Founder of the "The Independent Institute" to speak on April 4

• April 2, 2012 5:00am

David J. Theroux, founder of The Independent Institute and publisher of The Independent Review, will be the guest speaker for the Smith Center for Private Enterprise Studies lecture series on April 4. He will present on "Free Market Alternatives to Leviathan." The Independent Institute is a non-profit, non-partisan, scholarly research and educational organization that sponsors in-depth studies of critical social and economic issues.

Theroux is the editor of the books The Energy Crisis, Private Rights and Public Lands (with P. Truluck) and Politics and Tyranny, and his articles and reviews have appeared in USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Investor's Business Daily, Washington Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Dallas Morning News, Insight, and other publications. He has appeared on ABC, MSNBC, Fox Business Network, CNN, C-SPAN, NPR, Voice of America, and other local, national, and international TV and radio networks and programs. Read David Theroux bio.

The Smith Center lecture series is free and open to the public. Event starts at 2 p.m. in room 311 of the old University Union.

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