RECOMMENDED READING
In March, a group of conservative thinkers started a new organization called American Compass, which aims to move the Republican Party past clichĂŠs about Ronald Reaganâs policies.
âApplying conservative principles doesnât mean just keep flipping through the 1980 playbook until you find the right tax cut,â said Oren Cass, a founding member of American Compass who serves as its executive director.
âIt has to mean going back to the actual principles, and applying them to today’s challenges,â Cass said in an interview on âThe Long Game,â a Yahoo News podcast. âI think thatâs something that a lot of folks on right-of-center have gotten, frankly, lazy about, and that thereâs just a lot of entrenched orthodoxy that does not come in for questioning.â
Recommended Reading
Seven Questions for Oren Cass on the New Conservatism
TACâs Jordan Bloom interviews Oren Cass about the launch of American Compass and the future of American conservatism.
Why GOP Can’t Stop Pushing Tax Cuts
American Compass’s Oren Cass discusses the next round of GOP proposals to address the coronavirus pandemic.
Rubio Raises Profile in Pandemic, Challenges GOP Economics
Rubioâs essays and speeches on his idea of common-good capitalism draw heavily from his Catholicism and from the work of policy experts such as American Compass’s Oren Cass.
