Trump-allied Republicans are changing the GOPās approach to labor, free markets and regulation
CNBC’s Eamon Javers features American Compass in a discussion of the new conservative economic populism taking hold among Republicans.
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A New Centrism Is Rising in Washington
Call it neopopulism: a bipartisan attitude that mistrusts the free-market ethos instead of embracing it.
Oren Cass on Curbing the Free Market
On the DishCast with Andrew Sullivan, Oren Cass goes deep on conservative economics and much more.
Surprising Consensus on the Productivity Problem
A new AEI paper reaches the same conclusion as American Compass: Rising inequality for American workers is a problem.
Republicansā appetite for government
Most want expansion, not cuts, of entitlement programs, according to American Compass survey.
Constructing Conservatism in the Secular Age
What should conservative politics look like at a time when many Americans are no longer religious?
Constructing Conservatism in the Secular Age
Oren Cass, executive director of American Compass, delivers the 2024 First Things Lecture in Washington, D.C. His lecture is entitled “Constructing Conservatism in the Secular Age.”
The Media and Conservatism with David Leonhardt, Emily Jashinsky, and Idrees Kahloon
How can the media better understand the reality of American life outside the Beltway, and what are reporters missing about these shifting economic and political debates?
Realignment Politics with Jerry Seib, Michael Brendan Dougherty, and Tim Chapman
What does the right-of-center’s economic debate mean for political leaders and how is it being translated into electoral politics in 2024 and beyond?
The Future of Conservative Economics with Julius Krein, Michael Strain, and Rana Foroohar
How is conservative thinking about economic policy and the role of government changing?
John A. Burtka IV on Building a Better Elite
On this episode, Oren Cass is joined by John A. Burtka IV to discuss how to cultivate and educate a better elite, what the āmirrors for princesā tradition has to teach todayās leaders, and aristo-populism.
Oren Cass: āTrump is an inherently time-limited phenomenonā
The pro-worker policy wonk who wants to save the Republican Party from itself.
Among US Conservatives, the Dial Is Finally Shifting on Welfare
But older anti-government institutions still need to realise that the mistakes of the 1960s are not being repeated
Is the Republican Partyās Refusal to Raise Taxes Fiscally Irresponsible?
American Compass’s Oren Cass and Club for Growth’s David McIntosh debate how conservatives should approach taxes and spending.
The Persistence of Market Fundamentalism
The sacred texts don’t say what their keepers claim they do.
New Survey Shows Biden Economic Policies Polarize Voters
The presidentās policies divide Democrats and the upper class from everyone else
Free Tradeās Origin Myth
American elites accepted the economic theory of ācomparative advantageā mainly because it justified their geopolitical agenda.
Is Romneyās former adviser building the post-Trump GOP?
Oren Cass has made a name for himself rejecting the old conservative economic consensus.
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