Aaron Renn

Brad Wilcox and James Lynch have a great essay in Compact about how the GOP learned to love vice:

Given their self-conception of sturdy American virtues such as thrift, hard work, and sobriety, you’d think the GOP would be at the forefront i...

This month’s podcast for Members is a deeper dive on evangelicals and AI.

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California pastor Justin Lester leads a church (gift link) whose members thought technology was “the mark of the beast” when he arrived, but where today the doors us...

My recent essay on the crisis of local leadership, From Titans to Technocrats, was inspired by an op-ed by longtime Columbus, Ohio economic development person Mark Barbash. I’m delighted to have him on the podcast this week to talk about leadership transformation i...

The standard view since Trump’s 2016 election win is that while the left dominated in traditional media, the right dominated in online and social media. A significant number of people on the right seemed to believe that the left was not even capable of succeeding online, as summarized in the idea of “