113 – It's Greek to Me with Christopher Chesny
The Orthodox Christian faith is a growing yet tiny minority in the Christendom body in the United States. Yet they are growing in...
The Saving Elephants Podcast
The Saving Elephants Podcast features engaging conversations about conservative values and ideas with a mercifully modern twist. Tired of political shock-talk and rank punditry? Curious about what conservative thinkers of yesteryear had to say but don't have time to read some terribly long, boring book they wrote? Join us!
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- Aug 2
112 – Geriatric Millennials with Eric Kohn
Fellow geriatric millennial Eric Kohn joins Josh to discuss what keeps the Acton Institute anchored in turbulent political waters, the...
- Jul 19
111 – What Hath Conservatism Conserved? with Avi Woolf
Matthew Continetti’s new book The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism has instigated a vigorous conversation around the...
- Jul 5
110 – Reaching the Future with Marlo Slayback
Founded in the early 1950s, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) sought to fill the gaping void in higher education where...
- Jun 21
109 – The Right with Matthew Continetti
Esteemed AEI scholar Matthew Continetti returns to the podcast for a woefully brief overview of his latest book, The Right: The...
- Jun 7
108 – Following Up with Bo Winegard
Bo Winegard returns to the show to talk about controversies surrounding the science of human variation, his experience with cancel...
- May 17
107 – Right to Work with Christopher Chesny
As more and more working-class Americans join the Republican party some voices on the Right are advocating the GOP become the worker’s...
- May 3
106 – Reappraising Herbert Hoover with George Nash
Historian George Nash returns to the show to discuss the life and legacy of Herbert Hoover. Few American presidents are as decried by...
- Apr 19
105 – AllSides with Julie Mastrine
Julie Mastrine of AllSides joins Saving Elephants host Josh Lewis in a freewheeling conversation about the media. Conservatives love to...
- Apr 5
104 – Armchair Burkeans with Bo Winegard
Josh engages in a Cannonball Run conversation with Bo Winegard across a wide variety of subjects from how Bo found himself migrating from...
- Mar 15
103 – Creative Impostors with Andrea Klunder and David Blatt
In this re-podcast episode Saving Elephants host Josh Lewis joins his committed liberal friend David Blatt on Andrea Klunder’s show The...
- Mar 1
102 – More Talking Less Killing with Corey Nathan
The British theologian and philosopher G. K. Chesterton observed that “religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free...
- Feb 15
101 – Voting Vexations
How secure and reliable are elections in the United States? The Left and Right are both replete with voices warning of the dire...
- Feb 1
100 – The Genius of Thomas Sowell with Alan Wolan
Saving Elephants officially hits 100 episodes! Host Josh Lewis is joined by Alan Wolan to discuss their mutual admiration for the...
- Jan 18
Episode 99 – The Forgotten Legacy of Willmoore Kendall with Chris Owen
Few individuals have had as deep an impact on modern conservative thought, yet remain in relative obscurity, as Willmoore Kendall. The...
- Jan 4
Episode 98 – The Deep Places with Ross Douthat
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat joins Josh Lewis to talk about his recent memoir The Deep Places. His book tells of his recent...
- Dec 21, 2021
Episode 97 – Good Grief with Jimmy Humphrey and Andrew Snyder
Christmastime is here, a season of joy and merriment, happy gatherings of family and friends, peace on earth and goodwill to all. Both...
- Dec 7, 2021
Episode 96 – Conservative Minds with Kyle Sammin and Corey Astill
Hosts of the Conservative Minds podcast Kyle Sammin and Corey Astill join Josh to discuss the timeless questions of what conservatism...
- Nov 30, 2021
Bonus Episode – America's Future with Ericka Andersen
In this re-podcast from America’s Future Facebook live interview, Ericka Andersen interviews Saving Elephants host Josh Lewis about his...
- Nov 16, 2021
Episode 95 – Reassessing the GOP with Justin Stapley
For the Trump-skeptical conservative, the past five years have been dizzyingly disconcerting. We’ve often felt politically homeless and...
- Nov 2, 2021
Episode 94 – What's the Matter with Socialism?
Saving Elephants host Josh Lewis offers a conservative critique of socialism. It’s hardly news that socialism is gaining in popularity...
- Oct 19, 2021
Episode 93 – Repainting the Fusionist Fence with James Davenport
Founded in 1953, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) has remained on the forefront of the conservative intellectual movement with...
- Oct 5, 2021
Episode 92 – The Spice of Life
As the old adage goes, variety is the spice of life. And the conservative heartily agrees. Variety, not uniformity, is what gives life...
- Sep 21, 2021
Episode 91 – Invisible Men with Ian Rowe and Nique Fajors
Saving Elephants host Josh Lewis is joined by Ian Rowe and Nique Fajors—two black Harvard Business School graduates—who hope to change...
- Sep 7, 2021
Episode 90 – Redlining and Reparations with Charles Marohn
America’s history of bigotry and racism have left wounds that fester to this day. How might the country make amends to those racial...
