Edward Hudgins

Edward Hudgins is founder of the Human Achievement Alliance. He’d been developing this project idea some years ago, finally bringing it to fruition in 2020. He has been fascinated by science and technology since working as a high school intern at NASA-Goddard during the Apollo 11 moonshot.

He recognizes the potential of exponential technology in information, biotech, nanotech, AI and robotics to usher in an era of undreamed of prosperity with long, healthy lives. But he also sees the need to revolutionize our antiquated education and to remove government barriers and disincentives that block innovation and entrepreneurship ship. As important, he sees the need to replace the pessimism, nihilism, anger and malevolence that dominates our culture with optimism, purpose, joy in achievement and vision of a benevolent future.

Hudgins has served as research director at the Heartland Institute, commissioning, fact-checking and editing policy papers on energy and environment, healthcare, education, and taxes and regulations. His own research, podcasts, speeches and media work focused especially on the need to revamp the current government certification process for new medical treatments, labor regulations, and current failing schooling system.

Before Heartland, he served in various roles at The Atlas Society, director of advocacy, executive director, and senior scholar, promoting open Objectivism, the philosophy of reason, achievement, individualism, and freedom. He examined the intersection of politics, values, and culture, with a special emphasis on the need for a human achievement culture. In his book, The Republican Party Civil War: Will Freedom Win?, he criticized the GOP’s drift away from advocating individual liberty and free markets.