‘These Are All So Dumb’: Tucker Carlson Discusses ‘Comedy & Tragedy’ With YAF Spokesman Spencer Brown
Young America’s Foundation’s 2018-2019 ‘Comedy & Tragedy’ Report has grabbed headlines across the nation for its role in exposing the absurd and biased classes being offered at our nation’s prestigious institutions of higher learning. From Fox & Friends to Varney & Co. and the Washington Examiner to Townhall.com, people across the country have been surprised to […]
Statement On President Trump’s Promised Executive Order To Hold Schools Accountable For Violating First Amendment
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MARCH 5, 2019 RESTON, VA—President Trump’s promise of an executive order to prevent colleges and universities from receiving federal research funding when they ignore the U.S. Constitution is a welcome change after decades of bloated government sending billions of dollars to schools that violate the constitutional rights of their students. As has […]
‘Minnesota’s Finest Christian Education’: University of Northwestern Bans Pro-Life Star Parker
Continuing the troubling trend of Christian institutions banning prominent conservatives, the University of Northwestern in Minnesota has decided to ban a Young America’s Foundation lecture by renowned pro-life speaker Star Parker. Students in the University of Northwestern’s Young Americans for Freedom chapter (UNW YAF) have been working for months to host a prominent conservative to […]
GW YAF Named Chapter Of The Month For January
For their determination, courage, and ability to inspire their peers, The George Washington University YAF (GW YAF) has been named Chapter of the Month for January. Nearly every time Ben Shapiro is invited to speak, YAF chapters face an unrelenting wave of leftist intolerance from their school administrators, their radical peers, or both. From the […]
Stanford Leftists Plan Disruption Of D’Souza Lecture
Dinesh D’Souza is set to speak at Stanford Thursday as part of Young America’s Foundation’s ‘#FakeHistory Debunked’ lecture tour. But yet again, leftists on Stanford’s campus can’t handle the fact that a conservative is coming to speak. Flyers advertising the event have been repeatedly torn down, and one of the admitted vandals was caught on […]
UW-Milwaukee Levies New Restrictions On Conservative Students Hosting D’Souza Following Breakthrough Shapiro Event
When the conservative club at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee hosted Ben Shapiro through Young America’s Foundation’s Fred Allen Lecture Series last semester, it was a stunning success. More than 800 students packed the lecture hall while hundreds more patiently waited in a standby line for the chance to hear Shapiro in person. Despite threats of […]
YAF @ CPAC 2019
Ever since YAF leaders Frank Donatelli and Ron Robinson established the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) with the American Conservative Union in 1974, Young America’s Foundation and Young Americans for Freedom have been highlighting the work of conservative students and exposing the tactics of leftists in higher education over the last 40+ years. At CPAC […]
Health Plans At America’s Top 10 Colleges Cover Abortions, Refer Students To Planned Parenthood
In light of the passage of a bill in New York that overrides a previous ban on abortions past the 24-week mark and several other states proposing similarly radical measures to expand abortion, many pro-choice advocates are celebrating. On college campuses especially, the abortion movement continues. Often using the sanitized phrase “termination of pregnancy,” abortion […]
YAF Welcomes Karalee Geis To Team As Capitol Hill Outreach Director
Young America’s Foundation is pleased to announce Karalee Geis has joined our team as Capitol Hill Outreach Director. She first became familiar with YAF during her summer in the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation and was inspired to start a Young Americans for Freedom Chapter on campus at Samford University. The effort received […]
Vice President Pence Names YAF Alumnus & Former Reagan Ranch Director Marc Short As Chief Of Staff
Young America’s Foundation congratulates Marc Short on being named chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence. There are many, many graduates of Young America’s Foundation who have gone on to serve in key roles in our Movement and have accomplished so much for our cause. Marc’s professional successes run so deep, but he also […]
YAF’s 2018-2019 Comedy & Tragedy Report
Young America’s Foundation regularly reviews and audits course catalogs, textbook requirements, commencement speakers, and other key metrics that show the true state of higher education in America. These reports peel back the shiny veneer colleges and universities place on themselves in the name of “higher” education to reveal a stark reality: campuses devoid of intellectual […]
Orange Coast College Bans YAF Chapter’s Pro-Second Amendment Flag
This week, Orange Coast College banned students from the Young Americans for Freedom chapter from displaying a “Don’t Tread on Me” flag supporting the 2nd Amendment. Why…because the flag depicts two guns. On Wednesday, February 13, 2019, members of the Young Americans for Freedom chapter at Orange Coast College participated in a student organization recruitment fair. […]
