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Conservative ideas are no longer welcome on most college campuses—or anywhere else. If you are a conservative student or professor, or just interested in the conservative intellectual tradition, this podcast is for you! Join Johnny Burtka, James Davenport, and Marlo Safi for in-depth conversations with leading thinkers on the most important issues facing conservatism.

Conservative ideas are no longer welcome on most college campuses—or anywhere else. If you are a conservative student or professor, or just interested in the conservative intellectual tradition, this podcast is for you! Join Johnny Burtka, James Davenport, and Marlo Safi for in-depth conversations with leading thinkers on the most important issues facing conservatism.
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Conservative ideas are no longer welcome on most college campuses—or anywhere else. If you are a conservative student or professor, or just interested in the conservative intellectual tradition, this podcast is for you! Join Johnny Burtka, James Davenport, and Marlo Safi for in-depth conversations with leading thinkers on the most important issues facing conservatism.

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Episodes

Carmel Richardson on Seed Oils, the Food Industry, and Crunchy Conservatism

7/13/2022
In this episode: The American ConservativeTexts Mentioned: Seed Oils and Bad ScienceCrunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food Re-evaluation of the traditional diet-heart hypothesis: analysis of recovered data from Minnesota Coronary Experiment (1968-73) Become a part of ISI: Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

Duration:00:38:30

Charles Fain Lehman on Crime, Policing and the Conservative Approach to Criminal Justice Reform

7/5/2022
In this episode: Texts Mentioned: Fixing Drinking Problems: Evidence and Strategies for Alcohol Control as Crime ControlRejecting DisorderPot and PathologyBloodless Moralism Become a part of ISI: Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

Duration:00:41:32

Roe Is Overturned – Ryan T. Anderson Explains What’s Next For Pro-Lifers

6/23/2022
Conservative Conversations Episode 48—Ryan T. Anderson on The Supreme Court Overturned Roe v. Wade — Here’s What’s Next for Pro-Lifers In this episode: Texts Mentioned: Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing Become a part of ISI: Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

Duration:00:42:04

Samuel Gregg on Inflation and Conservative Political Economy

6/21/2022
In this episode: American Institute for Economic ResearchTexts Mentioned: The Next American Economy: Nation, State, and Markets in an Uncertain World Become a part of ISI: Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

Duration:00:49:26

Geoff Shullenberger on Spiritual Decay, School Shootings, and René Girard’s Mimesis

6/14/2022
Conservative Conversations Episode 46—Geoff Shullenberger on Spiritual Decay, School Shootings, and René Girard’s Mimesis In this episode: Compact, Texts Mentioned: The Faith of Mass Shooters Human Sacrifice and the Digital Business Model Thresholds of Violence Become a part of ISI: Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

Duration:00:44:38

David Whalen on Wonder, Literature as Political, and Books that Inspire

5/31/2022
Conservative Conversations Episode 46—David Whalen on Wonder, Literature as Political, and Books that Inspire In this episode: Texts Mentioned: King Lear On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs: Teaching, Writing, Playing, Believing, Lecturing, Philosophizing, Singing, DancingLeisure: The Basis of Culture Brideshead Revisited A Soldier of the Great War Become a part of ISI: Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

Duration:00:47:00

CC Live! Victor Davis Hanson on The Dying Citizen

5/24/2022
Conservative Conversations Episode 45—Victor Davis Hanson on The Dying Citizen In this episode: Texts Mentioned: The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying The Idea Of America Become a part of ISI: Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

Duration:00:41:32

Josh Craddock on SCOTUS, Overturning Roe, and Building a Culture of Life

5/19/2022
Conservative Conversations Episode 44—Josh Craddock on SCOTUS, Overturning Roe, and Building a Culture of Life In this episode: Texts Mentioned: The Constitution Already Prohibits Abortion: An Originalist Case for Prenatal PersonhoodChoose Life Become a part of ISI: Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

