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The End of the Cool City
What a trip to Seattle and Portland taught me about commodified cities, collapsing downtowns, and why conservatives keep losing the culture they refuse…
Jul 7
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Aaron M. Renn
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Happy Birthday, Whoever You Are
On its 250th birthday, America no longer agrees on who it is — and a nation that forgets its story cannot stay one people.
Jul 6
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John Seel, Ph.D.
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June 2026
Suburbs and Sacred Space
War memorials, cathedrals, and the anti-human scale: why the transcendent still lives downtown
Jun 25
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Aaron M. Renn
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Red Families, Blue Families, One Crisis
Economic stratification, social atomization, and moral drift are breaking families on both sides of the culture war
Jun 23
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Benjamin L. Mabry
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The Vanishing Black Family | Delano Squires
In this week’s podcast, Delano Squires joins me to discuss his new book The Vanishing Black Family. We discuss how slavery badly deformed but did not…
Jun 22
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Aaron M. Renn
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The Cost of Personal Optimization
The self-optimization culture, priestly formation, AI futures and more in this week's digest.
Jun 19
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Aaron M. Renn
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The Evangelical Business Mindset
Evangelicals are remarkably good at making money and remarkably bad at turning it into cultural power.
Jun 17
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Aaron M. Renn
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Opus Dei Is Smart
In this month’s Member only podcast, I discuss a recent Financial Times hit piece on the Catholic group Opus Dei, and how it actually ends up making…
Jun 16
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Aaron M. Renn
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Blue America's Family Values
Blue families in big cities, evangelicals selling out singles, and more in this week's digest.
Jun 12
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Aaron M. Renn
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From Titans to Technocrats
Today's urban leaders are more polished, more inclusive, and more powerless than the Titans they replaced — which is why the hardest problems go…
Jun 10
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Aaron M. Renn
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The 100-Year Rise of the Information Control State | Jacob Siegel
How did “disinformation” become the all-purpose explanation for American politics?
Jun 8
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Aaron M. Renn
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The New Color of Money
Grey haired wealth, cheating, the power of Quakerism, and more in this week's digest
Jun 5
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Aaron M. Renn
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