Aaron M. Renn

1 week ago | aaronrenn.com | Aaron M. Renn

I was in New York City this week for some meetings in the Midtown area, particularly around Bryant Park. Bryant Park is a must visit if you ever go to the city. And if you are in that area, here are a few stores to check out:Kinokuniya (1073 6th Ave). It’s the rare US outpost of a Japanese bookstore chain. Lots of English language products as well as great content from Japan such as a great selection of washi paper and Japanese magazines. Muji (475 5th Ave).

1 week ago | aaronrenn.com | Aaron M. Renn

If you want to understand why Baby Boomers have been and remain so influential and dominant in our world, baptist pastor John Piper’s famous “seashells” sermon from 2000 will help explain it. Trust me, this is relevant even if you aren’t a Christian. Piper’s sermon at the Passion Conference for college students was one of the most influential religious talks of the past quarter century.

1 week ago | theaquilareport.com | Aaron M. Renn

While the specifics of what our society looks like are contingent, now that we’ve arrived at a definitely post-Christian culture, we should expect that the bourgeois values associated with zombie Protestantism would largely disappear. And they have. It’s no secret that America’s working classes – more broadly, those without college degrees and professional jobs – have been living increasingly socially dysfunctional lives.

2 weeks ago | aaronrenn.com | Aaron M. Renn

There will be no podcast on Monday in honor of the US Memorial Day holiday. I’m curious what your interest would be in more men’s lifestyle content. Please leave a comment on hit Reply to let me know your thoughts. Erika Bachiochi wrote a piece for the Institute for Family Studies that concludes:If men are leaders of families—which I think they have the responsibility to be—then men are going to have to lead here as well.

2 weeks ago | newgeography.com | Aaron M. Renn

It’s no secret that America’s working classes - more broadly, those without college degrees and professional jobs - have been living increasingly socially dysfunctional lives. This was documented well by Robert Putnam in Our Kids and Charles Murray in Coming Apart. Just as one example, America has the highest share of its children living in single parent households of any country in the world. This has profound negative consequences for our country.