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The American Compass Podcast — 181 episodes

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1

What Citizenship Requires with Yuval Levin

2

Trump's Economic Revolution with Stephen Miran

3

Is Kansas Richer than Canada? with Jeff Reimer and Brian Dijkema

4

Is the AI Apocalypse Already Here? with Gregory Conti

5

The Data Centers Battle with Josh Zoffer

6

The Future of Labor Law with Roger King

7

Leading Citizens with Dr. Matt Mehan

8

Training the Whole Worker with Dr. Jacob Imam

9

When There’s No One to Call with Sam Pressler

10

What Does 'Tech' Really Mean? with Cory Gardner

11

How to Reclaim American Citizenship with Chris Griswold

12

Economic Security Is National Security with Scott Bessent

13

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

14

America's Foreign Policy Future with A. Wess Mitchell

15

Why Democrats Can't Learn with Ruy Teixeira

16

The End of the Iran War? with Bradley Devlin

17

A Real Fix for the Affordability Crisis with Chris Griswold

18

The Net Neutrality Panic with Ajit Pai

19

Measuring Machine Intelligence with Chris Painter

20

Neither Girlboss, Nor Tradwife with Emma Waters

21

Fixing Finance with Rohit Chopra

22

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

23

Escaping the College-For-All Trap with Dan Currell

24

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

25

The Future of Trump's Tariffs with Mark DiPlacido

26

What Economists Get Wrong with Luigi Zingales

27

Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists with Oren Cass

28

What Happened to the Starter Home? with Bobby Fijan

29

Solving the Welfare Fraud Crisis with Shad White

30

Dispatches from Davos with Oren Cass

31

How to Solve the Affordability Crisis with Daniel Kishi

32

How to Rebuild American Industry with Mike Schmidt

33

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

34

Policing Monopolies with Gail Slater

35

A New Global Trade Order with Mark DiPlacido

36

Reassessing Globalization with Former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo

