Ben Shapiro spent the last month reminding the country why conservative ideas still win when they are spoken plainly and without apology, and he laid out those moments on his podcast episode compiling the wildest scenes from his Lions & Scavengers book tour. He walked into hostile rooms, faced predictable left-wing performative outrage, and refused to be shushed — then turned those confrontations into teachable moments for anyone tired of cowardly elites.
Lions & Scavengers, released September 2, 2025 from Threshold Editions, is Shapiro’s cultural manifesto arguing that civilization succeeds when people choose duty, faith, and work over grievance and victimhood. The book tour was designed to bring that argument off the page and into the public square where Americans could see the contrast for themselves.
What the tour exposed was not nuance but theater: coordinated protests, campus mobs, and media operatives eager to gaslight decent citizens into thinking that defending Western values is somehow extreme. London protests and campus demonstrations that Shapiro recounts are symptomatic of a left that prefers spectacle to argument and destruction to debate.
Despite the predictable outrage machine, Lions & Scavengers climbed bestseller lists and packed event halls, proving that Americans are hungry for blunt truth and that the marketplace of ideas still rewards courage. The commercial success speaks for itself: conservatives showed up, bought the book, and refused to let the left set the agenda for which ideas are allowed in public life.
Conservatives should take heart from the tour footage and the book’s reception; Shapiro’s refusal to retreat under fire is exactly the kind of backbone our country needs right now. The contrast between lions who build and scavengers who tear down is not just a metaphor — it’s an organizing principle for a movement that wants to restore common sense, law and order, and a culture that rewards merit.
If you care about free speech, civic courage, and a future where kids learn responsibility instead of grievance, don’t let the mobs intimidate you into silence. Show up to events, support writers who speak the truth, and make your voice heard — the book tour proved that when patriots stand together, the left’s noise collapses under the weight of reality.
