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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…
5 hrs ago • 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 • Aaron M. Renn
There's a Playbook for College. There Should Be One for Marriage.
The costs of putting off marriage and children don't show up for decades — and by the time they do, the window to choose otherwise has often closed.
Jun 3 • Aaron M. Renn
Stephen Colbert Didn't Get Cancelled - Mass Culture Did
From 55 million to 6.7 million viewers in 34 years — and what that tells us about the end of America's shared mass-media, mass-consumer culture.
May 27 • Aaron M. Renn

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The End of the Moral Majority
The pro-life movement is one of the first casualties of a political architecture built for a country that no longer exists
May 20 • Aaron M. Renn
The Three Ages of Boss Rule
The era of political machine bosses is remembered as one of corruption. It was also one that mastered important arts of politics and government we've…
May 14 • Stephen Eide
Protestantism's Institutional Problem
A serious hurdle to Protestant academics
May 7 • Jordan B. Cooper

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Aaron Renn
Aaron Renn
The human, cultural, and institutional foundations of American flourishing during civilizational transition
Start Here
The End of the Middle-Class Magic Kingdom
The Rich, the Poor, and the Ultra-Rich
Rediscovering a Sociology of Elites
There Is No Boomer Succession Plan
How J.D. Vance Rejected Evangelicalism
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NYT: He Gave a Name to What Many Christians Feel
"A kind of Malcolm Gladwell of conservative Christianity"
Life in the Negative World (book)
Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture

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