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The Aaron Renn Show — 277 episodes
SPECIAL: My Appearance on Faithful Discourse with Chris Henry
Can AI Save Cities From the Urban Doom Loop? | Arpit Gupta
The Vanishing Black Family | Delano Squires
The 100-Year Rise of the Information Control State | Jacob Siegel
AI Is the New NAFTA | Brent Orell
Inside the Left's Institutional Capture | Seth Barron
America's "Hebraic Christianity" Culture | Joshua Mitchell
Art, Beauty, and Human Creativity | Margarita Mooney Clayton
Modern Christian Womanhood | Emma Waters
Shaking Up Jesus History | TC Schmidt
AI Skeptics Are About to Be Left Behind | Dean Ball
How to Think About Race in America | Albert Thompson
The Boomer Paradox | Jeff Giesea
America's Most Extreme Rust Belt Collapse | Chris Briem
How Smart Parents Are Giving Wealth to Their Kids Now | Justin Powell
From WASP Elites to AI Kings | Tanner Greer
Will America Be the Last Country Standing? | Lyman Stone
Why the Left Went Child-Free | Daniel Hess
Why Men Dress Like Slobs | O. W. Root
Why Families Are Fleeing Cities | Bobby Fijan
A Special Christmastime Podcast: Reflections and Supporting the Mission
How the Gospels Pass the Historical Test | Tim and Lydia McGrew
Why You Have to Believe! | Doug DeVos
How Society Forgot About Fertility | Darel Paul
Every Choice Kills a Universe | Joseph Holmes
The Dignity of Dependence | Leah Libresco Sargeant
State Laws and Your Religious Freedom | Mark David Hall
Land, Liberty, and Living Cheap | A. M. Hickman
Why America Can't Have Nice Things | Chris Arnade
The Collapse of Masculinity | John Seel
Presbyterians for the Kingdom | David Yancey and Redeemed Zoomer
Capitol Hill Baptist: 150 Years of Unchanging Faith | Caleb Morell
Is Evangelicalism Afraid of Hard Questions? | Joel Carini
The Hidden Truths Behind America's Housing Crisis | Adam Ozimek
The State of Missions | Ted Esler
The Vibe Shift Explained | Michael Foster
Hard Lessons from the Hurt Business | Ed Latimore
The Battle for Florida's Colleges | Jason Jewell
What Will We Do With 100,000 Empty Churches? | Richard Reinhard
A Pastor’s Battle to Save Historic Churches | Rev. Jake Dell
10 Types of Men Every Man Needs in His Life | Doug Reed
Faith, Family, and Steel: Understanding America’s Working-Class Heart | Robert Ordway
More Births or Bust | Daniel Hess
Why Religion Went Obsolete | Christian Smith
Why Industrial Policy Matters | Ian Fletcher
Why America Can't Build Anymore | Philip Howard
Why Christians Must Rediscover Civics | Elizabeth Landis
How Nietzsche Shaped American Thought | Sheluyang Peng
Why America Needs Moderate Republicans Again | Geoffrey Kabaservice
How Sports Betting Apps Hook You and Destroy Lives | Saagar Enjeti
VP Mike Pence on Faith, Marriage, and Life in the Public Square
What Killed America’s Can-Do Culture? | Tanner Greer
Faith, Politics and Southern Baptists | William Wolfe
Jewish in America | Josh Hammer
Muslim in America | Haroon Moghul
The Managerial Revolution in American Churches | Christopher Schlect
Work Is the Meaning of Life | David Bahnsen
New York: America's First Post-Secular City | Tony Carnes
Christian Liberty vs. Modern License: True Freedom in a Digital Age | Brad Littlejohn
Media Evolution and American Character | Titus Techera
Making the Case for Religion in a Secular Age | Ross Douthat
Classical Education's Civil War: Great Books vs Ancient Languages | Alex Petkas
How Democrats Lost the Working Class | Ruy Teixeira
The Ultimate Christian College Guide | Jesse Rine
Populism, Elite Power, and the American Right | Matthew Continetti
Traditional Conservatism in a Populist Age | Tim Chapman
Is America Actually Woke? | Musa al-Gharbi
JON ASKONAS: Building a Future in the Face of the Apocalypse
ROBERT GEORGE: The Future of Conservatives in Academia
RYAN WILLIAMS: How to Run a Dissident Think Tank
ROBERT WOODSON, SR.: How American Evangelicals Should Think About Race
JUSTIN SHUBOW: Making Buildings Beautiful
ROD DREHER: Living in a Re-Enchanted World
OS GUINNESS: Our Civilizational Moment
DELANO SQUIRES: Manhood in the Modern Age
STEPHEN EIDE: Uplifting the Man Farthest Down
AUSTIN KNUPPE: The Fate of Middle Eastern Christians
TIM CARNEY: America's Family Unfriendly Culture
NATE FISCHER: The Macro Trends Shaping Tomorrow's World
CHRIS BOLINGER: How Christian Men Can Survive Divorce
JAMES DAVISON HUNTER: Will America Come Apart?
