THE SPIRIT OF LIBERTY

Summer Campus is for undergraduate students, graduate students, and recent graduates who want to explore political philosophy, economics, and the foundations of free and prosperous societies. You don’t need to arrive with a defined worldview, you need to arrive with genuine intellectual curiosity and a willingness to engage.

No specific background is required. Application questions are designed to assess genuine curiosity and the ability to reflect on ideas, not prior knowledge of any particular school of thought. If you’ve thought about questions like what makes a society just, how do economies work, or what governments should and shouldn’t do, you’re the right fit.

For most of human existence, across every civilization, every continent, every century, the default condition of human life was poverty, scarcity, and early death. Not as an exception. As the rule. Generation after generation lived and died within sight of the same horizon their grandparents had known, with little reason to expect anything different.

And then, in a brief window of time, in a handful of places, a few ideas broke through. Ideas about the dignity of the individual. About the limits of power. About what happens when ordinary people are free to think, trade, and build without asking permission. Ideas so radical that the people who first articulated them were considered dangerous. Ideas so powerful that once they took root, the world was never the same.

Summer Campus explores this extraordinary trend shaping the last 250 years.

The three tracks look at this phenomenon through the lenses of philosophy, politics, and economics.

All applications must be submitted by June 5, 2026.

Check the scholarship box on your application. Awards are based on the quality of your written responses and communicated by email after acceptance.

Business casual for all sessions and events.

Submit your receipts to FEE staff after the event. Reimbursement of up to $500 is available for accepted participants.