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Saving Elephants | Millennials defending & expressing conservative values

Jun 9, 2026

What if we can agree on the political solution, but we disagree on whose side is most likely to benefit?

Congress is broken.  On this we can all agree.  One of the more interesting reform ideas to emerge is the call to expand the number of Representatives in the United States House, thereby making it more likely...


Jun 2, 2026

In 1976 historian George H. Nash wrote The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945, a celebrated historical accounting that established much of the narrative for how we think about the development of modern conservatism even today.  But much has changed since the seventies.  What can the history...


May 19, 2026

Persuasion seems conspicuously absent from our politics.  Not shouting, denouncing, or trying to convince the “other side” that they’re wrong, evil, or both.  But the good faithed attempt to reach the hearts, minds, and emotions of others and persuade them to our point of view.  Why?  Why is persuasion so hard? ...


May 5, 2026

Sometimes the best way to understand one’s culture is to compare it with something entirely different.  In this episode Saving Elephants host Josh Lewis take a deep dive into China with Chinese dissident Lu of the YouTube channel All Things China with Lu. Lu demystifies what the Communist Chinese Party (CCP) wants,...


Apr 21, 2026

This month marks eight years of Saving Elephants tirelessly calling the GOP back to its classical conservative roots instead of the cult-of-personality nationalist populism to which the party has succumbed. And over these past eight years...things have only gotten worse. Saving Elephants host Josh Lewis assembles an...