This is the second part of an edited <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/michael-knowles-live-at-yaf-ordo-amoris-the-hierarchy-of-political-love" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speech</a>, titled “‘Ordo Amoris’: The Hierarchy of Political Love,” delivered by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-michael-knowles-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Knowles</a> at the YAF Freedom Conference in San Diego, California.
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Saint Thomas’ reasoning is, as always, clear and persuasive in his discussions of the order of charity. In the “Summa Theologiae,” Secunda Secundae, Question 26, he writes, “There must needs be some order in things loved out of charity, which order is in reference to the first principle of that love, which is God.” This expression alone proves editor of The Yale Review James Surowiecki had no idea what he was talking about when he <a href="https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1885302779058557080" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> that the ordo amoris is not in the Gospels.
Not only is the ordo amoris in the Gospels, but it is also the principle articulated in the most famous line of the Gospels, <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2022%3A37-39&amp;version=ESV" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matthew 22:37-39</a>: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
There is, in other words, an order of charity — a hierarchy of love — and this order is the very foundation of Christian morality. We must love God first, and only then and upon that basis do we love everything else. And this order does not just comprise two categories. It isn’t just “God” and “everyone else.”
We find further scriptural evidence of the order of charity in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Timothy%205%3A8&amp;version=RSV" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1 Timothy 5:8</a>: “If any one does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his own family, he has disowned the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” A man does not necessarily disown the faith — he is not necessarily worse than an unbeliever — if he does not care for some random guy on the other side of the world. We have greater obligations to those who are closest to us.
This moral insight is attested to both by philosophy and religion — reason and revelation — and yet many liberals deny it. And we know they deny, not just because of their snarky tweets about JD Vance, but also from social science. Shortly after the ordo amoris debate kicked off, a graph went viral on social media.
<div id="attachment_886629" style="width: 678px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-886629" class="wp-image-886629 size-full" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/41467_2019_12227_Fig5_HTML.jpg" alt="Heatmaps indicating highest moral allocation by ideology, Study 3a. Source data are provided as a Source Data file. Note. The highest value on the heatmap scale is 20 units for liberals, and 12 units for conservatives. Moral circle rings, from inner to outer, are described as follows: (1) all of your immediate family, (2) all of your extended family, (3) all of your closest friends, (4) all of your friends (including distant ones), (5) all of your acquaintances, (6) all people you have ever met, (7) all people in your country, (8) all people on your continent, (9) all people on all continents, (10) all mammals, (11) all amphibians, reptiles, mammals, fish, and birds, (12) all animals on earth including paramecia and amoebae, (13) all animals in the universe, including alien lifeforms, (14) all living things in the universe including plants and trees, (15) all natural things in the universe including inert entities such as rocks, (16) all things in existence. SOURCE: “Ideological differences in the expanse of the moral circle.” Adam Waytz, Ravi Iyer, Liane Young, Jonathan Haidt, Jesse Graham. National Center for Biotechnology Information. National Library of Medicine. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31558713/" width="668" height="281" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/41467_2019_12227_Fig5_HTML.jpg 668w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/41467_2019_12227_Fig5_HTML-300x126.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px" />SOURCE: “Ideological differences in the expanse of the moral circle.” Adam Waytz, Ravi Iyer, Liane Young, Jonathan Haidt, Jesse Graham. National Center for Biotechnology Information. National Library of Medicine.</div>
It’s from a 2019 <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31558713/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> titled, “Ideological Differences in the Expanse of the Moral Circle.” The graph depicts heat maps “indicating highest moral allocation by ideology.” The “moral circle rings” extend from the center outward. Care for “your immediate family” is in the center, followed by “all of your extended family,” then “all of your closest friends,” then “all of your friends (including distant ones),” then your acquaintances, people you’ve ever met, your countrymen, people on your continent, all people, all mammals, all other animals, all living creatures (including amoebae), all potential life in the universe (including aliens), all living things (including plants and trees), all non-living things (including rocks), and finally all things in existence.
The study found that conservatives, being normal, tend to care more about the things closest to them; they tend to care more about their immediate families than they care about rocks. Liberals, being the sort of people who hug trees and hate their dads, tend not to care more about things closer to them. The study found that “the more liberal people were, the more they allocated equally to humans and non-humans.” A distinguishing feature of Right-wingers is that they are more likely “to morally prioritize humans over nonhumans.”
Some libs have attempted to argue that conservatives simply misunderstand the study. They argue the study shows that conservatives don’t care more about their families than liberals do; it’s just that liberals care more generally. Now, even if that were true — and it’s a perfectly plausible hypothesis given liberals’ frequent inability to control their emotions — it would still be extremely disordered to care more about strangers than about one’s own parents. Even if they cared more overall — which, it turns out, they don’t.
Liberals really do care more about rocks and trees than they do about their own families. We don’t need a chart or study to show us that. Just ask a liberal about climate change and abortion. Liberals will rend their garments over environmental threats to the coral reef, but they’ll dance in the streets to celebrate the murder of their own children through abortion.
