Young America’s Foundation welcomes the leadership, alumni, supporters, and students of The Fund for American Studies to the Reagan Ranch.
Members of the California legislature and their spouses tour the Reagan Ranch Center’s exhibit galleries while in Santa Barbara for a Joint Legislative Summit.
Students and supporters gather near the Knapheide Family Berlin Wall exhibit in the entryway of the Reagan Ranch Center.
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heard from Hillsdale professor and former Young America’s Foundation intern Ivan Pongracic, Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund, Reuters reporter Jim Pethokoukis, author Rabbi Daniel Lapin, Chapman University professor and columnist Tibor Machan, President of the Foundation for Economic Education Lawrence Reed, and Foundation Director Kirby Wilbur. Speakers discussed the myths of the Great Depression, the morality of capitalism, the lessons learned from the fall of the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall, how Ronald Reagan restored America’s economy by signing the largest tax cut in American history, and more. The Foundation also hosted like-minded organizations at the Center and Ranch, including The Fund for American Studies (TFAS) and the Heritage Foundation. Participants in TFAS’s Leadership Network toured the Reagan Ranch Center before enjoying a luncheon program in the David Louis Bartlett Outreach Center. TFAS President Roger Ream emceed