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The American Compass Podcast — 174 episodes

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1

Training the Whole Worker with Dr. Jacob Imam

2

When There’s No One to Call with Sam Pressler

3

What Does 'Tech' Really Mean? with Cory Gardner

4

How to Reclaim American Citizenship with Chris Griswold

5

Economic Security Is National Security with Scott Bessent

6

Magnifica Humanitas with Chris Griswold, Leah Sargeant, and Max Bodach

7

America's Foreign Policy Future with A. Wess Mitchell

8

Why Democrats Can't Learn with Ruy Teixeira

9

The End of the Iran War? with Bradley Devlin

10

A Real Fix for the Affordability Crisis with Chris Griswold

11

The Net Neutrality Panic with Ajit Pai

12

Measuring Machine Intelligence with Chris Painter

13

Neither Girlboss, Nor Tradwife with Emma Waters

14

Fixing Finance with Rohit Chopra

15

Want to End Illegal Immigration? Hire American, with Daniel Kishi

16

Escaping the College-For-All Trap with Dan Currell

17

Tech and Labor, Friends or Foes? with Alex Karp and Sean O'Brien

18

The Future of Trump's Tariffs with Mark DiPlacido

19

What Economists Get Wrong with Luigi Zingales

20

Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists with Oren Cass

21

What Happened to the Starter Home? with Bobby Fijan

22

Solving the Welfare Fraud Crisis with Shad White

23

Dispatches from Davos with Oren Cass

24

How to Solve the Affordability Crisis with Daniel Kishi

25

How to Rebuild American Industry with Mike Schmidt

26

Is Venezuela the Return of Regime Change? with Michael Brendan Dougherty

27

Policing Monopolies with Gail Slater

28

A New Global Trade Order with Mark DiPlacido

29

Reassessing Globalization with Former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo

30

The Tech Revolution in America's Schools with Brad Littlejohn

31

America's Squid Game Economy with John Carney

32

Is AI Really Going to Kill Us All? with Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares

33

Somewheres and Anywheres with David Goodhart

34

Enforcing America's Labor Laws with Seema Nanda

35

Sharpie's American Comeback with Chris Griswold

36

The Geography of Political Belonging with Salena Zito

37

Trump's Media Pushback with Emily Jashinsky and Haisten Willis

38

Labor's Realignment in the AI Age with Sean M. O'Brien

39

Is Abundance Just Neoliberalism? with Matt Yglesias

40

Are the Tariffs Constitutional? with Chad Squitieri and Peter Harrell

41

An American Sovereign Wealth Fund with Julius Krein

42

Still Hooked on Beijing with Geoffrey Cain

43

Rebuilding Strategic Depth with Nadia Schadlow

44

A Tariff Reality Check with Bloomberg’s Anna Wong

45

Fighting for the Working Class with Rep. Riley Moore

46

Fixing Scientific Research Funding with Simon Johnson

47

China Shock 2.0 with Brad Setser

48

What Comes After Post-Liberalism with Patrick Deneen

49

The Critical Minerals Crisis with Robert Bryce

50

Sohrab Ahmari vs. Josh Hammer: Iran, Israel, and the New Right

51

The Poverty of Consumption with Philip Pilkington

52

Putting Workers First with Sen. Bernie Moreno

53

The Architect of a Movement with Sam Tanenhaus

54

Exploring the New World with Vice President JD Vance

55

A New Conservatism with Matthew Continetti

56

'Where Did All the Good Jobs Go?' with Zeynep Ton

57

Apple's Chinafication with Patrick McGee

58

The Future of American Manufacturing with Chris Power

59

Trump’s First 100 Days with Rachel Bovard

60

How the Media Lost Its Way with Mark Halperin

61

The Myths Behind Free Trade with Mark DiPlacido

62

The Global Tariff with Rep. Jared Golden

63

Our Manhood Crisis with Amber Lapp

64

After the Factories Left with David Autor

65

Abundance, Left and Right with Ezra Klein

66

A Unitary Executive with Jack Goldsmith

67

The Transatlantic New Right with Michael Gove

68

What the AI Debate Gets Wrong with Colin Kahl

69

Averting White House Crises with Karl Zinsmeister

70

No Tax Cut Is Free with Oren Cass and Chris Griswold

71

The Sports-Betting Addiction with Jude Russo

72

The Truth About Pro-Life Laws with Leah Sargeant

73

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

74

The Travel Sports Dilemma with Michael Brendan Dougherty

75

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

76

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

77

The New Right's New Home with Helen Andrews

78

The Case for Tariffs with Sen. Phil Gramm

79

Checking Corporate Power with FTC Chair Lina Khan

80

What DOGE Could Do with Santi Ruiz

81

The Collapse of Parenting with Dr. Leonard Sax

82

Trump's Return Agenda with Duncan Braid

83

A Multi-Ethnic Republican Future with Henry Olsen

84

Understanding the Trump Voter with Batya Ungar-Sargon

85

Trump's Victory and the Realignment with Michael Needham

86

A Tech Off-Ramp for Kids with Clare Morell

87

The Adulthood Crisis with Sam Pressler

88

What Parents Want with Ivana Greco

89

The Heartland's Political Realignment with Sarah Smarsh

90

Rethinking China’s Trade Status with Mark DiPlacido

91

Industrial Policy's Potential with Marc Fasteau and Ian Fletcher

92

Private Power and Democracy with Joshua Kleinfeld

93

Conservatism in a Secular Age with Matthew Mehan

94

The U.K. Realignment with Nick Timothy, MP

95

Conservative Urbanism with Aaron Renn

96

Unionizing Minor League Baseball with Harry Marino

97

Where Money Comes From with Richard Werner

98

Revisiting the CHIPS Act with Senator Todd Young

99

Tariffs and Market Power with Michael Lind

100

When Markets Fail with Ruchir Sharma

101

Unpacking the Vance VP Pick with Henry Olsen

102

Making Sense of Electric Vehicles with Oren Cass

103

Reindustrializing America with Dean W. Ball

104

The Realignment of the Working Class with Batya Ungar-Sargon

105

Anti-Competitive Amazon with Dana Mattioli

106

Confronting the Federal Deficit with Reps. Khanna and Arrington

107

Talkin’ (Policy) Shop: Return of the Fiscal Conservatives

108

America's Broken Immigration System with Mark Krikorian

109

The Rise of American "Neopopulism" with David Leonhardt

110

The Wolves of K Street with Brody Mullins

111

Broadening the Defense Industrial Base with Marathon’s Robert Delfeld

112

Educational Pluralism with Ashley Rogers Berner

113

The Future of American Energy with Thomas Hochman

114

Michael Pettis on Dollar Dominance

115

Talkin’ (Policy) Shop: The American Appetite for Government

116

Inside the CHIPS Act Rollout with Micron Technology

117

Constructing Conservatism in the Secular Age

118

Patrick Ruffini on Populism and the Realignment

119

The Media and Conservatism with David Leonhardt, Emily Jashinsky, and Idrees Kahloon

120

Realignment Politics with Jerry Seib, Michael Brendan Dougherty, and Tim Chapman

121

The Future of Conservative Economics with Julius Krein, Michael Strain, and Rana Foroohar

122

John A. Burtka IV on Building a Better Elite

123

Talkin’ (Policy) Shop: Support for Families

124

Talkin’ (Policy) Shop: Globalization

125

Oren Cass & Steve Moore Debate Immigration and Wages

126

Talkin’ (Policy) Shop: Wall Street

127

Talkin’ (Policy) Shop: Industrial Policy

128

Talkin’ (Policy) Shop: Worker Power

129

Talkin’ (Policy) Shop: Middle-Class Security

130

The Future of Capitalism: A Conversation with Glenn Hubbard

131

Talkin’ (Policy) Shop: GOP Voters and the Realignment

132

Critics Corner: Tax Foundation’s Erica York on Tariffs

133

Critics Corner with Avik Roy on “Freedom Conservatism”

134

Sen. J.D. Vance on Financialization, Labor, and Rebuilding American Capitalism

135

Sen. Marco Rubio on Globalization and Rebuilding American Capitalism

136

Sen. Todd Young on Industrial Policy and Rebuilding American Capitalism

137

Sen. Tom Cotton on Education and Rebuilding American Capitalism

138

Talkin’ (Policy) Shop: Back to Basics for Corporate Finance

139

Critics Corner with FreedomWorks’ Phil Bell on the Railway Safety Act

140

Talkin’ (Policy) Shop: End Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China

141

Critics Corner with Angela Rachidi

142

Talkin’ (Policy) Shop: Making Social Media Safe for Kids

143

Senator Marco Rubio on Globalization, Markets, and the Common Good

144

Talkin’ (Policy) Shop: Pre-Competitive R&D Consortia

145

Talkin’ (Policy) Shop: Worker Voice

146

Talkin’ (Policy) Shop: Public Pension Accountability

147

Critics Corner with Steven Kaplan

148

Policy in Brief: Local Content Requirements

149

Policy in Brief: Banning the BA Box

150

Policy in Brief: Pro-Worker Bankruptcy Reform

151

Policy in Brief: A Monthly Family Benefit

152

Policy in Brief: Financing Higher Education

153

Policy in Brief: Worker-Run Benefits

154

Policy in Brief: Balancing U.S. Trade

155

Policy in Brief: Online Age Verification

156

Policy in Brief: The Workforce Training Grant

157

Critics Corner with Michael Strain

158

Critics Corner with Vinnie Vernuccio

159

Critics Corner with Jon Hartley

160

Critics Corner with Grover Norquist

161

Critics Corner with Prof. Donald Boudreaux

162

Lost in the Super Market: All-Knowing Algorithms

163

Lost in the Super Market: Attention Economy

164

Lost in the Super Market: Frictionless Exchange

165

Grand Old Party and the Working Class with Leader McCarthy

166

Fulfillment: A Conversation on Amazon and Regional Inequality with Alec MacGillis

167

Critics Corner with Stephanie Slade

168

Family Financial Security: Sen. Romney on the Right’s Fight to Support Our Most Important Institution

169

Trade After Trump: A Post-Mortem with Former USTR Robert Lighthizer

170

What Next: A Multi-Ethnic, Working-Class Conservatism

171

What Happened: The Trump Presidency in Review

172

Government Of, By, and For the Elite

173

Financialization in America

174

Corporate Actual Responsibility: A Conversation with Senator Josh Hawley