And, it turns out, the study shows as much. Because the study “constrained the number of units that participants could assign to each group, forcing participants to distribute moral concern in a zero-sum fashion” (i.e., the more concern they allocate to one circle, the less they can allocate to another circle). And the researchers did this because research suggests that’s how people really do distribute “empathy and moral concern.” Of course: It’s a finite world. We only have so many hours to worry. We only have so many tears to shed.
But just to prove how deep this moral perversion runs on the political Left, the researchers conducted another study to test what would happen if they did not constrain people to zero-sum moral thinking. And what they discovered was that “even when participants’ allocations were not constrained, the same pattern replicated.” Conservatives, the researchers showed, exhibit “greater concern and preference for family relative to friends, the nation relative to the world … and humans relative to non-humans.”
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So what conclusion are we to draw from this? Is it just a matter of preference? “Conservatives love their family and friends; liberals love trees and rocks” — de gustibus non disputandum est! No accounting for taste! I don’t think so. Any reasonable person knows that one should care more for his children than for rocks and trees. If liberals do not, it is because they have made a moral error.
And the liberals didn’t even necessarily fall into this moral error because they’re wicked. More likely, I think, they fall into it because they’re trying (and failing) to be good. I suspect most of the time it actually comes from a place of love. But that love is misplaced. It’s out of order. And disordered love tends to evil, just as the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
G.K. Chesterton explains the phenomenon with regard to his friend, the socialist atheist George Bernard Shaw.
“Bernard Shaw,” Chesterton <a href="https://www3.nd.edu/~afreddos/courses/439/orthodoxy2-3.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writes</a>, “has a heroically large and generous heart; but not a heart in the right place. And this is so of the typical society of our time. The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues.”
“When a religious scheme is shattered,” he concludes, “it is not merely the vices that are let loose. The vices are, indeed, let loose, and they wander and do damage. But the virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage. The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad.”
Our nation’s — our whole civilization’s — religious scheme has obviously been shattered. The vice president invoked Thomas Aquinas, and our political elites were left drooling and scratching their heads.
The scheme has been shattered, the virtues have wandered, and these wandering virtues — these errant loves — have caused our present political ills. The only remedy is to restore order — not just to our streets and our communities but to our loves — if for no other reason than that without order, without caring for ourselves and our own, we can’t properly care for anyone else either.

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Restoring The Order Of Love: The Remedy To Political Ills

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Daily Wire host and author Michael Knowles gave a speech titled, “We Are So Back: How The Libs Lost Everything,” at the University of Iowa Monday night, where he was met with dozens of protesters. 
The protesters at the event, which was hosted by Young America’s Foundation (YAF), <a href="https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/2024/11/12/protesters-gather-on-ui-campus-as-daily-wires-michael-knowles-visits/76223743007/?taid=6733b746f5c1290001e1b6f2&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">chanted</a>, “F*** you, fascists,” &#8220;Transphobes you better beware, we&#8217;re not going anywhere,&#8221; &#8220;We will not be silenced by transphobic violence,” and other left-wing slogans. 
Knowles reacted to some of the protests online, writing, “Do all my protesters have COVID?” — a reference to the many students wearing masks. 
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Do all my protesters have COVID? <a href="https://t.co/Jrry11KtC7">pic.twitter.com/Jrry11KtC7</a>
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1856197178214986178?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
During the speech, Knowles also addressed the protests that had been taking place at the university leading up to his speech. Knowles referenced a reporter who claimed it was the conservative who “incited” the pushback on campus, which included vandalism. 
“Apparently, my very presence stirs in liberals an irrepressible urge to commit violence,” Knowles mocked. “How dare I! How dare all of us conservatives ever speak!” 
Transitioning to the media, Knowles explained how the “libs lost everything” this election cycle. 
&#8220;How did the libs lose everything? I think the press, as much as any other person or institution &#8230; deserves credit for the landslide victory last Tuesday,” he said.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@michaeljknowles</a>: &#8220;How did the libs lose everything? I think the press, as much as any other person or institution&#8230;deserves credit for the landslide victory last Tuesday. The press&#8230;overplayed its hand.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/oLq52Hjyzx">pic.twitter.com/oLq52Hjyzx</a>
— YAF (@yaf) <a href="https://twitter.com/yaf/status/1856144838078370036?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
Knowles also talked about transgender politics, which has been dubbed the “sleeper issue” of the 2024 election. 
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&#8220;The trans issue has taken on such national prominence because it reveals the extent to which our political elites are willing to lie to us,” Knowles said. “The transgender issue revealed that the Left had lost common sense.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@michaeljknowles</a>: &#8220;The trans issue has taken on such national prominence because it reveals the extent to which our political elites are willing to lie to us&#8230;The transgender issue revealed that the left had lost the common sense.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/bR6ve8fpAV">pic.twitter.com/bR6ve8fpAV</a>
— YAF (@yaf) <a href="https://twitter.com/yaf/status/1856148570816024988?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
The trans issue was further discussed after one female student suggested Knowles and other conservatives are mean to people who say they are transgender and need to merely open their hearts. Knowles rejected the premise and explained why transgenderism, as the Left understands it, does not actually exist since men cannot be women and women cannot be men. 
