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Fiscal Conservatives Should Care About Trade Deficits
Fiscal conservatives need to care about trade deficits, not just budget deficits, when it comes to sound economic policy.
The Credit Card Industry’s False Lifeline
The credit card industry is gouging small business with swipe fees, claiming it’s doing so to help working-class Americans.
The Rise of American “Neopopulism” with David Leonhardt
David Leonhardt joins Oren Cass for a discussion of “neopopulism,” the realignment of American politics, and a bit of the history that got us here.
Why Is Mitch McConnell Still In Charge?
On policy, he is badly misaligned with the GOP and its standard bearer. He is weak on immigration, allied with big business, and expansive in his vision for the nation’s foreign policy commitments.
Oren Cass on CNBC’s Squawk Box
Oren Cass joins CNBC’s Squawk Box for a discussion of conservative economics, politics, and the future of GOP policymaking.
Trump-allied Republicans are changing the GOP’s 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.
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.
Republicans’ 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 “mirrors for princes” tradition has to teach today’s leaders, and aristo-populism.
Oren Cass: “Trump is an inherently time-limited phenomenon”
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 Party’s 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.
