Justin Shubow is the president of the National Civic Art Society, a non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. that promotes the classical and humanistic tradition in public art and architecture. He was also formerly the chairman of the US Commission of Fine Arts. He joins me to talk about our public buildings and how to make them beautiful. Note that this podcast includes a discussion of specific buildings. Pictures of these buildings are shown in the video version of the podcast...
Nov 18, 2024•41 min
Bestselling author Rod Dreher has a knack for putting his finger on what people are going to be talking about next. He's done it again with his new book on re-enchantment, Living in Wonder . He joins us today to talk about embracing what historian Tom Holland calls the "weird stuff" in Christianity. What does it mean for the world to be enchanted? Isn't enchantment just superstition? What does the trend towards psychedelics and the occult tell us about the public's longings? Are demons real? Not...
Nov 11, 2024•48 min
Os Guinness is an author and social critic. Yes, he is related to the Guinness brewing family. He has an incredible life story, being born in China to medical missionaries and living through the communist takeover there. He has a DPhil from Oxford and has been involved with many eminent organizations ranging from the Brookings Institution to the Trinity Forum. He’s also the author of many books, including his latest Our Civilizational Moment: The Waning of the West and the War of the Worlds , wh...
Nov 04, 2024•34 min
Delano Squires is a Research Fellow in Life, Religion and Family at the Heritage Foundation, and a contributor to the Blaze. He joins me today to talk about the enduring relevance of the call to manhood and family, and how to live that out in today's world. Subscribe to my newsletter: https://www.aaronrenn.com/
Oct 28, 2024•49 min
Stephen Eide is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute who studies homelessness and mental illness. He joins me to discuss his new article in National Affairs magazine about how to help the homeless and those who struggle at the very bottom of society. Read Eide's article: https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/uplifting-the-man-farthest-down Subscribe to my newsletter: https://www.aaronrenn.com/...
Oct 21, 2024•50 min
Austin Knuppe is an assistant professor of political science at Utah State University specializing in Foreign Policy, International Politics, Middle East Politics, and War. He's the author of a recent book on how Iraqis survived the Islamic State. He joins me to discuss Christians in the Middle East. Once sizable Christian populations there have declined noticeably in the past 100 years. He argues that America's Global War on Terror, however, has accelerated the decline of Christian communities ...
Oct 14, 2024•41 min
Journalist and AEI Senior Fellow Tim Carney joins me to discuss his new book Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be Read Jason Jewell's review of the book: https://americanreformer.org/2024/09/the-war-on-ordinary-families/ Buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/Family-Unfriendly-Culture-Raising-Harder-ebook/dp/B0C592J1TF/?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=theurban-20 Subscribe to my newsletter: https://www.aaronrenn.com/...
Oct 07, 2024•34 min
Nate Fischer, Founder and CEO of New Founding, joins us to talk about his firm's investment strategy, and particularly the macro forces that will be shaping the society and economy of tomorrow. Read the New Founding Strategy: https://www.newfounding.com/post/strategy Subscribe to my newsletter: https://www.aaronrenn.com/
Sep 30, 2024•59 min
While divorce rates have fallen from their peak, they are still very high, with women initiating the vast majority of them. The divorce rate among American Christians is also too high. While divorce is difficult for non-religious men, Christian men face unique issues. Their churches are likely to blame them for the divorce, and they are likely to lose their friend network at church as well. Men's devotional writer and podcaster Chris Bolinger joins me to discuss what Christian men need to know t...
Sep 23, 2024•48 min
James Davison Hunter is a renowned sociologist at the University of Virginia who introduced the term "culture war" to the US discourse. He's a leading expert on cultural change and cultural battles in America. He joins me to discuss his new book Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America's Political Crisis , which tells the deep cultural story underlying today's polarized politics. This important book describes the deep structure of American culture as resting on what he calls th...
Sep 09, 2024•49 min
Joshua Klein, editor of Mortise and Tenon magazine, joins me to talk about his love of traditional wood construction techniques, and the value of craftsmanship and manual work. In addition to the magazine, Klein is also an Associate Fellow in Mechanical Arts at Greystone Theological Institute. Buy Mortise and Tenon Magazine: https://www.mortiseandtenonmag.com/ Greystone Theological Institute: https://www.greystoneinstitute.org/ Subscribe to my newsletter: https://www.aaronrenn.com/...
Sep 03, 2024•54 min
Jon Tyson, founding and senior pastor of Church of the City in New York, joins me to talk about the urban church in today's world. Tyson discusses: How to deal with the constant population churn in the city? The differences between pre-Covid and post-Covid New York How Covid wiped out 70% of what Tim Keller and others built over the previous 35 years in terms of New York City church plants The flow of church planters into New York drying up What's unique about Generation Z? Includes that they do...
Aug 26, 2024•53 min
Oren Cass is founder of American Compass, a reformist center-right think tank seeking to look beyond dogmatic adherence to libertarian economics. He joins me to talk about the future of the American worker. American Compass: https://americancompass.org/ Subscribe to my newsletter: https://www.aaronrenn.com/
Aug 19, 2024•57 min
Artificial intelligence is the hot topic of the tech world today. But how do we make sense of it? Dean Ball is a Research Fellow in the Artificial Intelligence & Progress Project at the Mercatus Center, who also writes a Substack on the subject. He joins me to discuss this new AI technology and how to regulate it. Subscribe to Dean Ball's Substack: https://www.hyperdimensional.co/ Subscribe to my Substack: https://www.aaronrenn.com/...
