The Aaron Renn ShowDean 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 artificial intelligence and technology regulation.
DEAN BALL: Tech Regulation in an AI AgeThe Aaron Renn Show2024-08-01 | 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 artificial intelligence and technology regulation.
Subscribe to my Substack: aaronrenn.comJON ASKONAS: Building a Future in the Face of the ApocalypseThe Aaron Renn Show2024-10-19 | Jon Askonas is a professor of politics at Catholic University. He wrote an interesting piece for Comment magazine on how Americans went from seeing technology as a source of progress to viewing it as leading us to an apocalypse. He joins us to discuss: How and why did this shift take place? Why are we so anxious? How should we live in this age of anxiety?
Subscribe to my Newsletter: aaronrenn.comSTEPHEN EIDE: Uplifting the Man Furthest DownThe Aaron Renn Show2024-10-17 | 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.
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comDELANO SQUIRES: Manhood in the Modern AgeThe Aaron Renn Show2024-10-16 | 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: aaronrenn.comOS GUINNESS: Where Is Western Civilization Heading?The Aaron Renn Show2024-09-25 | Os Guinness is an author, social critic, and great-great-great grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer. He has written or edited more than 30 books that offer valuable insight into the cultural, political, and social contexts in which we all live. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of London and his D.Phil in the social sciences from Oriel College, Oxford.
He joins me to provide the bigger context around my "three worlds of evangelicalism" model. If American culture today is negative or skeptical towards Christianity, how did we get here? And where is Western civilization going?AUSTIN KNUPPE: The Fate of Middle Eastern ChristiansThe Aaron Renn Show2024-09-13 | Austin Knuppe is an assistant professor of political science at Utah State University specializing in Foreign Policy, International Politics, Middle East Politics, 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 in Middle Eastern countries.
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comWhy Hasnt the Left Won the Culture War?The Aaron Renn Show2024-09-10 | The left controls all the powerful, culture shaping institutions of society except the Supreme Court. So why haven't they been able to simply vanquish conservatives in the culture war? I asked sociologist James Davison Hunter, who coined the term "culture war" in English, about this in our recent interview.
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comHow Do You Get Out of a Culture War?The Aaron Renn Show2024-09-10 | Sociologist James Davison Hunter, who coined the term "culture war" in English, talks about what it would look like to escape our ongoing culture war.
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comTIM CARNEY: Americas Family Unfriendly CultureThe Aaron Renn Show2024-08-31 | 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
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comJAMES DAVISON HUNTER: Will America Come Apart?The Aaron Renn Show2024-08-29 | 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.
Dr. Hunter is also the publisher of the Hedgehog Review magazine: hedgehogreview.com
Subscribe to my podcast: aaronrenn.comCovid Destroyed 70% of What Tim Keller & Others Built in NYC Church Planting in the Prev 35 YearsThe Aaron Renn Show2024-08-26 | Jon Tyson, pastor of Church of the City in NYC, says that he estimates that 70% of what Tim Keller and others built in the previous 35 years in terms of New York City church plants was wiped away by Covid.
Note: The context of this clip appears to be church planting. Tim Keller's core Redeemer churches are still there, and the East Side congregation is constructing its own building.
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comNYC Is Less Different from the Rest of the Country Than It Used to BeThe Aaron Renn Show2024-08-26 | Jon Tyson, pastor of Church in the City in NYC, observes that because of social media, the culture of New York City is much closer to the rest of the country than it used to be, especially for Generation Z. There's been a cultural flattening among younger people.
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comGen Z Christians Dont Want to Plant ChurchesThe Aaron Renn Show2024-08-23 | Jon Tyson is the senior pastor of Church of the City in New York, which is 80% Gen Z. He explains that he encounters very few Gen Z Christians who want to plant new churches.
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comHow Do Pastors Deal with Congregational Churn in New York City?The Aaron Renn Show2024-08-23 | Jon Tyson, senior pastor of Church of the City in New York, talks about how dealing with a transient population is a fundamental fact of running a church in New York City. He says the biggest risk to churches there is that the constant flow of people moving out causes them to run out of love.
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comJON TYSON: Urban Church in the Negative WorldThe Aaron Renn Show2024-08-20 | 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. He 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 don't want to plant churches. - Why New York is not as different from the rest of the country culturally as it used to be. - The impact of the migrant influx on Manhattan - The future of the cultural engagement model of church - What he thinks of Trumpist culture war Christianity - How he talks about flashpoint cultural issues - Advice for church planters thinking about New York City.
