These 12 Kinds of Content Prove It
Students For Liberty focuses on educating, developing, and empowering the next generation of leaders. We tackle that mission in many ways; here, on the 12th and final day of Christmas, are 12 different kinds of content that we produce, which illuminate how we’re making the world freer — and more knowledgeable — about the ideas of liberty.
1. Learn Liberty full-length, educational videos
Our dedicated video team produces these deep dives on subjects from tariffs to zoning laws to Bitcoin to the 2nd Amendment. Here’s one recent example:
I was terrified of guns. Here’s what changed.
2. Learn Liberty Shorts
That same video team also produces shorter, social-media-friendly videos. Some are 60-second cuts of our full-length videos, such as: Disney’s Villains: How They Shape Our Views of Good & Evil… while others are new, original productions that garner tens of thousands of views, like America’s debt solution revealed.
3. Photos
This photo, of University of Texas SFL volunteer Zall Arvandi (left), shows his peaceful, student-led campus protest broken up by Joseph LoBrutto (right), of the Dean of Students’ office.
“You have to comply with us today,” LoBrutto said. “If you fail to comply with us today, you can be sanctioned, and if you’re not affiliated [with the university], then you can be given a criminal trespass warning for campus.” This was AFTER — yes, after — Arvandi and others won a preliminary injunction from a federal judge that blocked the UT System from enforcing a new law that sought to ban 1st-Amendment-protected speech after dark on public campuses.
Arvandi ultimately complied with the Dean of Students’ office, but made his argument professionally and politely, and will continue to do so in the courts.
4. Success Stories (and Spotlight Videos)
If you navigate to our Success Stories, via the “About Us” dropdown tab above, you’ll find dozens of stories of our best students and alumni, and the incredible impact they’re making in the world. This one, with video included, showcases Lamar Zala Gran, who is Empowering 5000 — And Counting — Afghan Women And Girls.
5. Twitter/X threads
Here’s one of the many examples of how our social media team is sharing compelling stories and arguments for liberty online. (It highlights the researcher who exposed just how much suffering Stalin’s Soviet machine inflicted.) These threads generate thousands of views, and occasionally go viral; some even get re-shared by people like Elon Musk and Javier Milei.
6. Blog posts
The Learn Liberty blog provides SFL students and alumni the opportunity to practice their short-form, argumentative writing and build a portfolio of published articles in the process. Some recent examples: Capitalism is not consumerism and Peace Activism to the Limit: The Abolition of Nuclear Weapons.
7. Events
As powerful as online content can be, in-person events are the heart of what we do. They inspire people, and bring smiles to faces, like nothing else can. Take, for example, our Asia-Pacific region, which just concluded its Human Respect campaign. At the beginning of the year, we committed to holding 48 events. We reached our goal, in the process drawing 1,338 students from the Philippines, Indonesia, and beyond.
Our signature event, LibertyCon, will take place April 24-26, 2026 in Madrid. Learn more and register HERE.
8. Documentaries
Brazil is one of Students For Liberty’s strongest regions. Two decades of disastrous, big-government policy have made Millennials and Gen Z’ers there eager to be free. That’s why the Learn Liberty team explored favelas and their history: to show how the Brazilian State, over time, has pushed millions of people into makeshift, poorly constructed homes — and kept them there.
Deed to Dignity: The Government’s Role in Keeping People Poor
9. Podcasts
SFL CEO Wolf von Laer recently appeared on Reason’s podcast to discuss Campus Activism in the Wake of Charlie Kirk’s Murder.
10. Annual Reports
Every year, SFL publishes an annual report, packed with statistics and stories that show our impact. Last year’s annual report theme was: Human Hearts Want to Be Free. Stay tuned for this year’s annual report, all about how The Tide Is Turning.
11. Books
Many of our student volunteers are great writers; in fact, SFL North America’s Ostrom House members wrote chapters for the Milton Was Right book project, in partnership with the Free to Choose Network. Their research and writing assessed how Milton Friedman’s 1962 Capitalism and Freedom stands up today. But none of our volunteers were as prolific as Trenton Hale, who has written THREE full-length books, including Freedom For All: How a Libertarian Society Would Function.
12. Email Courses
The most recent addition to our content lineup has been reaching young, liberty-curious people in record numbers: multi-part email courses, with the theme of “How To Not Be an NPC (non-playable character, or someone who seems pre-programmed and acts mindlessly) on XYZ.” See, for example, HOW TO NOT BE AN NPC ON TARIFFS.