JOSHUA KLEIN: Preserving the Art of Traditional Wood Construction
JON TYSON: Urban Church in the Negative World
OREN CASS: The Future of the American Worker
DEAN BALL: The Age of Artificial Intelligence
JARED MUSGROVE and WILL PESCH: Brothers Under Christ (BYX) - The Christian Fraternity
MAYOR FRANCIS SUAREZ: The Miami Model of Urbanism
YUVAL LEVIN: The Constitution Is the Solution
MILES SMITH: Lessons from Reading Exvangelical Memoirs
MATTHEW PETERSON: The Future of Conservative Media
JOSHUA MITCHELL: The Roots of the Great Awokening
BATYA UNGAR-SARGON: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women
RICHARD REEVES: The Struggles of the Modern American Male
FARAH STOCKMAN: What Happens to People When Work Disappears
JONATHAN WHITEHEAD: The Future of the Southern Baptist Convention
ANTHONY BRADLEY: Evangelicalism's Man Problems
DR. EWAN GOLIGHER: A Christian Response to Physician-Assisted Death
It's Not Your Problem, It's Their Problem
PAUL CARRESE: How Civics Can Remedy Higher Education’s Decline
LUKE ROBSON: Revitalizing Hillsdale, Michigan
Identity Is the Foundation of Everything (Newsletter #87)
LEON PODLES: The Deep Roots of Men's Alienation from Church
PETER OSTAPKO: Curating Conversations on Faith, Fatherhood, and Work at Kinsmen Journal
DAVID MURROW: Why Men Hate Going to Church
Cultural Insurgency (Newsletter #86)
BRAD WILCOX: Get Married
JOSEPH HARTMAN: Why Reinhold Niebuhr Matters Today
BRAD VERMURLEN: The Reformed Resurgence
JOSH ABBOTOY: The Big Sort
Smashing the Status Hierarchy (Newsletter #85)
DWIGHT GIBSON: How to Be an Explorer
JOHN BURTKA: Statesmanship and Masculinity
ALEXANDRA HUDSON: The Soul of Civility
Why You Need a Positive Vision (Newsletter #84)
DARREN DOCHUK: How Christianity and Crude Oil Made Modern America
The Case Against Pragmatism (Newsletter #83)
BRAD LITTLEJOHN and CHRIS CASTALDO: Why Protestants Convert to Catholicism
BEN MERKLE: Is Big Ed Too Big to Fail?
NANCY PEARCEY: The Toxic War on Masculinity
A Handyman's Guide to Masculinity (Newsletter #82)
JOHN SEEL: Cultural Engagement in the Negative World
ANDREW BRUNSON: God's Faithfulness While Suffering Unjustly
JOHN LOVELL: The Warrior Poet Way
The Problem With Servant Leadership (Newsletter #81)
REDEEMED ZOOMER: Can Mainline Denominations Be Saved?
ERIC LEFEVRE: When Lutherans Reversed Liberalism
SEN. MARCO RUBIO: The Importance of Working Men
DANIEL HOWE: The Christian Sabbath
The Maternal Instinct Will Not Be Suppressed (Newsletter #80)
SOHRAB AHMARI: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty
CHRISTINE EMBA: Man Troubles
The Teachings of Neo-Pagan Masculinity (Newsletter #79)
DENNY BURK: Evangelical Gender Wars
Big Eva Says Out with Complementarianism, In with Anti-Fundamentalism (Newsletter #78)
PAUL VANDERKLAY: What is the Future of the Christian Reformed Church?
You Have to Be Able to Speak Up For Yourself
"Structural" Forces Do Affect Individual and Group Outcomes
Mark Driscoll's Gender Teachings (Newsletter #77)
Culture Warring Is Also Obsolete
Why Conservative Boycotts Don't Work - And Why the Bud Light One Did
Mainline Reconquista?
A Critical Shortfall of Courage (Newsletter #76)
Conservatives Need to Learn How to Govern
Understanding How the American System Is Different
Kathy Keller's Skin in the Game
The Toxic Dynamics of a Post-Familial Society (Newsletter #75)
DR. NICHOLAS ELLIS: Christian Halls and the Future of Christian Higher Education
America's Unjust and Illegitimate System
The Rise of the Influencer Class
The Case for Saying Yes
Great Literature is Right Wing (Newsletter #74)
If There's a Shortage of Good Men, What Does That Mean for Men?
Re-Editing Old Books
Ten Theses on Marriage and Family (Newsletter #73)
Societal Fragmentation Creates Perverse Incentives
The Productive Urban Household (with Eric Brende)
Spotlight on American Reformer
Why You Shouldn't Play the Heel (Newsletter #72)
Where Should I Live?