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&#8220;&#8216;Transgenderism is normal&#8217; seems to undercut the transgender ideology.&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@michaeljknowles</a> responds to transgender advocate. <a href="https://t.co/t6EkSSjnHw">pic.twitter.com/t6EkSSjnHw</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1856152348193693783?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
WATCH the full speech <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/qsCgSoP3uHs?si=bS7aHVbuZII1bfGS" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HERE</a>.

‘F*** You, Fascists!’: Michael Knowles Addresses Protests, Trans Issues In Campus Speech

‘F*** You, Fascists!’: Michael Knowles Addresses Protests, Trans Issue During Speech At UI

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An employee at the University of California Los Angeles was filmed ripping down posters — put up to advertise Ben Shapiro&#8217;s speech on Monday — just hours before the Daily Wire editor emeritus was scheduled to take the stage at his alma mater.
Young America&#8217;s Foundation, which is hosting Shapiro for an event on Monday at 6:30 p.m. PT, posted a video on X showing a university employee tearing down the Shapiro speech posters, saying that his boss told him &#8220;to take flyers down.&#8221; The man refused to give the name of his supervisor, saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m doing my job, what they told me to do, so you have a good day.&#8221;
WATCH:
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Why don’t UCLA administrators want students to know YAF is bringing <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@benshapiro</a> to campus tonight? <a href="https://t.co/XXbEuPM5zw">pic.twitter.com/XXbEuPM5zw</a>
&mdash; YAF (@yaf) <a href="https://twitter.com/yaf/status/1848427954281582642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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It&#8217;s not the first time UCLA&#8217;s administration has attempted to get in the way of Shapiro&#8217;s YAF event. Last week, university bureaucrats forced YAF to shut down its Eventbrite page, where people could acquire tickets for Shapiro&#8217;s speech, and forced YAF to redirect attendees to UCLA&#8217;s main ticketing office, RedState <a href="https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2024/10/17/exclusive-uclas-attempts-to-shut-down-planned-ben-shapiro-speech-at-yaf-chapter-n2180679" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
According to RedState, UCLA taking over the ticketing means YAF cannot know in advance &#8220;if people who are known agitators or security threats are registering, or what efforts are being made to ensure that a bunch of lefties don&#8217;t gobble up the 1,200 available tickets then no-show the free event.&#8221;
UCLA has also rejected YAF&#8217;s request for a standby line, which would help the group ensure that those who want to attend the event can get in while preventing leftist students from filling the event space and then staging a massive walkout.
YAF&#8217;s lawyers wrote a letter to UCLA, stating, &#8220;When pressed, UCLA has not stated any reason whatsoever for this unreasonable stance, other than to cite to its own policy number 862, which simply states that for &#8216;major events,&#8217; (i.e., events presenting disfavored points of view that may result in counter-protests), &#8216;[n]o standby line will be allowed unless advance approval [is] provided by UCLA Fire Department and with limited standby Tickets offered,&#8217; without providing any justification for this limitation or explanation as to why approval has not been given in this particular case.&#8221;
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&#8220;Given UCLA’s past conduct discriminating against the expression of conservative and pro-Israel points of view &#8230; it is clear that the refusal to approve the use of the standby line procedure exacerbates the unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination that UCLA engages in,&#8221; the letter continues. &#8220;Moreover, UCLA owes a constitutional duty to impose only reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions on speech. There is nothing reasonable about UCLA’s refusal to approve a procedure that has been used by all of its peers in the university community to great effect, and without any appreciable harm to any university’s interests.&#8221;
Shapiro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-slams-ucla-as-a-woke-trash-heap-ahead-of-campus-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blasted</a> UCLA in a thread posted to X on Monday, writing that it &#8220;has forgotten what it’s supposed to be&#8221; and is plagued by “scandals of plagiarism, DEI, riots, furries, BDSM, womxn, and ‘monsterf***ers.”
