Phil Kerpen is a free-market policy analyst and a former publisher of high school and college policy debate

Policy debate

Policy debate is a form of speech competition in which teams of two advocate for and against a resolution that typically calls for policy change by the United States federal government or security discourse...

 websites.

Policy analysis

Kerpen is a vice president at Americans for Prosperity

Americans for Prosperity

Americans for Prosperity is a Washington, D.C.–based political advocacy group. According to their literature, they promote economic policy that supports business, and restrains regulation by government...

. Until June 23, 2006, he was Policy Director for the Free Enterprise Fund, a United States free market

Free market

A free market is a competitive market where prices are determined by supply and demand. However, the term is also commonly used for markets in which economic intervention and regulation by the state is limited to tax collection, and enforcement of private ownership and contracts...

 advocacy group. Prior to that, Kerpen was a policy analyst for the Club for Growth

Club for Growth

The Club for Growth is a politically conservative 527 organization active in the United States of America, with an agenda focussed on taxation and other economic issues, and with an affiliated political action committee . The Club advocates lower taxes, limited government, less government spending,...

. Kerpen is a contributing editor for National Review Online, a writer for Fox News Opinion at FoxNews.com, and a frequent radio and television commentator on economic growth issues. He is the author of

Policy debate

Kerpen is the former publisher of several policy debate-related

Policy debate

Policy debate is a form of speech competition in which teams of two advocate for and against a resolution that typically calls for policy change by the United States federal government or security discourse...

 websites, including Cross-X, a web site for high school debaters, and eDebate, a discussion list for college policy debate.

Personal

A native of Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...

, Kerpen currently lives in Washington, DC with his wife Joanna and daughter Lilly. His brother is social media entrepreneur Dave Kerpen

Dave Kerpen

Dave Kerpen is an entrepreneur, author and former reality television personality. Kerpen first received media attention in the Boston sports market in the late 1990s and early 2000s for his unique vending sales strategies at professional sporting events...

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External links

• Official website at PhilKerpen.com
• (Astro)Turf Wars, Center for American Progress Action Fund, panel appearance, October 25, 2010
• National Review archive
• Fox News Opinion archive