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Saving Elephants Ben Sasse and the Path Not Taken

12/27/2025

The week of Christmas merriment was tinged with sadness as we learned of Senator Ben Sasse’s advanced cancer diagnosis. In a lengthy social media post he foretold he was “gonna die”. And while—God willing—Sasse will be with us for a long time to come, his return to public life seems dubious at best. His tenure in the United States Senate reflected the voice of reason and integrity in a wavering time. Imperfect, to be sure, but perhaps perfectly emblematic of the sentiments and...
December 27, 2025 at 05:57PM - Josh Lewis

Ben Sasse and the Path Not Taken

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Saving Elephants 192 Remnant Redux with Jonah Goldberg

12/16/2025

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Jonah Goldberg makes his triumphal return to Saving Elephants where host Josh Lewis peppers him with unyielding questions on what his fourth and forthcoming book will be about, the practicality of setting lottery winnings as a life-goal, what a post-Trump GOP might look like, whether it makes sense to even “save” the elephants, and whether we should welcome human enslavement to our future AI overlords. Remnant fans, have your bingo cards at the ready! About Jonah Goldberg From The...
December 16, 2025 at 07:00AM - Josh Lewis

192 – Remnant Redux with Jonah Goldberg

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Saving Elephants 191 Canceling Caylan with Caylan Ford

12/2/2025

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In 2019 Caylan Ford resigned her political candidacy in Canada after controversy over allegations of her echoing white nationalist rhetoric. In spite of her resignation—and continual insistence she held no such views—the mobs of cancel culture demanded “justice”. She was blacklisted from employers, unable to continue work with organizations that seek to liberate people living under the yoke of totalitarianism, ostracized by friends and colleagues, attacked and trolled online, and shunned by...
December 02, 2025 at 07:26AM - Josh Lewis

191 – Canceling Caylan with Caylan Ford

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Saving Elephants Ben Sasse and the Path Not Taken

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