The Return to Normal
Why Evangelicals Are Not Leaders in Our Society
A Primer On Doxxing (Newsletter #71)
The Non-Linearity of Change
Asymmetric Financial Warfare
American Elites Prey on the Poor By Promoting Vice
Why You Should Be Careful About How Online Critiques Affect You and Others (Newsletter #70)
Get Out and Vote This Election Day
What Is an Evangelical?
Accountability for Failure on the Covid Response
The Vocation of Masculinity (Newsletter #69)
The Lost America of the 1980s
You Didn't Build That
Understanding the Media's Reporting on Foreign Countries
Beware of the Contagiousness of Divorce (Newsletter #68)
The Corruption of American Competence
The Rise of Influence and the Decline of Authority
The History of Violence
BENJAMIN MABRY: A New American Aesthetic
Anti-Mangerial Aesthetics (Newsletter #67)
Why We Should Use Authentically American Language
In Praise of the Private Good (Newsletter #66)
Important and Feasible: Tools for Strategic Decision Making
Thoughts on the Reversal of Roe v. Wade
Why I Don't Use the Hero's Journey
The Missing Heroic Feminine (Newsletter #65)
The State of the Church (with Paul Vanderklay and Bethel McGrew)
The Quest for Legacy
Conservatives Don't Fund Art
This Is Your Country (Newsletter #64)
Life at the Cultural Center
Only the Paranoid Survive
Managerialism vs. Localism
ANDREW CRAPUCHETTES: Navigating the Woke Job Market
Outsider Cultural Change
Understanding the Managerial Revolution (Newsletter #63)
Immigration, Chaos and Order
STEPHEN B. CLARK: The Making of Man and Woman in Christ
America's Demographic Winter
Can You Be a Conservative in the City?
Building the Virtue of Self-Mastery (Newsletter #62)
You Can't See Into My Heart
The Third Worldization of America
THE BENHAM BROTHERS: Expert Ownership for a Hostile World
How to Build Local Community
MATT HENNESSEY: Generation X's Moment of Truth
JULIUS KREIN: Can Conservatism Be More Than a Grudge?
LYMAN STONE: Lutheranism in America
The Case Against the Case Against Bill Hybels
JOEL KOTKIN: Our Feudal Future
A Field Guide to Chambers of Commerce
You Can't Beat Something With Nothing
Beyond Economic Piety
How to Start Creating a Productive Urban Household
Passing on Our Patrimony Redux
SEAN CLIFFORD: Fighting Back Against Pornography
Are You Willing to Be the Elite?
RORY GROVES: Durable Trades
An Elite Church for the Elite
Don't Give in to Apocalyptic Thinking
MICHAEL FOSTER & DOMINIC TENNANT: It's Good to Be a Man
Lessons from the Way Mormons Choose Elites
JOHN MOODY: Resistance Is Fertile
Passing on Your Patrimony
Who Are the Evangelical Elite? And Are They Failing?
Kids These Days
Women Openly Dumping Their Husbands for Selfish Reasons
Protecting Your Opponents from Themselves
The Small Mindedness of the Middle Class
Learning from Marcuse
The Cultural Contradictions of Conservative Values
What to Think About When You Think About Moving
Do the Collapse
Mars Hill and Complementarianism
Why You Need to Know What's On Your Rap Sheet
Succession Planning in Churches
How We End Up With Pews Full of Older Singles
What We Can Learn from the Rosenberg Case
Classical Education Is Not Enough
Playing for Keeps
What Does It Really Mean to Be Red Pilled?
A Different Kind of Conservatism
A Man In Full
The Decline of the Gentleman
The Consequences of the Fall of the Establishment
The Evolution of the American Upper Class
The White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) Establishment
The Cost of the Decline of Mainline Protestantism
Two Virtues of Fundamentalism
A Report from the Gospel Coalition
Metaphors of Race Relations
Don't Let the News Cycle Set Your Agenda
Organic Community
The Composition of Bodies
Perceptions of Time
Once More Into the Breach
Changing Evangelicalism's Deal With the Republican Party
Rethinking Free Trade
Shills for Donors?
Two Cheers for Neoconservatism
Christianity, Conservatism and Crude Oil
The Social Origins of American Conservatism
The Founding of Conservatism
The Republican Party Hates Your Guts
Why It's So Important to Keep Your Morale Up
Legitimizing the Illegitimate
When Conservatives Won the Institutional Battle
The Methodist Church Split Is a Terrible Deal for Conservatives
Urban America's Labor Exploitation Racket
Regarding Tim Keller
Urban Christian Buddhism
Love Your City, Not Your Country
The Urban Church Has No Cultural Influence
The Post-Secular City
In the City for the City
The Theology of Pride
The Rise of the Elite City
The Great Global Urbanization Wave