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Tonight, I’ll take the stage at UCLA. Before I do, let’s review how my once-elite undergraduate alma mater became a woke trash heap drowning in scandals of plagiarism, DEI, riots, furries, BDSM, womxn, and “monsterf*ckers.” 🧵
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1848422204440027217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Before taking the stage to speak on campus at the University of California Los Angeles, Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro blasted his alma mater on Monday, writing that it &#8220;has forgotten what it&#8217;s supposed to be.&#8221;
Shapiro will speak at a <a href="https://yaf.org/events/ben-shapiro-at-ucla/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Young America&#8217;s Foundation</a> event at UCLA on Monday night, a speech that has already generated controversy on campus and among the UCLA administration. In a thread posted to X on Monday, Shapiro slammed UCLA and its &#8220;scandals of plagiarism, DEI, riots, furries, BDSM, womxn, and &#8216;monsterf***ers.&#8221;
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Tonight, I’ll take the stage at UCLA. Before I do, let’s review how my once-elite undergraduate alma mater became a woke trash heap drowning in scandals of plagiarism, DEI, riots, furries, BDSM, womxn, and “monsterf*ckers.” 🧵
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1848422204440027217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Back in March, I exposed the state of the formerly prestigious UCLA medical school, which now mandates your future surgeons learn about &#8216;Indigenous resistance,&#8217; &#8216;white supremacy,&#8217; &#8216;two-spirits,&#8217; and whatever &#8216;womxn&#8217; are,&#8221; Shapiro wrote. He added that shortly after he exposed the university&#8217;s focus on woke concepts for medical students, Daily Wire reporter Luke Rosiak <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dei-official-at-ucla-school-of-medicine-massively-plagiarized-her-dissertation-on-dei" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> that UCLA Medical School&#8217;s head of diversity, equity, and inclusion &#8220;only published a single paper — her Ph.D. dissertation on how colleges should create larger DEI programs — and it was plagiarized.&#8221;
&#8220;You might think this is why nearly 50% of UCLA medical students are failing basic competency tests, but it’s not. Sources blame Jennifer Lucero, the dean of admissions, and her racist, anti-white and anti-Asian affirmative action policies,&#8221; Shapiro continued. &#8220;Not only did UCLA seemingly allow the dean of admissions to discriminate, an accounting professor named Gordon Klein was suspended because he wouldn’t. Klein rejected demands by students to show &#8216;leniency with black students&#8217; in grading and had to subsequently sue the school.&#8221;
The Daily Wire host wrote that &#8220;walking across campus&#8221; at UCLA as a Jew was &#8220;impossible&#8221; just months ago as anti-Israel student protesters were allowed to block Jewish students from walking to their classes.
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&#8220;These anti-American, anti-Western, anti-Jewish Hamas apologists were allowed to occupy main centers of campus, vandalize, and attack their peers and police for weeks while normal students saw their education go up in smoke as tuition prices skyrocket,&#8221; Shapiro added.
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7/ Just 5 months ago, walking across campus to Ackerman — where I&#39;m speaking tonight — would have been impossible as a Jew after UCLA allowed historically &amp; morally illiterate Hamas sympathizers to occupy access points &amp; block Jews from passing through.<a href="https://t.co/sGXbFEviv4">pic.twitter.com/sGXbFEviv4</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1848422217744597377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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9/ These anti-American, anti-Western, anti-Jewish Hamas apologists were allowed to occupy main centers of campus, vandalize, and attack their peers and police for weeks while normal students saw their education go up in smoke as tuition prices skyrocket.<a href="https://t.co/zvzVIGMZan">pic.twitter.com/zvzVIGMZan</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1848422222668410964?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Meanwhile, a UCLA student magazine is upset &#8220;about the lack of acceptance towards the &#8216;furry&#8217; community&#8221; and obsessed with &#8220;kink.&#8221;
&#8220;If you’re willing to pay $42,000 to $76,000 a year for you or your child to attend UCLA, they, too, can dose up on &#8216;freak fuel,&#8217; become a &#8216;monsterf***er,&#8217; and change their pronouns to &#8216;xey/xem&#8217; while they &#8216;transmutate&#8217; themselves. Money well spent,&#8221; Shapiro wrote.
&#8220;In the days leading up to my @YAF speech tonight, the Administration paid to properly educate these &#8216;freaks&#8217; has instead spent their time trying to derail my speech. They shut down ticketing, disrupted security plans, and left attendance open to agitator sabotage,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Sad as it is to see what UCLA has become, I’m looking forward to seeing the men and women of LA tonight at my speech. In accordance with our Q&amp;A policy, those who disagree with me may cut to the front of the Q&amp;A line. So, perhaps we’ll see some womxn and furries, too.&#8221;

Ben Shapiro Slams UCLA As ‘A Woke Trash Heap’ Ahead Of Campus Speech

Ben Shapiro Slams UCLA As 'A Woke Trash Heap' Ahead Of Campus Speech

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A new poll commissioned by the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/young-americas-foundation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Young America’s Foundation</a> found that the economy is the number one concern for college and high school students as President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> remains unpopular among the demographic.
The poll, conducted by Echelon Insights, found that high school and college students overwhelmingly see the economy as the top concern, more than issues like abortion or the climate. The survey examined the views of 821 high school students and 804 college students from June 4 to June 9.
Of those surveyed, 44% of college students and 48% of high school students said the economy was their number one concern. In 2020, college students were a crucial demographic for Biden with an <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/539588-college-students-turned-out-in-droves-for-biden-heres-what-they-want-in/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">estimated</a> 61% of young people (ages 18-29) casting a vote for Biden.
“Despite the Left’s never-ending focus on ‘progressive’ social issues, students are largely indifferent. Only 12% of high school students and 25% of college students consider abortion to be a top concern, while racial issues and LGBTQ+ ‘rights’ are even less of a priority,” YAF said in a <a href="https://yaf.org/news/new-yaf-poll-students-prioritize-economy-political-integrity-over-leftist-social-issues/">statement</a>.
Other top issues for students included school safety, political corruption, and health care.
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Inflation has been a persistent issue under Biden, with elevated food, gas, and housing prices hampering the economy. Biden’s popularity among young people has also plunged since his inauguration in January 2021.
According to the poll, just 30% of college students and 32% of high school students approve of Biden. Those numbers are down from 62% and 58% respectively in 2021. Of college students who identify as liberal, just 42% approve of Biden’s performance.
