Ed Feulner was a free-market conservative and fierce anti-communist back in the 1970s, long before it was cool. He invented the modern-day think tank, taking it from the days of stodgy 200-page tomes that lay gathering dust on bookshelves and read by few, to providing just-in-time, influential, hard-hitting studies delivered into the hands of the policymakers that mattered.

Among his many contributions to advancing freedom and free enterprise was to train hundreds of today’s leading voices in the conservative movement – including some of the thinkers and activists at Unleash Prosperity.  Heritage taught young talent how to be relevant and impactful – something our billion-dollar universities don’t do.

He believed that “people are policy” and that’s a lesson that this so-far successful Trump administration has taken to heart. His legacy lives on.