Aug 12, 2024•1 hr 3 min
BYX (Beta, Upsilon, Chi in Greek, for Brothers Under Christ and pronounced "Bucks") is a Christian college fraternity. National director Jared Musgrove and Georgia chapter member Will Pesch join me to talk about this fraternity and how it shapes young men in a campus environment. BYX Website: https://byx.org/ Subscribe to my newsletter: https://www.aaronrenn.com/
Aug 05, 2024•33 min
Miami and South Florida have been booming. City of Miami Mayor Francis Suarez joins me to talk about their success and the "Miami model" of urbanism. We discuss: - Miami's transition from America's most dangerous big city to one of its safest. - Why Miami is an emerging national and global business center - The inflection points that boosted Miami's trajectory - How Mayor Suarez, a Republican, and his party have found success in a big, dense, diverse, heavily Latino city. - What Miami will do ne...
Jul 29, 2024•22 min
American Enterprise Institute scholar Yuval Levin joins me to discuss his new book American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—and Could Again . While many today argue that the US Constitution is dead or obsolete, Levin argues that the Constitution is actually the path forward for creating unity in our deeply divided republic. Buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/American-Covenant-Constitution-Unified-Nation_and/dp/0465040748/?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=theurban-20 Subscribe to m...
Jul 22, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Miles Smith is an assistant professor of history at Hillsdale College. He joins me to discuss what he learned from reading exvangelical memoirs and books about Christian nationalism. Miles Smith's "Reading the Exvangelicals": https://mereorthodoxy.com/reading-the-exvangelicals Subscribe to my newsletter: https://www.aaronrenn.com/
Jul 15, 2024•48 min
Matthew Peterson, editor-in-chief of the Blaze and founding editor of the American Mind, joins me to talk about the media and conservative media landscape in America today. Visit the Blaze: https://www.theblaze.com / Subscribe to my newsletter: https://www.aaronrenn.com/
Jul 08, 2024•46 min
Georgetown Professor Joshua Mitchell, author of the book American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time , joins me to talk about what factors caused the rise of identity politics in America. Buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/American-Awakening-Identity-Politics-Afflictions/dp/1641771305/?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=theurban-20 Subscribe to my newsletter: https://www.aaronrenn.com/...
Jul 01, 2024•54 min
Newsweek opinion editor Batya Ungar-Sargon joins me to discuss her recent book Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women. It's a look at the travails facing America's working class. Read my review of Second Class: https://www.city-journal.org/article/review-of-second-class-by-batya-ungar-sargon Buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/Second-Class-Betrayed-Americas-Working/dp/1641773618/?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=theurban-20 Subscribe to my newsletter: https://www.aaron...
Jun 24, 2024•33 min
Richard V. Reeves is the president of the American Institute for Boys and Men. He's also the author of the acclaimed book Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It. He joins me to discuss the problems facing today's American men, and why he thinks "keep it boring" is the right strategy. Buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/Boys-Men-modern-struggling-matters/dp/1800751036/?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=theurban-20 Visit the American Institute for Bo...
Jun 17, 2024•43 min
Farah Stockman is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and member of the New York Times editorial board. She's also the author of the great book American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears . Her book chronicles the closure and relocation to Mexico of a Rexnord bearing plant in Indianapolis in the wake of the 2016 presidential election. It focuses particularly on the lives of three workers in the plant. American Made is a detailed a moving portrait of the reality of industrial life ...
Jun 10, 2024•59 min
Jonathan Whitehead, a lawyer who has been active in Southern Baptist institutional life for many years, joins me to discuss the future of the SBC. We will focus on the SBC's upcoming convention in Indianapolis, where several key issues will be debated and addressed.
Jun 05, 2024•1 hr 31 min
Dr. Anthony Bradley joins me to talk about why the evangelical church struggles to attract men. We will discuss the state of men in America, the matrilineal nature of evangelicalism, and what needs to change to make the church more relevant. Bradley is the author of the book Heroic Fraternities: How College Men Can Save Universities and America. Buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/Heroic-Fraternities-College-Universities-America/dp/1666715530/ Evangelicalism is Matrilineal: https://mereorthodox...
May 20, 2024•1 hr 36 min
Dr. Ewan Goligher is a scientist at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute. He's the author of the book How Should We then Die?: A Christian Response to Physician-Assisted Death . He joins me to discuss physician-assisted suicide from a Christian point of view. Buy his book: https://www.amazon.ca/How-Should-then-Die-Physician-Assisted/dp/1683597478 Subscribe to my newsletter: https://www.aaronrenn.com/...
May 13, 2024•42 min
Three years ago I recorded a podcast series on the American postwar conservative moment. One of the episodes focused on the way that the nascent conservatives responded to the campus unrest of the 1960s. Since campus protests are again in the news, I'm reposting my thoughts from that old episode. Subscribe to my newsletter: https://www.aaronrenn.com/
May 06, 2024•17 min
Paul Carrese is the founding director of the School for Civic and Economic Though Leadership (SCETL) at Arizona State University. SCETL was established by an act of the state legislature to reinvigorate the idea of civics education as a core function of the public university. It is also a model for many other similar centers that have been established at other public universities around the country. Dr. Carrese joins me to discuss SCETL, and why it and centers like it are critical to the future ...
Apr 29, 2024•39 min
Luke Robson is on a mission to revitalize the downtown of Hillsdale, Michigan, the small town where Hillsdale College is located. He joins us to discuss his efforts and why he believes this is important. Subscribe to Luke's Hillsdale Renaissance Newsletter: https://hillsdalerenaissance.substack.com/ Subscribe to my newsletter: https://www.aaronrenn.com/
Apr 22, 2024•42 min
Your identity is the foundation and the heart of everything. Because if you don’t know who you are, you don’t know what to do . In this month's newsletter I discuss the importance of identity, and why many people in power in our society want to sever you from yours. Subscribe to my newsletter: https://www.aaronrenn.com/
Apr 15, 2024•10 min