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The survey found that 63% of college students, a critical demographic for Biden’s re-election campaign, are not very or not confident at all in Biden’s ability to be an effective leader when it comes to young people.
Students were also polled on a range of policy issues from immigration to women&#8217;s sports with strong majorities saying it was unfair for males who identify as females to compete in women&#8217;s sports. Sixty-three percent of high schoolers and 60% of college students said it would be unfair at any level for a male identifying as a female to compete in a women&#8217;s athletic competition.
“Our polling shows the biggest issue young people care about right now is the economy,” said former Wisconsin GOP governor and Young America’s Foundation President Scott Walker. “It’s crucial that YAF continues to teach high school and college students the timeless principles of individual liberty and the free market so that future generations ensure the continued success of our great nation.”

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The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) blocked a pro-Israel event from happening on Wednesday, according to the conservative student group hosting the event.
The student group, UCLA&#8217;s Young America&#8217;s Foundation (YAF) chapter, <a href="https://yaf.org/news/ucla-pulls-plug-on-pro-israel-yaf-event-in-unconstitutional-move-to-placate-pro-hamas-radicals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://yaf.org/news/ucla-pulls-plug-on-pro-israel-yaf-event-in-unconstitutional-move-to-placate-pro-hamas-radicals/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1715985570476000&amp;usg=AOvVaw25oAi27VaQ5Jmp_zIUVzOb">accused</a> the university of caving to pressure from &#8220;pro-Hamas campus radicals&#8221; who have engaged in &#8220;violent&#8221; protests and encampments for weeks.
The event was slated to begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday. The featured speaker was author and counter-Jihad expert Robert Spencer.
However, on the day of the event, the YAF team discovered that the doors to the event room were locked, the student chairman of UCLA&#8217;s YAF chapter, Matthew Weinberg told The Daily Wire.
When they contacted university officials, they were informed that their event would need to be relocated to a &#8220;very old and inconvenient&#8221; location on campus that is much less trafficked, Weinberg said. This was an &#8220;unacceptable last minute change that would have significantly impacted the event’s attendance and impact,&#8221; YAF said in a <a href="https://yaf.org/news/ucla-pulls-plug-on-pro-israel-yaf-event-in-unconstitutional-move-to-placate-pro-hamas-radicals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://yaf.org/news/ucla-pulls-plug-on-pro-israel-yaf-event-in-unconstitutional-move-to-placate-pro-hamas-radicals/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1715985570476000&amp;usg=AOvVaw25oAi27VaQ5Jmp_zIUVzOb">post</a> about the incident.
&#8220;Ultimately, we were barred from utilizing the designated room for our event,&#8221; Weinberg said, adding that he had reserved the room over a month ago.
Administrators allegedly refused to open the locked doors, citing &#8220;security concerns.&#8221;
In the weeks prior, UCLA administrators also allegedly stalled the event&#8217;s approval process, according to the student group. Administrators told the group that if the pro-Palestinian encampment was still in place on the day of the event, it would be too dangerous for an event expressing opposing views to happen, the group said.
The student group brought in legal counsel and contested that decision, arguing that it was an unconstitutional use of the heckler’s veto. At first, the university appeared to reconsider.
&#8220;The school threw up roadblock after roadblock to try and prevent the event from happening. Eventually, the school granted approval, albeit on very short notice,&#8221; Weinberg said.
In the end though, the event was blocked, the group said.
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&#8220;The move is also a clear violation of students’ constitutional rights,&#8221; YAF said in its post.
UCLA said it was &#8220;misinformation&#8221; that the event was canceled.
&#8220;The event took place in the designated location after it shifted to a closed, recorded event as proposed by the organizer and agreed to by UCLA,&#8221; Mary Osako, vice chancellor of strategic communications at UCLA, said in a statement to The Daily Wire.
YAF pushed back on the university&#8217;s characterization, saying the event never took place.
&#8220;The statement from UCLA is not correct. To be clear, our event did not take place,&#8221; YAF told The Daily Wire.
YAF&#8217;s president, former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, warned that YAF is prepared to take UCLA to court over the issue.
&#8220;Conservative students should have the same rights as the pro-Hamas students who have routinely obstructed and violently disrupted the UCLA campus,&#8221; Walker said in a statement to The Daily Wire.
&#8220;UCLA canceled YAF’s access to the lecture hall while allowing protestors to freely roam the campus. Like we did against UC, Berkeley, YAF will prevail against UCLA in court!&#8221; Walker said.
Weinberg, the YAF chapter student chairman, expressed disappointment at the university&#8217;s move.
&#8220;Our chapter harbors profound disappointment towards the administration for permitting unlawful pro-Hamas encampments to flout both legal statutes and school policies, thereby enabling these agitators and students to perpetrate physical harassment and assaults against Jewish students,&#8221; Weinburg said. &#8220;Our sole intent was to host a Pro-Israel event welcoming individuals of all backgrounds and viewpoints, aimed at fostering dialogue often absent from college campuses. This is not only a double standard, but a clear infringement upon our First Amendment rights.&#8221;
&#8220;As a result, we have chosen to pursue legal recourse,&#8221; he added.
