RECOMMENDED READING
If knowledge is power, then it follows that groups of the knowledgeable are even more powerful. …
It’s to help upgrade conservatism that Oren Cass has founded a new group, American Compass. Cass has an interesting background: He once worked for Mitt Romney, the epitome of the old orthodoxy, and yet he himself first made a splash in 2014 when he published a cover story for National Review on China, entitled, bluntly, “Fight the Dragon.”
Cass argued that our trade policy toward the People’s Republic was dangerously naive from a strategic point of view, as well as hideously obtuse from a political point of view; that is, all those blue-collar workers knew they were getting the shaft, even as officialdom, in both parties, was happy-talking the stale orthodoxy.
Recommended Reading
The Future of American Energy with Thomas Hochman
Oren and Thomas discuss American energy policy, the promise of nuclear, climate change, regulatory hurdles, and much more.
Michael Pettis on Dollar Dominance
Oren is joined by Michael Pettis for an in-depth discussion of the dollar as the global reserve currency: pros, cons, and what it all means for the American economy.
How Republicans learnt to love bigger government
The era of “the era of big government is over” may itself now be over, writes Oren Cass in the Financial Times.
