The American Compass Podcast

Jan 31 2025 103 ep. 43 mins 161
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Our mission is to restore an economic consensus that emphasizes the importance of family, community, and industry to the nation’s liberty and prosperity. The American Compass Podcast features conversations on a wide variety of policy issues aimed at helping policymakers and the broader public navigate the most pressing issues that will define the future of the conservative movement in America.

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The Truth About Pro-Life Laws with Leah Sargeant

Jan 31 2025 40 mins  
On this episode, Leah Sargeant, author of Other Feminisms, joins to debunk claims blaming pro-life state laws for the death of expecting mothers in the wake of the Dobbs decision.She and Oren Cass discuss the misleading reporting that ignited these false allegations and diagnose the real problem: the often tragically poor quality of maternal health care. The two unpack why the alle

A Remote-Work 'Baby Boom' with Patrick T. Brown

Jan 24 2025 44 mins  
On this episode, Ethics and Public Policy Center fellow Patrick T. Brown joins guest host and American Compass managing editor Drew Holden to discuss how COVID's remote-work baptism-by-fire led to a surprising boom in babies born during the pandemic.The two talk through the lessons that companies should take away from the experience in order to support working parents as well as wh

The Travel Sports Dilemma with Michael Brendan Dougherty

Jan 17 2025 41 mins  
Why would any sane parent subject themselves to the high costs and grueling hours of travel sports teams for their kids?In this episode, Michael Brendan Dougherty, senior writer at National Review, joins to discuss his feature essay on the subject for our just-launched magazine, Commonplace. As a dance and travel baseball dad himself, he explains that these teams are often the only

What Will Trump’s New Economic Policy Look Like? Part 2

Jan 13 2025 53 mins  
President-elect Trump campaigned on a fresh economic platform prioritizing ordinary Americans, departing considerably from the Old Guard Republican Party that came before him. But how much of that innovative thinking will actually become policy in his second term?Oren Cass appeared at the American Economic Association’s annual meeting on a panel alongside former Council of Econom

What Will Trump's New Economic Policy Look Like? Part 1

Jan 10 2025 57 mins  
President-elect Trump campaigned on a fresh economic platform prioritizing ordinary Americans, departing considerably from the Old Guard Republican Party that came before him. But how much of that innovative thinking will actually become policy in his second term?Oren Cass appeared at the American Economic Association's annual meeting on a panel alongside former Council of Economic

The New Right's New Home with Helen Andrews

Jan 03 2025 43 mins  
Every political movement needs a home for its ideas. Commonplace is the answer for today’s right-of-center.On this episode, Helen Andrews, our new features editor, joins Oren to discuss the forthcoming launch of Commonplace—a new magazine from American Compass, making sense of the political, economic, and cultural concerns that shape America today.Helen unpacks how a conservati

The Case for Tariffs with Sen. Phil Gramm

Dec 20 2024 73 mins  
Has the devotion to unbridled free markets in recent decades benefited or harmed the United States? Earlier this month, Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX) and Oren Cass sat down for a live, wide-ranging discussion of the unintended consequences of America’s approach to manufacturing, and whether free trade is to blame for changes in our domestic industrial base. They explore how conservat

Checking Corporate Power with FTC Chair Lina Khan

Dec 13 2024 44 mins  
On this episode, Oren is joined by FTC Chair Lina Khan for a wide-ranging conversation about competition, antitrust, and why the lack of strong enforcement hurts American consumers, small businesses, and our politics.The two talk through the decline in competition in the U.S. economy and how it has created fragile markets prone to shortages and undermined our economic wellbeing. Th

What DOGE Could Do with Santi Ruiz

Dec 06 2024 40 mins  
On this episode, Institute for Progress senior editor Santi Ruiz joins Oren to talk about government efficiency, state capacity, and what President-elect Trump's focus on revitalizing the way government works could hope to accomplish in the swamp. The two discuss Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and how the effort can avoid the pitfalls of previous blue-ribbon

The Collapse of Parenting with Dr. Leonard Sax

Nov 27 2024 41 mins  
On this episode, physician, psychologist, and best-selling author Dr. Leonard Sax joins Oren to talk about the disastrous state of modern parenting, and how to pull a generation of young people back from the brink.The two walk through the how parents have abandoned teaching their kids about right and wrong, the rise of "gentle parenting" in place of traditional ideas of parental au