Whitworth University YAF Named December Chapter Of The Month
For their ability to impact and influence their peers and promote conservative ideas on campus, Whitworth University Young Americans for Freedom (WU YAF) has been named Chapter of the Month for December. Conservative thought is not commonly found on the campus of Whitworth University, so on December 4, when WU YAF brought in New York […]
GCU Flip-Flops On Values, Invites Shapiro But Prohibits YAF
In a confusing statement revealed first to a meeting of the Grand Canyon University Young Americans for Freedom and then posted online Tuesday night, GCU has reversed its ban on Ben Shapiro, with a major caveat: Young America’s Foundation cannot be involved. This move from the embattled GCU administration, yet another change in their story, […]
Grand Canyon University Blocks Ben Shapiro
Administrators at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona, told members of GCU’s Young Americans for Freedom chapter that they would not “provide a venue” for Ben Shapiro’s planned speech, part of Young America’s Foundation’s Fred Allen Lecture Series. If this pathetic response sounds familiar, it should—that’s exactly what UC Berkeley administrators initially told students when […]
So You Wanna Host Ben Shapiro? The Ridiculous Hoops LMU YAF Has To Jump Through
When the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapter at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles began planning to host Ben Shapiro, the school immediately began throwing up roadblocks. The lecture, part of Young America’s Foundation’s exclusive Fred Allen Lecture Series, would be fast-tracked if a prominent leftist were booked. But because Shapiro is the […]
More Guns Make Schools Safer: Parkland Report Says Arm Teachers
A recent report by the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission has recommended arming school teachers to protect students. The 439-page report comes nearly a year after the shooting in Parkland, Florida that left seventeen dead and an additional seventeen injured. “All stakeholders—school districts, law enforcement, mental health providers, city and county governments, […]
YAF’s Pro-Columbus Petition Gets 3x More Signatures Than PC Police Effort
In a letter dated January 20, University of Notre Dame President Rev. John Jenkins announced that historic murals depicting Christopher Columbus would be hidden from view. Calling the 135-year-old artwork “perplexing,” Rev. Jenkins attacked their portrayal of Columbus as “beneficent explorer and friend of the native peoples” in his decision. Reportedly, a 2017 petition signed […]
Notre Dame Alum Removes Alma Mater From Will Over Columbus Mural Decision
In the wake of Notre Dame President John Jenkins’ inane decision to cover murals on campus depicting Christopher Columbus, one alumnus dispatched a letter to President Jenkins to express their disappointment. The alumnus subsequently notified the Notre Dame Young Americans for Freedom Chapter of the decision to cut ties with Notre Dame: “I am a […]
After Shapiro YAF Lecture, USC Student Senate Pursues More Regulations To Keep Conservatives Away
by Maxwell Brandon, USC Young Americans for Freedom Last fall, the USC Young Americans for Freedom (USC YAF) brought Ben Shapiro to campus as part of Young America’s Foundation’s Fred Allen Lecture Series. The event drew thousands of students, filling our campus’s largest venue to capacity with hundreds more having to be turned away after […]
Blaney on Brexit: What The Hell Has Happened?!
“Brexit means Brexit.” So said Theresa May when she secured election as leader of the Conservative Party after that joyous day when the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in June 2016. David Cameron, who had unsuccessfully led the campaign to remain in the EU, resigned in humiliation as Prime Minister. Mrs. May, […]
Notre Dame YAF Condemns Cowardly Decision To Cover Columbus Murals
On Sunday, University of Notre Dame President John Jenkins announced his decision to cover the murals of Christopher Columbus in the university’s iconic main building, the “Dome.” Grant Strobl (National Chairman of Young Americans for Freedom and student at Notre Dame Law School) and Luke Jones (Chairman of Young Americans for Freedom at the University […]
YAF Refuses To Back Down, Reaches 80,000+ With Shapiro Lecture at GW
“You’re free. Stop whining.” This was the thesis of Ben Shapiro’s address to a standing-room-only crowd at The George Washington University Thursday night. In his first stop of the spring semester on Young America’s Foundation’s exclusive Fred Allen Lecture Series, Shapiro reached more than 400 students in person while more than 80,000 watched the event […]
GW Leftists Threaten YAF For Hosting Ben Shapiro: ‘GET SECURITY’
In what has become an all-too-often occurrence on college campuses, leftists at the George Washington University posted signs threatening the GW YAF chapter emblazoned with: “HEY YAF…GET SECURITY” around an image of Ben Shapiro with a red “x” superimposed on his chest. When the posters were reported to campus authorities, they chose not to take […]