Spencer, the event&#8217;s speaker, had strong words for the school, accusing it of indoctrinating students with leftist ideology.
“UCLA and other universities today are not institutions of higher learning; they are radioactive wastelands of hard-left indoctrination,” Spencer said.
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A group of Republican attorneys general announced a new lawsuit against the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> over its changes to Title IX that would expand prohibitions on discrimination to include gender identity.
The 85-page <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/05/KS-Title-IX-Complaint-filing-copy.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a>, filed by Kansas, Utah, Alaska, Wyoming, Moms For Liberty, Young America’s Foundation, and Female Athletes United, says that the rule politicizes the education system to “conform to the radical ideological views of the Biden administration and its allies.”
The Education Department, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, the Justice Department, and Attorney General Merrick Garland are all named in the suit. Conservatives have argued that Biden’s changes to Title IX will endanger state laws keeping males out of women’s sports, bathrooms, and locker rooms.
“If Biden has his way, a 16-year-old female high school student on an overnight field trip could be forced to share a hotel room with a biological male who identifies as a girl or the district would risk losing federal funding,” <a href="https://adfmedia.org/press-release/more-states-girls-sue-biden-admin-illegal-attempt-rewrite-title-ix" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach. “A 14-year-old girl could be forced to share a locker room and change in front of an 18-year-old man who identifies as a woman or the district could lose funds. It’s unconscionable, it’s dangerous for girls and women, and it’s against federal law.”
During a press conference announcing the suit, Kobach said that there were multiple concerns with the rules, including the intrusion of transgender-identifying males into female spaces, loss of due process for students accused of sexual misconduct, and expansion of benefits for students and school staff for abortions.
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“Sports should be free of politics, we’re not injecting politics into sports, we’re keeping politics out because it is a pure, ideological crusade that is driving this attempt to change women’s sports,” Kobach <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/963297708765749">said</a> during a press conference.
The suit argues that Biden’s new guidelines violate federal law, as well as the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
“This unlawful rule also robs girls and women of their opportunity to participate in their school’s education programs and activities, especially athletics, by forcing them to compete with biological males,” the suit says. “It forces both boys and girls, in their most formative years, to sacrifice their privacy in personal spaces such as restrooms, locker rooms, and even overnight accommodations.”
A number of other Republican officials <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-states-file-flurry-of-lawsuits-against-biden-admin-over-transgender-title-ix-rules" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have filed</a> challenges to Biden’s Title IX re-write, including Montana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Idaho, Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, and South Carolina.

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Daily Wire host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/andrew-klavan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Andrew Klavan</a> spoke to a crowd of students at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill on Wednesday, saying that American society’s embrace of transgenderism was teaching people to “live a lie.”
Klavan, who was brought to campus by the Young America’s Foundation, spoke to the college students about modern culture’s conception of the self in a speech entitled, “Sex, God, and Liberty.” During a Q&amp;A session after the speech, Klavan was asked to expound on his thoughts on transgenderism and why so many young people were starting to identify as transgender.
Klavan, host of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-andrew-klavan-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Andrew Klavan Show</a>,” said that he believed that transgenderism denied reality and that people needed to push back acceptance of it in a “loving way.”
“We’re teaching people to live a lie, we’re teaching people that if they can just bully everybody into believing the lie it will somehow magically become true, and that has its roots in postmodern theory where language creates reality, which it just doesn’t. Language describes reality,” Klavan said. &#8220;All of these things to me are tremendously damaging and are going to get worse until people start pushing back against it in a loving way.&#8221;
The bestselling author said that some young people were being pushed to embrace transgenderism because they believed that all men and all women needed to be exactly the same. He said that this belief was leading them to adopt an identity he said would be harmful to them.
“I know people, young people who are having this problem and it breaks my heart because I think that moving into an area of falsehood is going to make them miserable in the long run,”  Klavan said.
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Earlier in his speech, Klavan talked about the push for people to accept the phrase “trans women are women,” a slogan frequently posted across X. Klavan said the problem with the statement was that it was “not true” and it would lead to people living unhappy lives. 
He added that transgender ideology seemed to specifically target women because of the modern disdain for true femininity. 
“I can tell you from a lifetime of experience that if you live by things that are untrue you will be miserable,” Klavan said. “It’s just not a true statement. Words have meanings and the meanings of those words don’t make any sense. You can change, declare the meaning, but we all know what a woman is.”
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Daily Wire host Michael Knowles spoke to a large crowd at the University of Utah on Monday night, calling out the growing trend — especially among young Americans – of transgender identity.
At the beginning of his Young America&#8217;s Foundation speech, Knowles, who has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-knew-the-libs-were-going-to-run-with-it-knowles-says-call-to-eradicate-transgender-ideology-cornered-left-wing-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">angered the Left</a> with past comments on transgenderism, said he was surprised that even in “meek and mild Utah,” he saw a video of “some wild banshee-like lady accosting, assaulting one of the students here as the student was hanging up flyers for this lecture tonight.”
Knowles said the video was proof that conservatives across the country, even in Utah, are not safe from being thrown into the middle of a culture war where common sense is met with the hatred of leftists.
