TFAS supporters, friends and local alumni are invited to join TFAS for a dinner and discussion featuring Robert Lawson of Southern Methodist University, on Monday, September 29, 2025. Mr. Lawson will share a fascinating lecture on "The Evidence is Clear: Socialism is Not Healthy for People and Other Living Things."

Event Details:
Monday, September 29, 2025
Wisconsin Club

Attire: Business 
Parking: Complimentary Valet Parking

RSVP:
Please RSVP by Wednesday, September 24.

To register, please follow these steps below:

  1. Select individual registration and add your full name, email address and the number of guests. 
  2. Select "add to cart," then click start checkout. 
  3. After you fill out the information for your registration, click "submit information." 
  4. If you are registering more than one person, the final page will show your name and email address as the primary contact.  Underneath your information will be a space to add your guest(s) name and email(s).  You will have to add each guest separately here.
  5. Finally, select "save changes."
Please contact Ed Turner at [email protected] or 202.714.0272 if you have any questions.

ABOUT ROBERT LAWSON:

Robert Lawson is the Jerome M. Fullinwider Centennial Chair in Economic Freedom and director of the Bridwell Institute for Economic Freedom in the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University.  He is a founding co-author of the Fraser Institute's Economic Freedom of the World annual report and co-author of the Amazon best, Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World.  He is past-president of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, a Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute, and a member of the Mont Pelerin Society.  He has won the Adam Smith Award from the Association of Private Enterprise Education.  


ABOUT TFAS:
The Fund for American Studies (TFAS) is an educational nonprofit that is developing courageous leaders inspired and equipped to protect and advance the ideas of individual liberty, personal responsibility, and economic freedom in their communities and throughout the world. By offering a portfolio of more than 20 academic programs, fellowships and seminars, the TFAS Journey helps cultivate future leaders from high school, all the way through to their university studies and professional careers. 

TFAS builds intellectual rigor and sustained relationships over time that result in deep impact and long-term change. After more than 50 years of programs, the evidence of TFAS’s success is clear. TFAS alumni are the leaders our nation needs right now and, in the decades to come. Today, there are nearly 49,000 TFAS alumni making a difference in their communities and throughout the world by upholding the values essential to the preservation and success of a free society.