Lessons for Liberty.

• Position: List - Lawrence W. Reed - Brief article

Lawrence W. Reed is the president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), widely considered to be America's first liberty-oriented think tank. The group was started in 1946 by Leonard Read (no relation), who is most famous for authoring of a vivid celebration of global trade and the division of labor, "I, Pencil." Today FEE publishes The Freeman and hosts seminars for high school and college students.

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Reed has been an advocate for liberty since 1968, when at age 14 he bought a bus ticket to Pittsburgh to protest the USSR's invasion of Czechoslovakia by joining the Young Americans for Freedom in burning a Soviet flag, At Freedom Fest 2009 in Las Vegas, Editor in Chief Matt Welch...