Oren Cass

Oren Cass emerged as a leading public intellectual with the 2018 publication The Once and Future Worker, a groundbreaking reassessment of economic policy lauded across the political spectrum and around the world: “among the most important I’ve ever read” (J.D. Vance),“the essential policy book for our time” (Yuval Levin), “thoughtful, provocative, carefully argued” (Jason Furman). Cass writes monthly columns for both The New York Times and The Financial Times as well as a twice-weekly Substack with close to 10,000 subscribers, and hosts the weekly American Compass Podcast. He has also published essays within the past two years in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, First Things, Public Discourse, Law & Liberty, and Compact. Prior to founding American Compass, Cass worked as a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He earned his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was elected vice president and treasurer of the Harvard Law Review and oversaw the journal’s budget and operations. While still in law school, he also became Domestic Policy Director for Governor Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, editing and producing the campaign’s “jobs book” and developing its domestic policy strategy, proposals, and research.