- Aug 31, 2021
Bonus Episode – En Route with Dennis Sanders
Saving Elephants host Josh Lewis joins Dennis Sanders on his podcast En Route to discuss the past, present, and future of the GOP and...
- Aug 17, 2021
Episode 89 – Uprooted with Gracy Olmstead
Often the highest praise we can offer a bright, promising student is “you’ll go far”. Americans have long associated success with...
- Aug 3, 2021
Episode 88 – Opioid Pains with Peter Pischke
The opioid overdose crisis is back in the news with recent revelations that the already shocking death toll has increased dramatically...
- Jul 20, 2021
Episode 87 – E Pluribus Unum with Avi Woolf
What is America and what does it mean to be an American? We Americans have been debating this question for centuries, yet we seem even...
- Jun 29, 2021
Episode 86 – Perfect Bedrock
Josh takes a break from the guests to cover a little conservatism 101. Russell Kirk’s pithy list Ten Conservative Principles: begins with...
- Jun 15, 2021
Episode 85 – Strong Towns with Charles Marohn
For thousands of years the ways in which cities and towns developed has provided us with a of blueprint for what human habitats need to...
- Jun 1, 2021
Episode 84 – The History of American Conservatism with George Nash
In 1976 historian George H. Nash wrote The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945, a celebrated historical accounting...
- May 18, 2021
Episode 83 – West Coast (Straussianism) is the Best Coast with Seth Root
Few conservative thinkers are as little known, controversial, or had as great an impact on the conservative elite as Leo Strauss. Who was...
- May 4, 2021
Episode 82 – Ruminating Remnants with Jonah Goldberg
Syndicated columnist, author, podcaster, and political commentator Jonah Goldberg joins Josh to discuss his work in conservative media,...
- Apr 20, 2021
Episode 81 – But, He's a Fighter
How often have you heard someone say of a Republican politician that they don’t necessarily approve of everything they do or say, but at...
- Apr 6, 2021
Episode 80 – The Future of Fusionism with Stephanie Slade
“There's a well-worn tale about modern American conservatism,” writes Stephanie Slade in her piece for Reason entitle Is There a Future...
- Apr 1, 2021
Bonus Episode – What is Conservatism? – with Corey Astill and Kyle Sammin
The Saving Elephants podcast turns three years old today—no joke! To celebrate Saving Elephants is releasing a bonus episode: a...
- Mar 16, 2021
Episode 79 – Turning Left from Right with Calvin Moore
Host of the Leading Questions podcast Calvin Moore joins Josh to discuss his journey away from the Evangelical faith and a traditional,...
- Mar 2, 2021
Episode 78 – Iron Ladies with Leslie Loftis
Women on the Right have an invisibility problem. It’s not that they’re nonexistent, it’s that they’re often overlooked by the Fox News...
- Feb 16, 2021
Episode 77 – Truth in Tension with Justin Stapley
In this crossover episode friend of the podcast Justin Stapley invites Saving Elephants host Josh Lewis onto his show Self-Evident to...
- Feb 2, 2021
Episode 76 – What Happens Now with Cal Davenport
The million-dollar question within conservatism these days is what happens now? After the tumultuous years of the Trump administration...
- Jan 19, 2021
Episode 75 – A Peaceful Transfer of Power
Tomorrow Joe Biden will be sworn in as our 46th President. Yet this inauguration will mark the first time in American history that the...
- Jan 12, 2021
Bonus Episode – Remembering Roger Scruton with Bryan Baise
One year ago today, on January 12, 2020, Sir Roger Scruton died at the age of 75. Thus passed one of the greatest intellectual minds of...
- Jan 5, 2021
Episode 74 – Conserving Liberalism
What is the opposite of conservatism? It’s liberalism, right? Well…it’s not quite that simple. Saving Elephants host Josh Lewis goes...
- Dec 22, 2020
Bonus Episode – Two Burkeans and a Straussian
Last week cohosts Cal Davenport and Seth Root of the In The Trenches podcast invited Saving Elephants host Josh Lewis on their show for...
- Dec 15, 2020
Episode 73 – Formative Institutions with Yuval Levin
Among the legions of intellectuals and academics milling about Washington D.C., few commands more respect than Yuval Levin. Yuval has...
- Dec 1, 2020
Episode 72 – The Millennial Presidents
About a year ago Saving Elephants host Josh Lewis and frequent guest Bob Burch did a series exploring the American Presidencies from a...
- Nov 17, 2020
Episode 71 – Exploring Burke with Wes Siler
The 18th century British statesman Edmund Burke is often credited as being the father of modern conservatism. His most famous...
- Nov 4, 2020
Bonus Episode – The 2020 Elections – Now What?
Saving Elephants’ own Josh Lewis hosts an election night panel to discuss the incoming results of the race and what it may mean for the...
- Nov 3, 2020
Episode 70 – Election Day
It’s finally here! It’s Election Day. After what feels like the longest year of our lives, the campaign season is over. While voting and...