Aaron M. Renn

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  • Oct 3, 2025
    COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter riots put big holes in America’s downtowns beginning in 2020. Corporations went to remote work for well over a year, which meant very few people...
  • Sep 18, 2025
    Many people today argue that we need to reshore manufacturing to boost the economic fortunes of the working class. Retaining the ability to produce physical goods is important even...
  • Aug 8, 2025
    Americans like to believe we have the best of everything. But there’s one exception where people are willing to admit we fall short: high-speed rail. Americans travel to Europe...
  • Jul 4, 2025
    There’s a genre of right-wing social media posting that’s dedicated to retro-Americana aesthetics: Norman Rockwell paintings, pictures of cute New England towns, preppy...
  • Jul 3, 2025
    Detroit is on the way up. To understand the significance of that, you must know that for decades, Detroit was a byword for American urban decline. It was the major American city that...
  • May 29, 2025
    Artificial intelligence is the hottest sector in tech. Many believe it will be as transformational as the Internet itself.  Today’s AI systems require vast amounts of...
  • Apr 30, 2025
    The population of the United States is 340 million. That of China is 1.4 billion. This leads some to suggest the United States needs more people in order to be competitive on...