The New Conservatives: Restoring America's Commitment to Family, Community, and Industry

For the fifth anniversary of American Compass, the conservative think tank hailed by the Wall Street Journal as "the forefront of rethinking traditional conservative economic ideas," comes a collection of its best, most influential writing.

American Compass is the nerve center of the New American Right, the strategists and policy experts charting a new course for the Republican Party through the economic issues shaping today’s political landscape—trade and immigration, technology and finance, industrial policy, education, welfare, labor, family, and more. The New Conservatives is the organization’s urtext, a collection of its most influential writing on what has gone wrong in America and the role for government in ensuring that markets serve workers and the nation—not the other way around. These are the ideas that have made the organization at once “a slaughterhouse for Republican sacred cows” (The Economist) and the party’s “center of gravity” (David Brooks, PBS News Hour).

With essays and manifestos by American Compass founder Oren Cass, New America cofounder Michael Lind, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, former US trade representative Robert Lighthizer, National Affairs founding editor Yuval Levin, American Affairs founding editor Julius Krein, and former American Conservative senior editor Helen Andrews, among others, The New Conservatives revitalizes the American conservative tradition, breaking from the GOP’s free-market fundamentalism to promote the productive markets, supportive communities, and responsive politics that are the foundations of the nation’s liberty and prosperity.

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.