Presidential Candidates Are Ignoring Ordinary Voters’ Needs
In this commentary for the Financial Times, Cass considers what the presidential candidates would be talking about if workers and their interests were of primary concern
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When Market Economists Fail
American Compass’s Oren Cass critiques public choice theory as applied in defense of a libertarian agenda.
Biden and Trump Are Failing the American Worker
American Compass’s Oren Cass argues that neither Biden nor Trump has given the necessary attention to issues like industrial, education, and labor policy that could help American workers.
Ending with a Starting Point
Would sectoral bargaining provide a better framework for American labor law?
The Long and Winding Road to Reform
Would sectoral bargaining provide a better framework for American labor law?
America Needs a Conservative Labor Movement
American Compass’s Oren Cass argues that a strong, reformed labor movement has unique potential to advance conservative priorities.
The Vanishing American Dream: The Economic Realities Facing Middle- and Lower-Income Americans
American Compass’s Oren Cass participated in a symposium on “The Vanishing American Dream,” as part of the Brookings Institution’s Future of the Middle Class Initiative, discussing the political roots of economic issues facing lower- and middle-income Americans.
Q&A with Freelancers Union Founder Sara Horowitz
Labor law has failed to evolve alongside a changing labor market. Some labor leaders have been moving ahead anyway.
Would Sectoral Bargaining Provide a Better Framework for American Labor Law?
Labor leader David Rolf and American Compass’s Oren Cass discuss the potential for sectoral bargaining in America.
Sectoral Bargaining’s Promise and Peril
Would sectoral bargaining provide a better framework for American labor law?
A Free Market Manifesto That Changed the World, Reconsidered
American Compass’s Oren Cass joins a wide range of economists and business leaders to discuss Milton Friedman’s essay, “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits,” on its 50th anniversary.
Republican Party Battles Over its Post-Trumpian Soul
American Compass’s Oren Cass spotlights the ideological contest between libertarian Republicans and post-Trump conservatives for the future identity of the American political right.
The Elite Needs to Give Up Its G.D.P. Fetish
American Compass’s Oren Cass suggests that the professional class might learn from the pandemic that “material living standards” do not always translate into “quality of life.”
From the Primordial Supply-Side Soup
This morning’s commentary from the Wall Street Journal editorial board is of great scientific import, a fragile creature crushed into a perfectly preserved fossil by the forces of reality. Future researchers tracing the evolution of the American right-of-center from market fundamentalism to a viable economic conservatism will regard it as a vital transitional form—like a fish with legs but no lungs: laughably incoherent, woefully unsuited to its environment, and yet also an unmistakable sign of progress and a harbinger of better things to come.
How Trump Has Changed the Republicans
The Saturday Essay features American Compass’s efforts to construct a new conservative governing philosophy.
The Republican Party Has A Tough Choice To Make
American Compass’s Oren Cass describes the “vital opportunity for the American right-of-center to develop a genuinely conservative economic platform that focuses on working families.”
A Major Question Still Remains for Biden’s Campaign
American Compass’s Oren Cass reviews Joe Biden’s acceptance speech for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
How Corporate Actual Responsibility, Not Social Responsibility, Would Look
American Compass’s Oren Cass outlines the arguments from an open letter sent to the Business Roundtable calling for corporate actual responsibility.
Constraining the Corporation
Business leaders have lost contact with the communities and institutions that might hold them accountable, escaped from the oversight and regulation that would channel their activities, and proven themselves shameless in the face of whatever weak standards of decency the culture still attempts to muster.
Q&A with MIT’s Zeynep Ton
Good jobs benefit workers and boost corporate performance, so why aren’t there more of them?