“The commonsense view to which the protester objected is banal and self-evident: men and women are different, men can’t become women, and women can’t become men,” Knowles said.
The universal truth surrounding human beings’ biology has been challenged in Western cultures around the globe, but radical transgender theory and the confusion it brings seems to be most prevalent in the U.S., according to Knowles.
“Contrary to the pretensions of purple-haired, perpetually aggrieved American leftists, the obsession with turning fellas into ladies is not universal. Transgenderism is a largely American phenomenon.”
“According to a recent <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/28/new-study-on-rise-in-transgender-shows-its-a-fad-especially-among-young-girls/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> out of Virginia Tech’s School of Medicine, 80% of sampled diagnoses of ‘gender dysphoria’ come from the United States. Eighty percent. Is there something in our water? Is it the seed oils? Maybe it is the seed oils,” the Daily Wire host added, sparking laughter from the audience. “Is it something in the air? Maybe. I suspect, however, it has more to do with politics and social fads, but whatever the cause, transgenderism seems to be an especially American problem.”
Knowles cited a 2016 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/health/transgender-population.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The New York Times, which found that even eight years ago, the number of adults identifying as transgender in the U.S. had doubled in five years. Pew Research also found that <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/06/07/about-5-of-young-adults-in-the-u-s-say-their-gender-is-different-from-their-sex-assigned-at-birth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than 5%</a> of American adults under the age of 30 identify as “transgender” or “nonbinary” and were three times more likely than the general population to identify as “trans.”
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“There are not sufficient data to say that America is the most ‘trans’ country in the world. There’s a lot of evidence to suggest it. But then other surveys award that dubious distinction to Brazil or alternately to Germany, to Sweden, to Switzerland. We just don’t know,” said Knowles. “Transgenderism is a weird, relatively new, still-niche thing, and we don’t yet have reliable numbers. We probably won’t have reliable numbers any time soon because trans identity is growing exponentially.”
Knowles pointed out how other Western nations, such as Sweden, Finland, and France, began pumping the brakes on and even outright banning transgender procedures for children while the U.S. has continued moving forward with offering life-altering gender surgeries and hormonal drugs to minors.
“As Europe began to ban the trans-ing of kids, America’s rulers—up to and including Mr. Biden—issued orders to expand it,” Knowles said.
Knowles added that the president, who has been described as a &#8220;devout Catholic&#8221; by legacy media and White House staff, has doubled down on his embrace of &#8220;transgender ideology&#8221; over the course of his administration, even proclaiming March 31 of this year as “Trans Day of Visibility” when the 31st was Easter Sunday.
“Joe Biden, of course, has never been deterred from error by his supposed faith,” Knowles said. “So while practically everyone turns away from transgender ideology, Joe Biden has doubled down. And it’s not just Biden; it’s the whole American political establishment. When it comes to transgender ideology, America is a radical outlier.”
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‘An Especially American Problem’: Michael Knowles Addresses The U.S. Establishment’s Radical Embrace Of Transgenderism

'An Especially American Problem': Michael Knowles Addresses The U.S. Establishment's Radical Embrace Of Transgenderism 

A recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/catholic-university-blocks-matt-walsh-from-speaking-on-campus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Walsh</a> appearance at New Mexico State University upset two New Mexico state senators so much that they are now asking the university to address the “policies” that allowed Walsh to speak on campus. 
Democratic State Sens. Carrie Hamblen and William Soules, along with seven other state, county, and municipal government officials, signed the letter last month addressed to the NMSU Board of Regents interim president. In the letter, the officials expressed their “extreme disappointment” that the university allowed Walsh to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWwPdkzatkQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speak on campus</a> at a Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) event in April. 
The letter, first <a href="https://yaf.org/news/state-senator-wants-to-ban-conservative-speakers-after-successful-matt-walsh-yaf-lecture/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> by Young America’s Foundation, accused Walsh of “encouraging violence” and “spouting racist and pro-slavery rhetoric.” The officials also accused Walsh of “minimizing accusations against known pedophiles and child abusers” without providing any basis to level the accusation. 
“As you prepare for new students coming in the fall, we would welcome a serious conversation about the rationale for allowing this type of event that would knowingly frighten and harm part of the student population, learn who in the administration supported this, and what policies or actions will be taken in the future to prevent further emotional and psychological damage to some of the most vulnerable in your student population,” the letter states. 
As noted by Young America’s Foundation, NMSU’s status as a public university means it had no basis to prevent Walsh from speaking on campus after he had been invited by the club that went through all the proper channels to host the event. 
“NMSU had a responsibility to shield the trans and queer individuals, many of whom were disregarded when expressing their concerns and fears because of the Walsh event,” the letter adds, citing <a href="https://www.krqe.com/news/politics-government/legislature/governor-expands-human-rights-act-in-new-mexico/#:~:text=House%20Bill%20207%20clarifies%20the,%2C%20disabilities%2C%20and%20sexual%20orientation." target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Bill 207</a>, which requires the state&#8217;s Human Rights Act to apply to all New Mexico government agencies, institutions, cities, counties, and public contractors. The bill also adds definitions for sex, gender, gender identity, disabilities, and sexual orientation to the Human Rights Act. 