37

The Tech Revolution in America's Schools with Brad Littlejohn

38

America's Squid Game Economy with John Carney

39

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

40

Somewheres and Anywheres with David Goodhart

41

Enforcing America's Labor Laws with Seema Nanda

42

Sharpie's American Comeback with Chris Griswold

43

The Geography of Political Belonging with Salena Zito

44

Trump's Media Pushback with Emily Jashinsky and Haisten Willis

45

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

46

Is Abundance Just Neoliberalism? with Matt Yglesias

47

Are the Tariffs Constitutional? with Chad Squitieri and Peter Harrell

48

An American Sovereign Wealth Fund with Julius Krein

49

Still Hooked on Beijing with Geoffrey Cain

50

Rebuilding Strategic Depth with Nadia Schadlow

51

A Tariff Reality Check with Bloomberg’s Anna Wong

52

Fighting for the Working Class with Rep. Riley Moore

53

Fixing Scientific Research Funding with Simon Johnson

54

China Shock 2.0 with Brad Setser

55

What Comes After Post-Liberalism with Patrick Deneen

56

The Critical Minerals Crisis with Robert Bryce

57

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

58

The Poverty of Consumption with Philip Pilkington

59

Putting Workers First with Sen. Bernie Moreno

60

The Architect of a Movement with Sam Tanenhaus

61

Exploring the New World with Vice President JD Vance

62

A New Conservatism with Matthew Continetti

63

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

64

Apple's Chinafication with Patrick McGee

65

The Future of American Manufacturing with Chris Power

66

Trump’s First 100 Days with Rachel Bovard

67

How the Media Lost Its Way with Mark Halperin

68

The Myths Behind Free Trade with Mark DiPlacido

69

The Global Tariff with Rep. Jared Golden

70

Our Manhood Crisis with Amber Lapp

71

After the Factories Left with David Autor

72

Abundance, Left and Right with Ezra Klein

73

A Unitary Executive with Jack Goldsmith

74

The Transatlantic New Right with Michael Gove

75

What the AI Debate Gets Wrong with Colin Kahl

76

Averting White House Crises with Karl Zinsmeister

77

No Tax Cut Is Free with Oren Cass and Chris Griswold

78

The Sports-Betting Addiction with Jude Russo

79

The Truth About Pro-Life Laws with Leah Sargeant

80

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

81

The Travel Sports Dilemma with Michael Brendan Dougherty

82

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

83

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

84

The New Right's New Home with Helen Andrews

85

The Case for Tariffs with Sen. Phil Gramm

86

Checking Corporate Power with FTC Chair Lina Khan

87

What DOGE Could Do with Santi Ruiz

88

The Collapse of Parenting with Dr. Leonard Sax

89

Trump's Return Agenda with Duncan Braid

90

A Multi-Ethnic Republican Future with Henry Olsen

91

Understanding the Trump Voter with Batya Ungar-Sargon

92

Trump's Victory and the Realignment with Michael Needham

93

A Tech Off-Ramp for Kids with Clare Morell

94

The Adulthood Crisis with Sam Pressler

95

What Parents Want with Ivana Greco

96

The Heartland's Political Realignment with Sarah Smarsh

97

Rethinking China’s Trade Status with Mark DiPlacido

98

Industrial Policy's Potential with Marc Fasteau and Ian Fletcher

99

Private Power and Democracy with Joshua Kleinfeld

100

Conservatism in a Secular Age with Matthew Mehan

101

The U.K. Realignment with Nick Timothy, MP

102

Conservative Urbanism with Aaron Renn

103

Unionizing Minor League Baseball with Harry Marino

104

Where Money Comes From with Richard Werner

105

Revisiting the CHIPS Act with Senator Todd Young

106

Tariffs and Market Power with Michael Lind

107

When Markets Fail with Ruchir Sharma

108

Unpacking the Vance VP Pick with Henry Olsen

109

Making Sense of Electric Vehicles with Oren Cass

110

Reindustrializing America with Dean W. Ball

111

The Realignment of the Working Class with Batya Ungar-Sargon

112

Anti-Competitive Amazon with Dana Mattioli

113

Confronting the Federal Deficit with Reps. Khanna and Arrington

114

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

115

America's Broken Immigration System with Mark Krikorian

116

The Rise of American "Neopopulism" with David Leonhardt

117

The Wolves of K Street with Brody Mullins

118

Broadening the Defense Industrial Base with Marathon’s Robert Delfeld

119

Educational Pluralism with Ashley Rogers Berner

120

The Future of American Energy with Thomas Hochman

121

Michael Pettis on Dollar Dominance

122

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

123

Inside the CHIPS Act Rollout with Micron Technology

124

Constructing Conservatism in the Secular Age

125

Patrick Ruffini on Populism and the Realignment

126

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

127

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

128

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

129

John A. Burtka IV on Building a Better Elite

130

Talkin’ (Policy) Shop: Support for Families

131

Talkin’ (Policy) Shop: Globalization

132

Oren Cass & Steve Moore Debate Immigration and Wages

133

Talkin’ (Policy) Shop: Wall Street

134

Talkin’ (Policy) Shop: Industrial Policy

135

Talkin’ (Policy) Shop: Worker Power

136

Talkin’ (Policy) Shop: Middle-Class Security

137

The Future of Capitalism: A Conversation with Glenn Hubbard

138

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

139

Critics Corner: Tax Foundation’s Erica York on Tariffs

140

Critics Corner with Avik Roy on “Freedom Conservatism”

141

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

142

Sen. Marco Rubio on Globalization and Rebuilding American Capitalism

143

Sen. Todd Young on Industrial Policy and Rebuilding American Capitalism

144

Sen. Tom Cotton on Education and Rebuilding American Capitalism

145

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

146

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

147

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

148

Critics Corner with Angela Rachidi

149

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

150

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

151

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

152

Talkin’ (Policy) Shop: Worker Voice

153

Talkin’ (Policy) Shop: Public Pension Accountability

154

Critics Corner with Steven Kaplan

155

Policy in Brief: Local Content Requirements

156

Policy in Brief: Banning the BA Box

157

Policy in Brief: Pro-Worker Bankruptcy Reform

158

Policy in Brief: A Monthly Family Benefit

159

Policy in Brief: Financing Higher Education

160

Policy in Brief: Worker-Run Benefits

161

Policy in Brief: Balancing U.S. Trade

162

Policy in Brief: Online Age Verification

163

Policy in Brief: The Workforce Training Grant

164

Critics Corner with Michael Strain

165

Critics Corner with Vinnie Vernuccio

166

Critics Corner with Jon Hartley

167

Critics Corner with Grover Norquist

168

Critics Corner with Prof. Donald Boudreaux

169

Lost in the Super Market: All-Knowing Algorithms

170

Lost in the Super Market: Attention Economy

171

Lost in the Super Market: Frictionless Exchange

172

Grand Old Party and the Working Class with Leader McCarthy

173

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

174

Critics Corner with Stephanie Slade

175

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

176

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

177

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

178

What Happened: The Trump Presidency in Review

179

Government Of, By, and For the Elite

180

Financialization in America

181

Corporate Actual Responsibility: A Conversation with Senator Josh Hawley