Lessons on Industrial Policy from Silicon Valley and Ronald Reagan
On this episode of “The Federalist Radio Hour,” Wells King joins Emily Jashinsky to discuss how policymakers can harness history to address the economic problems of today.
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Myth-Busting Silicon Valley
American Compass’s Wells King argues that Silicon Valley’s founder myth has things backward, misunderstanding the source of the regime’s power and flattering its worst instincts.
Silicon Valley’s Public Garages
The indispensable and effective role of public policy in building the digital age
Uncle Sam’s Top-Performing Venture Fund
With the Small Business Innovation & Research program, Congress helped build many of the nation’s most innovative firms.
An Early Conservative Victory in the War on Big Tech
American Compass research director Wells King discusses a promising conservative bill to rein in Big Tech’s monopoly power.
The American Camry
Wells King and Dan Vaughn, Jr. on how Reagan showed it was possible to wrangle foreign manufacturers to the U.S.
The Import Quota that Remade the Auto Industry
President Reagan negotiated a quota on Japanese imports that bought Detroit time to retool and spurred massive foreign investment in a new manufacturing base in the South.
Our Politics Needs a Pro-Family Policy Agenda
American Compass research director Wells King joins a statement in support of building a truly pro-family policy agenda.
After Student-Debt Relief, America Must Move Beyond ‘College for All’
American Compass research director Wells King argues for building real alternatives to the “college-for-all” education pipeline in the wake of Biden’s misguided student loan forgiveness.
State Capacity in Short Supply: Assessing the Biden Administration’s Industrial Strategy
American Compass’s Wells King and Chris Griswold evaluate the Biden administration’s approach to industrial strategy and what it shows about the policy failures of the established ruling class.
Conservative Family Policy Must Be Conservative
On family policy, conservatives should avoid two extremes: rebutting any use of government, and assuming that trillions can be spent without negative repercussions.
College Is Not for All
American Compass’s Oren Cass and Wells King discuss the reality that most young Americans miss out on commencement.
Foreword: What’s in Your Toolbox?
American education must be equipped with diverse tools fit for students’ diverse aspirations.
What Family Policy Should Look Like in Post-Roe America
American Compass’s Wells King and Brad Wilcox of the Institute for Family Studies and AEI make the case for a conservative embrace of an expanded Child Tax Credit in a post Roe v. Wade world.
The Decline and Fall of NASCAR
America’s most Southern sport has betrayed its own fan base, writes American Compass’s Wells King in this cover story.
Globalization: America’s Biggest Bipartisan Mistake
American Compass research director Wells King explores the history of the Uniparty’s push for globalization at all costs and the fallacies undergirding their arguments.
Woke Capitalism Is a Smokescreen
American Compass research director Wells King argues that woke corporate activism attempts to launder self-interest through liberal ideology and to renege on actual obligations.
Realignment Conference: The Future of Populism
American Affairs’s Julius Krein, American Compass’s Wells King, and the Niskanen Center’s Samuel Hammond discuss the new right, populism, and the debate over neoliberalism.
A Better Bargain: Worker Solidarity and Mutual Support
Straightforward federal reforms could enable state and local governments to partner with new labor organizations in administer portable benefits and sector-wide training.
The Labor Movement Is ‘Woking’ Itself to Death
American Compass research director Wells King explores the failures of the modern American labor movement and what workers really want from unions.