Interim President Jay Gouge reportedly asked Jewel Navarette, the chairwoman of the NMSU YAF, to meet with him and Hamblen. Navarette said she and her fellow conservative students will continue to stand up for their First Amendment rights.  
“We will continue to fight for the right to free speech and expression on our campus,” she said. “These public officials have no right to say what kind of ideas can or cannot be expressed at NMSU.”
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The letter was also signed by state Rep. Angelica Rubio; Lac Cruces Council Mayor Pro Tem Kasandra Gandara; Las Cruces City Councilors Becky Corran, Johana Bencomo, and Becki Graham; and Dona Ana County Commissioners Shannon Reynolds and Christopher Schaljo-Hernandez.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/university-of-san-diego" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of San Diego</a> has blocked a request from a group of college Republicans to bring Daily Wire host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/matt-walsh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Walsh</a> to speak on campus, with members of the campus’s student government calling Walsh’s beliefs “grossly offensive.”
Members of the USD College Republicans had hoped to bring Walsh to the private Catholic university, but were denied approval by campus administrators and the student government, which unanimously voted against approving an event with Walsh, <a href="https://yaf.org/news/university-of-san-diego-bans-matt-walsh-speech-calls-conservative-beliefs-grossly-offensive/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the New Guard</a>, a publication of the Young America&#8217;s Foundation. 
While the council turned down the request for funding needed to host the event, the council has approved events with prominent Left-wing speakers like Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrice Cullors and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA). Schiff has been a vocal supporter of abortion, which firmly violates the Catholic teachings on the sanctity of life. 
“I feel as though conservatives and Catholics are discriminated against for simply holding onto their religious beliefs,” USD College Republicans President Alyssa Jackson told the New Guard. “We hope that we can still bring Matt Walsh to voice conservative beliefs on campus, which are heavily underrepresented. We face discrimination from professors and peers everyday for our values and we believe that Matt would be a strong advocate for our cause.”
Jackson later met with USD administrators who she said told her that the views expressed by Walsh, a Catholic, are not in line with Catholic Social Teaching and are “grossly offensive.”
“The university is in full support of freedom of expression and freedom of inquiry … that’s the basis of a university,” Assistant Vice President for Student Life Byron Howlett reportedly said. “But it’s also a delicate balancing act because we have a duty to protect our community members as well. In that case, that usurps that freedom of inquiry and freedom of expression.”
This view was shared by student senator Isabella Sevilla, who was reportedly involved in bringing a drag event to campus during the spring semester. 
“As a Catholic institution, I do think that it is one of the most important things that we hold our Catholic faith first and if he does not align with the values of the Catholic church then that is something we should consider regarding allocating funding,” she said. 
Sharing the story on Instagram, the USD College Republicans <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CwOmhpFtppv/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">urged</a> followers to “reach out to USD via email to show your support for freedom of speech and diversity of opinions at USD.”

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A new survey shows that the majority of young people believe that President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> should face a primary challenge as his popularity among the demographic continues to decline. 
The <a href="https://yaf.org/news/new-yaf-poll-students-rally-behind-presidential-age-limits-bidens-gen-z-appeal-declines-trump-should-debate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey</a> was taken by Echelon Insights and commissioned by the Young America’s Foundation (YAF), and asked 1,650 high school and college students for their views on a variety of political and social issues. 
56% of high schoolers <a href="https://issuu.com/young.americas.foundation/docs/young_america_s_foundation_2023_survey_deck_1_?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">say</a> that Biden should face a serious primary challenge with 61% of college students agreeing, including 68% of high school students who identify as liberal and 62% of college students who identify as liberal. 
Biden currently faces challenges from Marianne Williamson and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the latter of whom has reached up to 20% of support from Democrats in some polls. 
The president’s approval has dipped down from 2021 among both high schoolers and college students, according to the survey. Among high school students his approval has dropped from 58% to 33% and disapproval has jumped 29% to 47%. Among college students his approval has dropped from 62% to 38% and disapproval jumped from 28% to 51%. 
The economy was a top issue for both college and high school students, though school safety slightly edged out economic concerns for high schoolers. Issues of race relations, immigration, and political corruption ranked as less important issues for both demographics. 
Both groups also expressed support for mandating a maximum age for presidential candidates with nearly three fourths of college students backing the idea of age restrictions. Those who favored age restrictions typically voiced support for an age somewhere between the ages of 60-69 as the oldest a presidential candidate could be. 
Just 19% of the high school students surveyed identified as conservative or somewhat conservative while 21% of college students identified as conservative or somewhat conservative. The most common ideological identification for both was moderate, including 33% of high school students and 32% of college students. 
“In the leadup to GOP primary debate, our polling shows Gen Z students across the political spectrum care about a range of important issues – including a candidate’s age and the need to feel safe in their schools. Strikingly though, the top issue among young voters is the economy,” former Wisconsin governor and current YAF President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/scott-walker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scott Walker</a> said in a statement. “Many are concerned they won’t be able to find a job that pays well, start a business, or be able to afford housing when they graduate from college. Everyone in the 2024 race would be wise to focus on the issues that matter to this important voting bloc.”

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