Can Free Trade Work for Everyone?
Pete Coy discusses the debate over free trade, highlighting Oren Cass’s rebuttal of Glenn Hubbard’s recent book.
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Founder’s Letter: The Return of Political Economy
Political economy has no inviolable truths. Anything that economists or political scientists claim as inviolable truth, then, is incomplete—it may hold within the narrow confines of their analysis, but it will not hold in reality over the long run.
2021 Annual Report
This year, as the right-of-center contemplates its path forward, American Compass has emerged as the leader in scrutinizing the outdated orthodoxy and developing genuinely conservative economic thinking.
Marco Rubio Gets It. Our Economic Addiction to China Is a National Security Threat.
Henry Olsen discusses Sen. Rubio’s remarks at American Compass’s inaugural Henry Clay Lecture in Political Economy.
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.
Have I Got a Bridge to Sell You: The Limitations of Econ 101
American Compass executive director Oren Cass reviews Glenn Hubbard’s new book, The Wall and the Bridge, and discusses the limits of market fundamentalism.
The Fed Soc Debate Turns Inward
American Compass coalitions director Wesley Hodges discusses the developing debate within the Federalist Society about the roles and potential threats of corporate and government power.
Marginal Prophets
Magical thinking is evident in Homo oeconomicus’s serial recital of the “benefits of trade”; his blithe attitude toward financialization and the rise of cheap digital consumer technology; his utter indifference to the economic pressures bearing down upon the working family…
The Government Should Keep Its Hands Off Your Medicare
The path to a more secure and generous American welfare state lies not in rejecting the work ethic and the distinction it makes between contributory social insurance and non-contributory social assistance, but rather in embracing it.
Munk Debate: Universal Basic Income
Oren Cass debates Scott Santens on proposals for a universal basic income.
Announcing the Common Good Economics Grant Program
The Common Good Economics grant program will support projects rethinking the role that economic policy can play in advancing the common good.
Oren Cass Joins Politico Playbook Deep Dive Podcast
American Compass’s Oren Cass, “an influential voice in this new economic counterculture,” joins to discuss the conservative debate on economics and the free market.
The Emergence of Anti-Corporate Progressivism
Opposition to globalization. Efforts to weaken intellectual property protections. Pushing for municipal broadband. Calls for the National Institutes of Health to develop drugs. What do these positions have in common? They are all examples of the recent turn toward anti-corporate progressivism.
Critics Corner with Jon Hartley
On this episode of Critics Corner, Oren is joined by Jon Hartley, a visiting fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity and a former senior policy advisor to the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee.
Oren Cass Joins Moment of Truth Podcast
American Compass executive director Oren Cass joins American Moment’s podcast to discuss economics, working class families, and conservatism.
How a Fight Over Economics Could Shape the GOP’s Post-Trump Future
Eliana Johnson explores the right-of-center’s defining fight for the years to come and highlights American Compass as the organization leading the charge to reinvigorate a true conservative economics.
Are You Better Off Than You Were Forty Years Ago?
American Compass executive director Oren Cass discusses economic shifts over the past 40 years and why economists and policymakers need to embrace a more holistic view of what it means to be “better off.”
Critics Corner with Grover Norquist
On this episode of Critics Corner, Oren is joined by Grover Norquist, founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform. Spoiler: Oren is not convinced to sign the tax pledge.
Can Catholic Social Teaching Redeem a Post-Trump, Pro-Labor Republican Party?
Rachel Lu highlights American Compass’s Oren Cass and our Guide to Economic Inequality in a discussion of the role of Catholic social teaching in pro-labor conservatism.
Growing Pains
American Compass research director Wells King reviews two books on the de-growth movement.
