The basic quandary for economists in this debate is that they stake their claims to expertise and deference on their fieldâs purported rigor, but they can uphold their own standards only under artificial conditions inapplicable to policymaking. As a result, their workâs defensibility bears an inverse relationship to its relevance.
Despite the priority traditionally given to the free flow of capital, many now argue that Beijing should be the exception, writes American Compass executive director Oren Cass.
The question is not will we manage our economyâs interaction with the global market, but how, writes American Compass executive director Oren Cass.
Mutual dependence between capital and labor, not mere âeconomic freedom,â is what Adam Smith so ably described. Globalization destroys it.
Oren Cass discusses new American Compass research on the effects of globalization on American workers and domestic jobs.
While the share of American jobs requiring a college degree has increased in recent decades, the share of workers holding college degrees has risen much faster.
Oren Cass and author Freddie Deboer discuss the left and right cases against the college-for-all system that dominates American education.
Political economy has no inviolable truths. Anything that economists or political scientists claim as inviolable truth, then, is incompleteâit may hold within the narrow confines of their analysis, but it will not hold in reality over the long run.
Oren Cass makes the case that the Republicans must move beyond the dog-eared 1980s playbook of tax cuts and deregulation if they are to succeed.
According to a new American Compass survey, parents have a different answer than activists and policymakers do, writes Oren Cass.
We have adapted Senator Rubioâs speech as an essay, which we are pleased to present as this weekâs Compass Point: Trading It All Away.
Public education’s primary purpose is preservation of our democratic republic.
At the second National Conservatism conference, Oren Cass discusses the importance of worker power to the future of conservatism.
American Compass executive director Oren Cass reviews Glenn Hubbardâs new book, The Wall and the Bridge, and discusses the limits of market fundamentalism.
Twenty years into the foolish experiment of Chinese ascension to the World Trade Organization, America now has a strategic peer whose values and goals in conflict with our own. We have committed to an international system on the assumption that we would set its course, and face a hoisting by our own petard if adversaries gain leverage within its institutions.
American Compass executive director explains what workers wantâand are not gettingâfrom organized labor in the U.S. today.
In this weekâs Compass Point, Marginal Prophets, Matthew Walther turns his perceptive gaze to the âmagical thinkingâ of neoliberalism, and brings along a delightful guide: 19th-century anthropologist James Frazer, author of The Golden Bough and keen observer of humanityâs superstitious traditions and priestly castes.
In this weekâs Compass Point, The Snowflakes Arenât Melting, Michael Brendan Dougherty offers a sharp, revisionist account of âsafetyism.â The term commonly refers to the phenomenon of young people coddled through their childhoods and thus unable to cope with the conflicts and travails of adulthood.
Lindâs essay marks the launch of a new series, The Compass Point, that will present in-depth commentary from leading scholars and writers on topics vital to the future of conservatism. Expect them most Fridays over the next couple of months.
American Compassâs Oren Cass and Wells King discuss the pitfalls of âevidence-based policymakingâ and the importance of prioritizing work and long-term effects in designing the Child Tax Credit.
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