The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation welcomes actor, writer, lawyer and commentator Ben Stein to deliver the Reagan Forum on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at 6:00 p.m. Tickets are $45 per person and include dinner. To reserve your seats, please visit www.reaganfoundation.org/cpa or call 805-522-2977.

Ben Stein attained early success as a speechwriter for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford before entering the entertainment field, becoming an actor, comedian, and Emmy Award-winning game show host. Mr. Stein also frequently writes commentaries on economic, political, and social issues, along with financial advice to individual investors. Prior to his presidential speechwriting, Mr. Stein was a poverty lawyer and then a trial lawyer for the Federal Trade Commission.

Mr. Stein’s columns can currently be read in The American Spectator, The Wall Street Journal and New York Magazine. He has written, co-written and published thirty books, including seven novels, largely about life in Los Angeles, and twenty-one nonfiction books, about finance and about ethical and social issue in finance, and also about the political and social content of mass culture.

He is also an extremely well known actor in movies, TV, and commercials. His part of the boring teacher in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was recently ranked as one of the fifty most famous scenes in American film.

Did the Stimulus Bill stimulate the economy? Once the federal law was implemented in February of 2009, which parts helped the economy and which parts did not? These are just a few of the topics which James Q. Wilson, the Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine, will explore when he delivers the Reagan Forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. This lecture is free to attend; however, reservations are required. Register by calling the Reagan Foundation at 805-522-2977 or online at www.reaganfoundation.org/cpa.

James Q. Wilson, who holds the nation’s highest honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, has enjoyed an extraordinary career, including twenty-five years at Harvard University. He was the James Collins Professor of Management and Public Policy at UCLA for a decade before his appointment at Pepperdine. The author or co-author of more than fifteen books, his most recent works include The Marriage Problem: How Our Culture Has Weakened Families, Moral Judgment and The Moral Sense. Others cover a wide variety of policy topics including urban problems, government regulation and bureaucracy, crime prevention, and delinquency among children.

Wilson has chaired and served on a number of national commissions including the White House Task Force on Crime, The National Advisory Commission on Drug Abuse Prevention, the Attorney General’s Task Force on Violent Crime, and the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. He is currently chairman of the Council of Academic Advisers of the American Enterprise Institute and has served on the boards of State Farm Mutual Insurance Company and Protection One. He is also a trustee of the RAND Corporation.

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