On June 16, 1992, London's Daily Telegraph reported this astonishingly bold remark by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev: "Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind." Sadly, this line of thinking has become common today. Join us at Fado’s Irish Pub to hear Lawrence Reed, president of the Foundation of Economic Education, dispel the myth that Jesus was a socialist.
Lawrence Reed
Foundation for Economic Education
President
Lawrence W. Reed became president of the Foundation for Economic Education in 2008. Prior to that, he was founder and president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Michigan. He also taught economics and chaired the department of economics at Northwood University in Michigan from 1977 to 1984. He holds a B.A. in economics from Grove City College and an M.A. in history from Slippery Rock State University.
