Between the Common School and the Market
Johns Hopkins’s Ashley Berner discusses the benefits and tradeoffs of a pluralistic approach to education in America.
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What Are Public Schools For?
According to a new American Compass survey, parents have a different answer than activists and policymakers do, writes Oren Cass.
Survey Finds U.S. Public Education Ignores Priorities of Parents and Students
PRESS RELEASE—Education reformers have lost sight of what most Americans say public education is for, according to a new American Compass survey.
Failing on Purpose Survey
The American Compass Failing on Purpose Survey explores the perspectives and experiences of those in closest contact with the American education system—namely parents, current students, and recent graduates.
20 Years of “Free Trade” with China
We have adapted Senator Rubio’s speech as an essay, which we are pleased to present as this week’s Compass Point: Trading It All Away.
Trading It All Away
Adapted from remarks delivered by Senator Marco Rubio on the 20th anniversary of China’s ascension to the WTO.
The Citizenship Test
Public education must instill civic virtues and shared allegiances.
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.
Senator Marco Rubio Delivers the Inaugural Henry Clay Lecture in Political Economy
Sen. Rubio assesses how the flawed bipartisan economic consensus went so tragically wrong and offers a clear-eyed approach to economic policy that can serve the national interest and the common good.
Laboratories for Democracy
Public education must advance national power.
Making Meritocrats Moral
Public education must form a virtuous elite.
Failing on Purpose
How We Forgot What Public Education Is For
Conservative Scholars Rethink Public Education’s Purpose
PRESS RELEASE—Essay series explores how public education is failing in both practice and principle
Foreword: Teach for America
Public education’s primary purpose is preservation of our democratic republic.
The School of Self-Rule
Public education must empower the common citizen.
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.
Why National Conservatism Needs Worker Power
At the second National Conservatism conference, Oren Cass discusses the importance of worker power to the future of conservatism.
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.
Why China Matters to You
Twenty years into the foolish experiment of Chinese ascension to the World Trade Organization, America now has a strategic peer whose values and goals in conflict with our own. We have committed to an international system on the assumption that we would set its course, and face a hoisting by our own petard if adversaries gain leverage within its institutions.
