The Aaron Renn Show

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 discuss...

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 supers...

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, i...

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/

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...

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 a...

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...

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/

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&ap...

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&a...

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: http...

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 Th...

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/

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/ Subscri...

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/

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...

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-C...

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/

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/

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.aar...

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-Am...

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-...

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 thr...

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.

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-Fratern...