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Young America’s Foundation To Launch 2018 Art Laffer Campus Lecture Tour Young America’s Foundation (YAF) is excited to announce the launch of our 2018 Art Laffer campus lecture tour that will feature one of the world’s preeminent economists and most articulate champions of the free enterprise system. YAF’s Center for Entrepreneurship & Free Enterprise is […]
MISFIRE: GW Demands Conservative Students Cough Up Security Fee To Host Lecture On Second Amendment by Rick Santorum
Senator Rick Santorum, who is slated to speak at The George Washington University as part of YAF’s Fred Allen Lecture Series on November 29, is the latest YAF event to be targeted by PC thought police. Despite previously speaking at GW without incident, administrators cited the “national dialogue” and the “campus atmosphere” in their decision […]
YAF To Be The Exclusive Home Of Ben Shapiro’s 2018-2019 Campus Lecture Tour
The #1 Requested Speaker Partners with the #1 Conservative Youth Outreach Organization Young America’s Foundation (YAF), thanks to the generous support of Fred Allen, is excited to announce that YAF will be the exclusive home of New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro’s campus tour for the 2018-2019 school year. Now more than ever, conservative […]
YAF Brings Conservative Ideas To Stanford’s Embattled Campus
Last night, Young America’s Foundation sponsored a lecture with Robert Spencer as part of the Fred Allen Lecture Series. Yet again, the insecurity of leftist administrators and students was on full display as the fragile liberals at Stanford came to terms with the fact that a conservative was going to speak on their campus. In […]
YAF Grabs Headlines From Coast-To-Coast With Bold Campus Activism
Young America’s Foundation and bold conservative student activists have drawn media attention–much of it a sobering look at the state of free speech on many leftist campuses–from Florida to California this week. The Young Americans for Freedom at the University of’ Houston hosted David Horowitz, and intolerant leftists once again attempted to shut down conservative […]
Buffalo Young Socialists Panic, End Open Meeting When YAF Shows Up
Last week, a few members of the University at Buffalo Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapter attended an open meeting hosted by the newly founded UB chapter of Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA), which advances views that run opposite those described in YAF’s founding document, the Sharon Statement. As intelligent activists, the YAFers saw […]
University of Florida Leftists Resort To Vandalism In Lame Attempt To Stifle Pro-Life Messages
In yet another case of leftists ascribing to the ‘free speech for me, but not for thee’ mantra, students at the University of Florida have gone out of their way to erase, rip down, and otherwise deface pro-life messages shared on campus by the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapter. Ahead of University of Florida […]
D’SOUZA: Why the Berlin Wall Fell
Reagan's Cold War Strategy: "We win, they lose." #FreedomWeek pic.twitter.com/dbQzLkW7KI — YAF (@yaf) November 7, 2017 In October 1987 Ronald Reagan stood at the Brandenburg Gate and said, “General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization…tear down this wall.” Two years later, in what may […]
Shapiro, Swain, and Hannan Headline YAF’s Sold-Out Fall College Retreat
Fullly-subscribed student audience to rally with leading conservatives and walk in President Reagan’s footsteps during weekend-long retreat focused on freedom’s principles. Santa Barbara, CA—Student activists from around the country will come together with top conservatives including popular campus speaker Ben Shapiro, former Vanderbilt professor Carol M. Swain, and Brexit strategist and Member of European Parliament […]
Lawless Leftists Tear Down Robert Spencer Posters at Stanford
A shameless vandal posted videos of himself tearing down posters advertising Robert Spencer’s November 14 YAF lecture at Stanford. The video, posted to Snapchat, ends with a selfie accompanied by text that reads “PSA: plz go around and remove any islamaphobe invitations from your friendly college republicans” Sadly, this student’s behavior is typical for those […]
Why Celebrate Freedom Week?
