01:00 Aaron Renn: When Selfishness Becomes Celebrated: How modern culture repackages marital abandonment as radical self-love, with little counter-narrative from religious voices,
https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/selfish-abandonment
09:00 Dennis Prager’s First Public Message
11:00 Rodney Martin needs your prayers
24:00 Aaron Renn: Tradcons Are the Enemy of the American Man, https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/tradcons-are-the-enemy-of-the-american
30:00 How to navigate a low trust America, https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/betrayal
39:00 There’s Never Been a Better Time to Be a Man in America, https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/a-good-time-to-be-a-man
45:20 How J.D. Vance Avoided Becoming Pete Buttigieg, https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/vance-buttigieg
52:00 The Basis of Attraction, https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/newsletter-17-the-basis-of-attraction
57:20 The Valorization of Selfishness: Society’s message today is too often that you should care more about yourself and your own pleasure, https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/selfishness
1:06:00 Christians are not persecuted in America but all is not well, https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/persecution
1:15:00 NYT: At Columbia, Tension Over Gaza Protests Hits Breaking Point Under Trump, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/nyregion/columbia-university-trump-protests.html
1:22:00 The differences and implications of the buffered identity vs the porous identity, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=159273
1:27:20 Mark Halperin on Trump’s First 100 Days, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJC46Ng110k
1:36:00 More Universities Are Choosing to Stay Neutral on the Biggest Issues, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/institutional-neutrality-universities-free-speech.html
1:40:00 Women and the Attractiveness Curve, https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/newsletter-18-women-and-the-attractiveness
1:55:00 Implications of the Rise of Online Dating, https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/newsletter-50-the-truth-about-online
2:01:00 NYT: Ambitious Democrats Have a New Game Plan: Yak It Up About Sports, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/us/politics/democrats-sports-podcasts-male-voters.html
2:07:00 All events are ephemeral, https://www.ft.com/content/c0734fa8-9b29-4f8e-848d-589dc92edbb8
2:12:45 Why do Christian men keep proclaiming: “I’m Not Worthy of This Woman”, https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/im-not-worthy-of-this-woman
2:16:20 Here’s What Conservative Institutional Capture Looks Like, https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/capturing-institutions
2:21:00 Beauty Is Not Just in the Eye of the Beholder, https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/beauty
2:24:00 Anti-Trump evangelicals are very organized and well-funded, https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/the-resistance-will-be-organized
2:26:00 Anti-Trump evangelicals are very organized and well-funded, https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/the-resistance-will-be-organized
2:31:00 Aaron Renn: Affinity Group Migration and the Quest for Community, https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/the-resistance-will-be-organized
2:36:00 Become Illegible: In the negative world, people should look at ways to become less visible to governments and other entities
2:40:50 Why Men Hate Going to Church (with David Murrow), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqeJFtMD-k4
2:48:00 The Emergence of the Post-Religious Right, https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/the-emergence-of-the-post-religious
2:54:00 Conservative Elites Prefer Living in Progressive Elite Cities, https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/conservative-elites-prefer-living
3:01:00 The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/protestant-deformation/
3:16:00 Jesse Waters
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