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The New Conservatives
Restoring America's Commitment to Family, Community, and Industry
By Oren Cass and American Compass
Published by Radius Book Group
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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About The Book
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.
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.
Product Details
- Publisher: Radius Book Group (July 16, 2025)
- Length: 320 pages
- ISBN13: 9798895150504
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Raves and Reviews
“A policy nerve center for the party’s younger, more populist generation.”
—Ezra Klein, New York Times
“[The] coterie of younger Republicans, in Congress and think tanks, who advocate policies that would mark a sharp break from the conservative, free-market gospel that has been the backbone of the GOP for more than half a century. . . . [American Compass] is in the forefront of rethinking traditional conservative economic ideas.”
—Gerald Seib, Wall Street Journal
“A slaughterhouse for Republican sacred cows.”
—The Economist
“Ground zero in a fierce conservative clash over Trump-era economics.”
—Politico
“The most intellectually honest tendency within the anti-Establishment right.”
—New York Magazine
“Oren Cass won the day, it’s Oren Cass’s party now.”
—Bari Weiss, The Free Press
“Compass is doing as much or more to shape the national conversation and our economic policy than Washington’s largest think tanks. . . . I look to American Compass for advice and ideas, and the number of my colleagues who do also is staggering.”
—U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio
“[American Compass’] thoughtful and innovative vision of conservative economics will shape discussions on the right for years to come.”
—Senator Tom Cotton
“American Compass . . . provides a blueprint for the future of conservatism. By rousing our movement to rise to this moment and giving it the intellectual material to do so, you’re setting the stage for a second American century.”
—Senator Todd Young
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