Duration:00:40:39

Michael Gibson on Musk’s Twitter Takeover, and the Paper Belt on Fire

5/3/2022
Conservative Conversations Episode 43—Michael Gibson on Tech, Elon Musk’s Twitter, and the Paper Belt on Fire In this episode: Texts Mentioned: The Rise and Fall of American GrowthThe Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel BetterPaper Belt on Fire: How Silicon Valley Heretics Took on Higher Ed Become a part of ISI: Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

Duration:00:44:14

The Question That Rattled The Elites and the Future of Campus Journalism

4/25/2022
Conservative Conversations Episode 42—Daniel Schmidt and the Future of Campus Journalism A Student Journalist’s Question That Rattled The Elites In this episode: Texts Mentioned: Editorial: UChicago Must End Its Booster Mandate—We Are Not Lab RatsAtlantic’s Anne Applebaum Rattled by Hunter Biden Question in Epic Own by Thinker’s Daniel Schmidt Become a part of ISI: Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

Duration:00:32:37

Matthew Schmitz on Compact Magazine, Right Liberalism and Left Libertinism

4/18/2022
Conservative Conversations Episode 41—Matthew Schmitz on Compact Magazine, Right Liberalism and Left Libertinism In this episode: Texts Mentioned: Compact Magazine Become a part of ISI: Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

Duration:00:35:55

Christine Emba on Rethinking Sex

4/12/2022
Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 40—Christine Emba on Rethinking Sex In this episode: Texts Mentioned: Rethinking Sex: A Provocation Become a part of ISI: Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

Duration:00:43:38

Kevin Roberts on The Future of the Heritage Foundation

4/6/2022
Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 39—Kevin Roberts on The Future of the Heritage Foundation, Criminal Justice Reform, and the Pro-Life Movement In this episode... Become a part of ISI: Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

Duration:00:42:35

Steven F. Hayward on Reagan, M. Stanton Evans, and Lessons for Today

3/29/2022
Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 38—Steven F. Hayward on Reagan, M. Stanton Evans, and Lessons for Today In this episode... Texts Mentioned: M. Stanton Evans: Conservative Wit, Apostle of Freedom by Steven F. HaywardThe Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964-1980 by Steven F. HaywardRevolt on CampusBecome a part of ISI: Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

Duration:00:44:10

Matthew Continetti on Neoconservatism

3/21/2022
Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 37—Matthew Continetti on Neoconservatism In this episode... Texts Mentioned: The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism Become a part of ISI: Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

Duration:00:48:19

David Goldman on American Innovation & Great Power Competition

3/8/2022
Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 36—David Goldman on American Innovation & Great Power Competition In this episode... Texts Mentioned: You Will Be Assimilated: China's Plan to Sino-Form the World by David P. Goldman Become a part of ISI: Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

Duration:00:45:14

Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 35—Elbridge Colby on Creating a Conservative Foreign Policy

3/1/2022
Elbridge Colby on Creating a Conservative Foreign Policy In this episode... Texts Mentioned: The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict by Elbridge Colby Become a part of ISI: Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

Duration:00:48:46

Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 34—Michael Brendan Dougherty on Populist Chaos, the Parental Principle And What Ireland Taught Him About Tradition

2/17/2022
Michael Brendan Dougherty on Populist Chaos, the Parental Principle And What Ireland Taught Him About Tradition. In this episode... Texts Mentioned: My Father Left Me Ireland, by Michael Brendan Dougherty Mind of the New Majority, by Michael Brendan Dougherty What I Saw at the School-Board Meeting, by Michael Brendan Dougherty Become a part of ISI: Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

Duration:00:54:00

Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 33—Tom Woods on Folk Libertarianism, the Biomedical Security State and the Anti-War Movement

2/8/2022
Tom Woods on Folk Libertarianism, the Biomedical Security State and the Anti-War Movement In this episode... Texts Mentioned: Tom Woods’ Reading List The Revolution: A Manifesto, by Ron Paul Become a part of ISI: Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

Duration:00:48:29

Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 32—Oren Cass on Breaking the College-for-All Model

2/1/2022
Oren Cass on Breaking the College-for-All Model In this episode... The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in AmericaTexts Mentioned: Coming Apart Our Kids The Wealth of Nations The Road to Serfdom Serfdom Become a part of ISI: Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events

Duration:00:42:59

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