‘We Don’t Give A F*ck What You’re Fine With’: Antifa Attempt To Shut Down YAF Chapter Meeting
Members of the “Progressive Youth Organization” (PYO), an Antifa-affiliated organization, disrupted a meeting of the University of Missouri—Kansas City Young Americans for Freedom chapter this week with a profanity-filled tirade. “Your shit is a platform for fascists,” one agitator yelled as she stormed the front of the room. “We don’t give a fuck what you’re fine […]
The Trump Tax Cuts: A Boon for College Students
By Ross Dubberly Shortly before Christmas of last year, President Trump signed into law the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” introducing the largest tax cuts since those of the Reagan administration in the ‘80s. Needless to say, these cuts were vilified by the Left. “As a historian of the Great Depression, I can say: I’ve […]
Leading Conservatives Celebrate 20 Years Of YAF’s Preservation Of Ronald Reagan’s Western White House
SANTA BARBARA, CALIF.—Twenty years ago this week, on April 21, 1998, Young America’s Foundation saved President Reagan’s beloved mountaintop ranch home from an uncertain future. Rancho del Cielo is one of America’s premier Presidential properties, serving as home to the Reagans for 25 years and the “Western White House” throughout the Reagan Presidency. The Reagan […]
Free College Isn’t Really Free
by Ross Dubberly “There is no such thing as a free lunch,” renowned economist Milton Friedman was fond of saying. Yet, the fallacy of freebies is perhaps more fashionable today than ever, especially among my peers at the University of Georgia and elsewhere. And one of the most enticing freebies is “free college.” But there […]
YAFing From Coast To Coast
As the spring semester starts to wrap up, conservative students are busier than ever on campuses. Yes, it’s true! In just one week YAF sponsored more than 20 breakthrough campus lectures. April 9: Burt Folsom at College of the Ozarks April 9: John Ashcroft at American University April 9: Bay Buchanan at University of Alabama-Huntsville April 10: Steve Forbes at College of the Ozarks April […]
Woman Claiming To Be University of Florida Faculty Member Vandalizes D’Souza Flyers In Attempt To Stifle Conservative Ideas
Epitomizing leftist intolerance, an individual claiming to be a librarian at the University of Florida took it upon herself to deface flyers for the Young Americans for Freedom chapter’s lecture with Dinesh D’Souza—part of the D’Souza Unchained Lecture Series—posted around the campus. Ahead of today’s Dinesh D’Souza campus lecture, YAF member Jarrod Rodriguez took to […]
Ithaca Leftist Accuses Jesse Watters Of Promoting Hatred, Calls For Protests
Ahead of Thursday’s Young America’s Foundation lecture with Jesse Watters at Ithaca College, one leftist student has taken it upon himself to attack Watters, the conservative students hosting the event, and America’s founders. “This is a disgusting representation of Ithaca College. Join me in taking action against this event and against bringing speakers to campus […]
YAF Announces 2018 GPA Redistribution Video Contest
Leftists are constantly urging conservatives to “pay their fair share” and insisting that “the 1%” need to have their wealth redistributed to those who don’t have as much. Well, now’s your chance to tell them to put their money—or in this case their grades—where their mouth is by challenging your peers with a petition to […]
University Of Tennessee Sex Week To Include ‘Black Liberation Through Sexual Pleasure’ and ‘Butt Stuff 2.0’
The University of Tennessee’s 2018 “Sex Week” promises to top their previous sex week events with a syllabus of programs that could make the most sexually-liberated blush. Sessions on “Black Liberation through Sexual Pleasure” and “Reproductive (In)Justice” are just the tip of this leftist sexcapade that also promises a drag show, cabaret, and “Sex Week […]
California ‘Refuse Fascism’ Groups Vow To Drive Kristan Hawkins Off Campus
Proving again that the anti-fascist crowd is (ironically) quite fascist, several “Refuse Fascism” groups in California have announced plans to oppose an upcoming Young America’s Foundation lecture featuring Kristan Hawkins on April 10. The radical leftists who oppose the event, hosted by the Young Americans for Freedom chapter at California State University—Los Angeles, are calling […]
Young Americans For Freedom Adds New Board Members To Guide Increasingly Influential Chapters
From the time Young Americans for Freedom was born with the drafting of the Sharon Statement in William F. Buckley, Jr.’s Connecticut home, young people have been integral to the leadership of YAF. As the visible presence of the Conservative Movement on their campuses, Young Americans for Freedom activists have carried forward our shared ideas […]
OP-ED: The Fight For Free Speech At Hobart And William Smith Colleges
by Katrina Willis, HWS Young Americans for Freedom If an explosive Ben Shapiro lecture at UC-Berkeley is like figure skating at the Winter Olympics, activism at Hobart and William Smith Colleges as a member of Young Americans for Freedom is like cross-country skiing. The stifling bias we face is not a flashy must-see event attracting […]