Visit Church of the City: https://www.church.nyc/
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comCHRIS BOLINGER: How Christian Men Can Survive DivorceThe Aaron Renn Show2024-08-17 | 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 to survive divorce.
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comAmerican Tech Companies Will Stop Offering New Products in EuropeThe Aaron Renn Show2024-08-13 | With the EU determined to be a "regulatory superpower" on technology, and its general rejection of free speech, Dean Ball of the Mercatus Center argues that in the future American tech companies may choose not to roll out new services in Europe.
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comNATE FISCHER: The Macro Trends Shaping Tomorrows WorldThe Aaron Renn Show2024-08-08 | 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.
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comJOSHUA KLEIN: Preserving the Art of Traditional Wood ConstructionThe Aaron Renn Show2024-08-08 | 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.
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comOREN CASS: The Future of the American WorkerThe Aaron Renn Show2024-08-07 | 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.MAYOR FRANCIS SUAREZ: The Miami Model of UrbanismThe Aaron Renn Show2024-07-29 | 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 next that will surprise people.
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comYUVAL LEVIN: The Constitution Is the SolutionThe Aaron Renn Show2024-07-20 | 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.
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comJARED MUSGROVE and WILL PESCH: Brothers Under Christ (BYX) - The Christian FraternityThe Aaron Renn Show2024-07-19 | 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.
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comDont Underestimate the Long Term Consequences of Not Having a FamilyThe Aaron Renn Show2024-07-11 | Marriage and birth rates are down. Younger Americans often don't want a family or aren't focused on it. But people make decisions when they are young without really understanding the long term consequences - or without understanding that they may well feel very differently later in life.
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comMen - You Matter Too #masculintyThe Aaron Renn Show2024-07-11 | Men, you are important you. You matter. Your health, well-being, hopes, dreams, and plans are important. You are not just important because of what you can do for other people. You matter because you are important in your own right.
#shortsEvery Man Needs a Band of BrothersThe Aaron Renn Show2024-07-11 | Every man needs a band of brothers. But too few men have any close friends today. Male fraternity is the easiest thing in the world to overlook. But we need it. We need other men to encourage us, to challenge us, and to affirm us when we measure up.
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comMILES SMITH: Lessons from Reading Exvangelical MemoirsThe Aaron Renn Show2024-06-25 | 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.
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comMATTHEW PETERSON: The Future of Conservative MediaThe Aaron Renn Show2024-06-22 | 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.
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comYou Need to Know How the World Actually WorksThe Aaron Renn Show2024-06-21 | You need to know how the world works. Not just how people tell you it works, or how you would like it to work, but how it actually does work.
Thirty years ago you were at the mercy of what you were told by the local newspaper, the TV networks, teachers, parents, etc. You had no choice to believe what they told you because there wasn't access to alternative sources of information. While they told us a lot of true things, they also said a lot of things that were just wrong.
Today is golden age for knowledge acquisition. There's a lot of misinformation out there, but today you really can do the research in a way that was not possible a generation ago.
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comCultivating VirtueThe Aaron Renn Show2024-06-21 | Men need to cultivate virtue in their lives. This isn's just moral uprightness, although it includes that. It’s cultivating excellences across multiple dimensions of virtue: the theological virtues, the cardinal virtues, the tactical virtues, etc.
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comYou Must Believe That There Is Something You Can Do to ChangeThe Aaron Renn Show2024-06-20 | It's critical for men to have a sense of agency. You have to believe that it is possible to take action to change your circumstances to the better, to take positive steps towards progress in your mission.
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comJOSHUA MITCHELL: The Roots of the Great AwokeningThe Aaron Renn Show2024-06-20 | 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.
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comEvery Man Needs to Have a Mission in LifeThe Aaron Renn Show2024-06-19 | Every many should have a mission in life, things that he's driving towards and aspiring to. My most important message to men would be: you matter. Your hopes, dreams, aspirations, and plans - your mission - are important too.
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comBATYA UNGAR-SARGON: How the Elites Betrayed Americas Working Men and WomenThe Aaron Renn Show2024-06-19 | 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.
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comIf you dont know who you are, then you dont know what to doThe Aaron Renn Show2024-06-19 | Your identity is the most foundational part of who you are as a man. If you don't know who you are, then you don't know what to do.