Each year, two significant events are overlooked on college campuses—the November 9 anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and Veterans Day. Both occur during the same week and provide conservative students with excellent opportunities to build programs around these important days. On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell and led to the […]
YAF at Northwestern University: Advancing Free Enterprise and Exposing Socialism
Just yesterday, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation released its latest survey, Annual Report on U.S. Attitudes towards Socialism, which reveals that one in two American millennials would rather live in a socialist or communist country than a free market democracy. No, that’s not a typo. 51% of millennials claim they would rather live in […]
Academic Balance Cannot Be A One-Way Street
“I will be interested to see a justification to spending school money for this event. This is akin to bringing a leader of the Klan or ISIS to the school.” (Emphasis added). – Craig Hennigan, Truman State University What happens at schools when administrators learn that YAF is bringing a conservative speaker to address students […]
‘Support The Student Welfare, Not Hateful Rhetoric’: Stanford Leftists Attempt To Defund Robert Spencer YAF Lecture
Leftist students at Stanford University are showing their trademark intolerance of conservative ideas ahead of the YAF-sponsored Robert Spencer speech, part of the Fred Allen Lecture Series. “Stop Student Fees Going to Support Islamaphobic Speaker Event [SIGN PETITION + FORWARD WIDELY]” proclaims the subject line of an email sent to several student lists by Caleb […]
‘Free Speech Crisis Deniers’ Need A Reality Check
Students today are no stranger to protests taking place on their campuses. Higher education’s practice of infantilizing students—grown adults—with safe spaces, counseling if they encounter contrary ideas, and a litany of other leftist asylum activities has all but guaranteed routine protests. Helicopter administrators train students to react with violence to new or different ideas, rather […]
Saint Mary’s Kills Halloween Fun, Schedules ‘Cultural Appropriation & Halloween’ Lesson
UPDATE: Campus Leftists Prove Point of YAF’s Funeral for Halloween After national media attention was drawn to an email sent to students at Saint Mary’s college, students proved exactly why YAF started the “Funeral for Halloween.” Here are some of the responses from grown adults when their own intolerance is pointed out: Some […]
Make Your Voice Heard: Berkeley Seeks Input On New ‘Free Speech Policy’
The University of California, Berkeley is in the last week of an open comment period for a proposed free speech policy, but what the school calls “new” is just a rebranded version of the previous unconstitutional (and highly controversial) “high profile speakers policy,” and serves as a pretext for censoring conservative ideas on campus. Berkeley’s […]
Safe Zone’s Pledge to Silence Dissenters
“I will grow antennas not horns.” “I believe nobody is wrong, they are only different.” “I will transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness.” “I will label bottles, not people.” – KU Safe Zone Pledge Safe Zone training programs can be found on college campuses across the country. But the name, “Safe Zone,” is […]
YAF Statement On The Passing Of Helen DeVos
Young America’s Foundation is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Helen DeVos. “We remember Helen DeVos as a committed conservative who generously gave of her time and resources to ensure the next generation of Americans understood and appreciated conservative ideas,” stated Young America’s Foundation President Ron Robinson. “Her belief in President Reagan’s conviction […]
University of Utah Young Americans for Freedom Named September Chapter Of The Month
For their ability to impact and influence both students and people in their surrounding community, University of Utah Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) has been named Chapter of the Month for September. “You have to be a leader out there,” University of Utah YAF Chairman Dillon Clark points out as he reflects on guiding his […]
University Of North Carolina At Greensboro Violates Own Policy To Leverage Fee on D’Souza Lecture
UPDATE Thanks to the courage of conservative students and the concern of free speech loving citizens, administrators from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro were made to change their classification of next month’s campus lecture with Dinesh D’Souza. As of 5pm ET today, the powers that be at UNCG corrected the error they previously […]
Columbia Solicits Student Body For Ideas To Reject Conservative Speakers
Columbia University is reluctantly recognizing the First Amendment with an insulting email ahead of Young America’s Foundation’s campus lecture with Herman Cain, and in the wake of several speaking events being shouted down by intolerant leftists. The email sent to Columbia’s student body by Professor Suzanne B. Goldberg, the Executive Vice President for University Life, […]
University of Wisconsin Tries To Block Public From Pavlich Lecture
In a last-minute move, UW-Madison notified the school’s Young Americans for Freedom chapter that unless they found a faculty department sponsor before Tuesday, their campus lecture with Katie Pavlich would only be open to UW students. This ridiculously subjective rule runs against everything the First Amendment guarantees, and allows university faculty unfettered discretion in determining […]
Inane Leftists Plan ‘Penis Arts Fest’ To Protest Pavlich Lecture At The University Of Wisconsin
When the Young Americans for Freedom chapter at the University of Wisconsin—Madison announced they’d be hosting YAF alumna Katie Pavlich on October 10, wing nut leftists didn’t take long to plan a ridiculous protest. The “cocks not glocks” crowd announced “The Bonerfide Penis Arts Fest,” to be held at the same time Pavlich, a Fox […]