FONTOVA: Anti-NRA Student Walkout Features Che Guevara As Poster Child
by Humberto Fontova “About 1,400 students wearing orange shirts gathered on a hill at East Chapel Hill High School in North Carolina to listen as student organizers read the names of each of the Parkland victims…students gathered in discussion circles to talk about gun violence in America…”It’s really scary to me how in America we […]
February Chapter Of The Month: Virginia Tech Young Americans For Freedom
For their ability to plan, organize, and host a record setting event at their school, Virginia Tech Young Americans for Freedom (VT YAF) has been named chapter of the month for February. After hosting a number of successful Young America’s Foundation-sponsored lectures, VT YAF recognized that the student body at Virginia Tech had a burning […]
These Are The Pro-Freedom Students The Media Ignores
Anti-gun media outlets, and public officials continue to claim that American students are unanimously demanding their schools and communities become gun-free zones. But in taking for granted the fact that students are monolithically opposed to the Second Amendment, they ignore millions of students who recognize the importance of firearms used to protect them at school, […]
YAF Liberal March Madness: Round One Results
Young America’s Foundation’s Liberal March Madness competition is in full swing and the final results of round one matchups are in! YAF put together the Sweet 16 of the maddest liberals, leaving it up to you to vote for the maddest of them all via Twitter poll. With the completion of round one, we have […]
On ‘National Walk Out Day,’ Conservative Student Threatened With Arrest For Not Following Anti-2A Agenda
Andy Dalsin, a senior at New Prague High School in Minnesota, reported being confronted by administrators as his school took part in the ‘National Walk Out Day’ and threatened with being kicked off campus merely for having a sign that didn’t follow the anti-Second Amendment agenda being pushed. It read: “Guns don’t kill people, people […]
“Tolerant” Leftists Destroy Pro-Life Memorial In A Futile Attempt To Silence Conservatives
In yet another case of leftists’ utter disregard for conservatives’ free speech rights, students at Clemson University took the time to rip crosses out of the ground and vandalize signs that the Clemson Young Americans for Freedom chapter had put up to remember all of the lives lost to abortion. The Clemson YAF chapter put […]
YAF Announces New Student Initiatives To Promote Second Amendment Freedoms On High School Campuses
As high schools across America plan walk outs in protest of legal gun ownership, a freedom enshrined as a God-given right in the Constitution, Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) National Chairman Grant Strobl announced two new initiatives for freedom-loving students: I am excited to announce two initiatives for hundreds of high school Young Americans for […]
Super Bowl Champ Burgess Owens Checks The Reality Of Whining Leftists At HWS
Super Bowl champion and bold conservative Burgess Owens spoke at Hobart and William Smith Colleges this week as part of Young America’s Foundation’s nationwide campus lecture program. After an inspiring speech on leadership, the importance of conservative ideas, and an optimistic outlook on America’s future, Owens took questions from the packed student audience. One student […]
#LadiesWhoLead: YAF Edition
While the Left prides itself on preaching the ideals of feminism and equality, conservative women across the country have been working to defy the stereotypes, strengthen themselves as leaders, and shatter the glass ceilings put in place by the Left. Many of these women are the leaders of our YAF chapters. As the Left claims […]
YAF Sues Kennesaw State University For Discriminatory Fee Charged For ‘Controversial’ Pavlich Lecture
The Kennesaw State University chapter of Young Americans for Freedom (the chapter affiliate of Young America’s Foundation) filed a complaint in federal court Monday against administrators at Kennesaw State University over the school’s assessment of viewpoint-discriminatory security fees for the upcoming KSU Young Americans for Freedom lecture with Katie Pavlich.University administrators are demonstrating their anti-conservative […]
THROWBACK: YAF’s First National Conservative Student Conference
Foreign policy concerns dominated the late 1970s as the Cold War escalated and communists were taking over higher education. Young America’s Foundation’s goal was to give young conservative activists the education they needed to deal with the academic Left and defend their ideas in the classroom. James Taylor, a current member of Young America’s Foundation’s […]
Shapiro Brings Conservatism To Hotbed Of Liberalism
You will be surprised by what happened Monday night at the University of Minnesota. With the help of Young America’s Foundation, this could be your campus! A packed hall of eager young people turned out to engage in an academic program on the value of America’s free market system and the importance of free speech. […]