#shortsWho Are You? Your Identity Is the Foundation of Everything Else in LifeThe Aaron Renn Show2024-06-19 | Identity. Your identity is foundational to everything else in your life. Because if you don't know who you are, then you don't know what to do. One of the best examples of this principle is from the Walt Disney film "The Lion King," in which Simba cannot reclaim is rightful throne and restore justice and flourishing to the land until he knows who he is.
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comWhy Wont You Christians Apply Your Standards That We Reject and Hate to Donald Trump?!The Aaron Renn Show2024-06-10 | The secular left is incensed that Christians refuse to apply Christian standards to judge Donald Trump unfit for office, when those leftists themselves completely reject and even hate those Christian values.
This is part of my appearance on Dr. Al Mohler's Thinking in Public Podcast. Watch the full interview at: youtube.com/watch?v=EVwp--j12Ag
#shortsSecular Leftists Promoted the Social Changes that Made It Possible for Trump to Become PresidentThe Aaron Renn Show2024-06-10 | The secular leftists who are horrified by Donald Trump are the very people who promoted the social changes that made it possible for him to become President.
This is part of my appearance on Dr. Al Mohler's Thinking in Public Podcast. Watch the full interview at: youtube.com/watch?v=EVwp--j12Ag
#shortsThe Culture Wants to Make a Buck Off Your Suffering #masculinityThe Aaron Renn Show2024-06-10 | Society is pushing all sorts of dangerous things like drugs, gambling, and porn so that people can make a buck off of your suffering.
This is part of my appearance on Dr. Al Mohler's Thinking in Public Podcast. Watch the full interview at: youtube.com/watch?v=EVwp--j12Ag
#shortsWhat Used to be Mafia Activities Are Now Fully Legitimate BusinessesThe Aaron Renn Show2024-06-10 | Things that used to be the province of shady characters like the mob - gambling, drugs, loan sharking - are now legal, fully legitimate businesses in our society. It's easier than ever to ruin your life.
This is part of my appearance on Dr. Al Mohler's Thinking in Public Podcast. Watch the full interview at: youtube.com/watch?v=EVwp--j12Ag
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comThe Negative World Puts Subtle Social Pressures on ChristiansThe Aaron Renn Show2024-06-10 | The negative world does not operate by government coercion but by subtle, indirect social and economic pressures on American Christians to bring their beliefs into alignment with secular ideologies.
This is part of my appearance on Dr. Al Mohler's Thinking in Public Podcast. Watch the full interview at: youtube.com/watch?v=EVwp--j12Ag
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comRICHARD REEVES: The Struggles of the Modern American MaleThe Aaron Renn Show2024-06-08 | 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.
Visit the American Institute for Boys and Men: aibm.org
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comTheres No Bible Verse For What to Do With Your Retirement AccountThe Aaron Renn Show2024-06-03 | Dr. Anthony Bradley explains that when evangelicals only speak to things they can directly attach a Bible verse to, it leaves a vast field of life wide open for online influencers to take over.
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comInfluencers give men really practical adviceThe Aaron Renn Show2024-06-03 | Unlike traditional authorities, online influencers are giving young men really practical, useful advice.
#shortsOnline Influences Give Men Really Practical AdviceThe Aaron Renn Show2024-06-03 | While churches focus on a general vision how to be a godly husband, online influencers give men really practical advice around diet, exercise, business, etc.
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comThe Church Is Disconnected From the Questions Young Men Are AskingThe Aaron Renn Show2024-06-03 | The church talks to men only about a handful of issues - sexual purity, being a servant leader at home - but is not addressing the actual questions that young people are turning to online influencers to find answers for.I just dont think theres a sense that men can be goodThe Aaron Renn Show2024-06-03 | Dr. Anthony Bradley says that society treats men coming to power as the source of bad things in the world, rather than telling young men that if they are virtuous, then good things will happen if they come to power.
#shortsWhen Virtuous Men Come to Power, Good Things Will HappenThe Aaron Renn Show2024-06-03 | Dr. Anthony Bradley talks about how society sees men as the source of problems, rather than telling them that if they are virtuous, good things will happen when they come into power.
Subscribe to my newsletter: aaronrenn.comIts masculinity by negationThe Aaron Renn Show2024-06-03 | Dr. Anthony Bradley says that society just tells men to be less bad, but it never gives them a positive vision of what they should be. It's masculinity by negation.
#shortsIts Masculinity By NegationThe Aaron Renn Show2024-06-03 | Dr. Anthony Bradley says that men are simply being told to be less bad, not being provided with any positive vision of what they should be doing. It's masculinity by negation.