An Interview with Adam Josefczyk, Co-founder and President, Forge Leadership Network

Many young conservatives have genuine conviction and real potential — but without personal formation, a trusted network, and professional mentoring, they never find their footing in the public arena. Forge Leadership Network was created to change that.

Our guest on this episode of Voices of Freedom is Adam Josefczyk, co-founder and President of Forge Leadership Network. Since founding Forge in 2014, Adam has built a pathway for emerging Christian conservative leaders through formation, friendship, and preparation for influence in politics, culture, and business. Through its Leadership Summit, Mentorship Academy, and a growing national network of Forge Fellows, Forge is turning a sense of calling into enduring impact in the public arena. Before Forge, Adam worked in public policy in Ohio and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Dayton.

Topics Discussed on this Episode:

• What Adam observed working in Ohio policy and politics — and the gap it revealed for young conservatives entering the public arena

• Why formation, friendship, and preparation must work together, and how the Forge Summit, Academy, and Network deliver all three

• How Forge measures success — and why placement in roles of real responsibility is the right standard

• The relationship between faith and political engagement, and the principles that guide how Forge navigates that tension

• What gives Adam hope about the next generation, where Forge is headed, and what it can offer young people who want to make a difference

At a time when faith is increasingly viewed as something to be kept out of public life, one of America's most compelling Jewish scholars and public intellectuals is making the opposite case — that religious liberty is not merely tolerated in America but is essential to its founding character and constitutional order.

Our guest on this episode of Voices of Freedom is Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York — the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States — and Director of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University. A Senior Fellow at Tikvah and a scholar who has lectured at the Vatican and at Christian institutions across America and Europe, Rabbi Soloveichik brings both rigorous scholarship and the natural authority of a congregational rabbi to the most urgent questions about faith, freedom, and the American experiment. His most recent book, Providence and Power: Ten Portraits in Jewish Statesmanship, explores the qualities of moral courage and virtue that great leaders have drawn from faith across centuries.

Rabbi Soloveichik is also a 2026 Bradley Prize winner.

Topics Discussed on this Episode:

• Rabbi Soloveichik's path from a distinguished rabbinic family to Princeton, the synagogue, and the public square

• What America's oldest Jewish congregation reveals about the relationship between faith and the American Founding

• The resurgence of antisemitism in the West and what it tells us about the fragility of freedom

• The case for religious liberty as essential — not incidental — to America's constitutional order

• What it means to receive a Bradley Prize

From the classroom to the halls of Congress, to international banking, and the public square, few Americans have made a more sustained and consequential case for economic freedom than our guest on this episode of Voices of Freedom.

Senator Phil Gramm taught economics at Texas A&M University for twelve years before serving in the United States Congress for more than two decades — first as a Representative from Texas, then as United States Senator. His legislative record includes the Gramm-Latta Budget, which reduced federal spending and paved the way for the Reagan tax cut; the Gramm-Rudman Act, which placed the first binding constraints on federal spending; and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which modernized the nation's banking, insurance, and securities laws. He is currently a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of The Myth of American Inequality and The Triumph of Economic Freedom. Senator Gramm is a 2026 Bradley Prize winner.

Topics Discussed on this Episode:

• Senator Gramm's path from the classroom to Congress

• The legislative legacy of the Gramm-Latta Budget, Gramm-Rudman Act, and Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act

• Whether Congress can recover a commitment to fiscal discipline

• How the country arrived at today's polarization over free enterprise and markets

• The case for economic freedom and what's at stake for the next generation