OREN CASS is the founder and chief economist at American Compass and author of The Once and Future Worker (2018), a groundbreaking reassessment of economic policy. Cass writes monthly columns for both The New York Times and the Financial Times, and his essays have appeared recently in publications ranging from The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and Foreign Affairs to First Things, Law & Liberty, and Compact. AMERICAN COMPASS is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore an economic consensus that emphasizes the importance of family, community, and industry to the nation’s liberty and prosperity. Founded in 2020 by Oren Cass, the organization challenges conventional wisdom and champions innovative solutions that prioritize American workers, their families and communities, and the national interest. Its work addresses critical issues such as economic growth and job creation, trade and industrial policy, worker power and family stability, and the role of government in promoting the common good.
“A policy nerve center for the party’s younger, more populist generation.” —Ezra Klein, New York Times “[The] coterie of younger Republicans, in Congress and think tanks, who advocate policies that would mark a sharp break from the conservative, free-market gospel that has been the backbone of the GOP for more than half a century. . . . [American Compass] is in the forefront of rethinking traditional conservative economic ideas.” —Gerald Seib, Wall Street Journal “A slaughterhouse for Republican sacred cows.” —The Economist “Ground zero in a fierce conservative clash over Trump-era economics.” —Politico “The most intellectually honest tendency within the anti-Establishment right.” —New York Magazine “Oren Cass won the day, it’s Oren Cass’s party now.” —Bari Weiss, The Free Press “Compass is doing as much or more to shape the national conversation and our economic policy than Washington’s largest think tanks. . . . I look to American Compass for advice and ideas, and the number of my colleagues who do also is staggering.” —U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio “[American Compass’] thoughtful and innovative vision of conservative economics will shape discussions on the right for years to come.” —Senator Tom Cotton “American Compass . . . provides a blueprint for the future of conservatism. By rousing our movement to rise to this moment and giving it the intellectual material to do so, you’re setting the stage for a second American century.” —Senator Todd Young