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.
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The American System: How We Return To An Economy That Lifts All Americans
American Compass’s Wells King outlines his arguments from his essay on “Rediscovering a Genuine American System” in this adaption.
The Free-Market-Fundamentalist Menace
The Senate is finally back in Washington and negotiations over the next coronavirus recovery package are underway. The White House’s initial salvo was reported Monday and includes a capital gains tax cut, a measure to increase entertainment tax deductions, and a payroll tax cut.
On National Growth and Community Well-Being
For my inaugural post here on The Commons, I want to offer a few thoughts on how one of the pillars of the American Compass mission, community, has too often been a blind spot in the prevailing view of the economy.
This New Think Tank Wants To Reform Conservatism. Republicans Ignore It at Their Peril.
;Columnist Henry Olsen describes American Compass as a “tool with which future conservative leaders can guide the American ship of state.”
A Compass for Navigating the Right’s New Debates
AEI’s Yuval Levin reflects on the role of American Compass in strengthening the debate on the role of the state on the right.
Recovering the American Tradition of Economic Policy
American Compass’s Wells King and Oren Cass and American Affairs’ Julius Krein summarize their arguments from Rebooting the American System in this short adaptation.
Coronavirus Exposes a G.O.P. Divide: Is the Market Always Supreme?
The NYT features American Compass as a new organization with plans to foster debates on economic issues dividing the right, accentuated by the present national crisis.
Podcast: The Return of Conservative Economics
American Compass’s Oren Cass and Wells King join the Bill Walton Show to discuss Rebooting the American System.
Thinking Big to Act Small
American Compass proposes that conservatives revisit the question of whether a nation can afford an economic order without a “compass,” a guide that can provide a sense of direction national policy and shared intention. The question is essential, and the answers on offer on this site portend a new course for the American political order.
Special Episode of The Editors: Rich Lowry and Oren Cass
Rich Lowry interviews Oren Cass about the launch of American Compass.
Seven Questions for Oren Cass on the New Conservatism
TAC’s Jordan Bloom interviews Oren Cass about the launch of American Compass and the future of American conservatism.
Rebooting the American System
The comprehensive, conservative case for a return to robust national economic policy
Planning for When the Market Cannot
The fact that government planners are not omniscient is obvious, but it does not automatically follow that planning is always ineffective. Perfect information is simply not a precondition of successful planning in either the private or the public sectors.
Foreword: On Security
The American system of innovation, combining strategic investment and private enterprise, made our nation’s industry the envy of the world. It can pave the way for widespread prosperity and security again today.
Rediscovering a Genuine American System
Economic stability, national security, widely shared prosperity, strong families, a pluralistic society—in short, the American way of life—are achievements plainly worth conserving. So is the only approach to economic policy that has ever proved capable of producing them.
Foreword: On Resilience
America’s ability to meet the challenges of tomorrow rests on our conviction to turn a new economic page today.
Removing the Blinders From Economic Policy
Remove the blinders of economic fundamentalism, and it is impossible not to see the social, legal, historical, and institutional scaffolding that buttresses a growing economy, and the role that public policy must play in its construction and maintenance.
Conservatism in the Crisis
THE ECONOMIST—With delightful British spelling, The Economist reports on American Compass: “an impressive organisation” of the “dissident faction … led by some of the most interesting conservative thinkers” that rejects “market fundamentalism.”
Coronavirus Means the Era of Big Government Is…Back
American Compass’s Oren Cass argues that “one lesson we can and should learn from all this is that you can’t just flip a switch on strong, effective government when you need it.”
