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A magazine about what matters in America, from @AmerCompass.
Washington, DC
Joined February 2024
"Conservatives must reaffirm that concentrated economic power is just as dangerous as concentrated political power, and that rightly ordered political power is a necessary and appropriate tool for restraining excessive economic power and preserving liberty. This approach requires
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RT @oren_cass: What's going on with the MP Materials - Pentagon deal? Get up to speed with last week's @AmerCompass podcast:.
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How can America break its reliance on China for the rare earth minerals that make modern life possible?. @pwrhungry joined @oren_cass on The @AmerCompass Podcast to discuss.
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Market concentration has undermined mom-and-pop shops across the country, impacting communities and American workers. But a surprising industry has provided a roadmap for how small business can better compete: pizza shops.
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RT @SkylerAdleta: An extraordinarily relatable reflection on the modern American experience of child-rearing. It’s easy to be distracted fr….
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"I lived in Park Slope from 2008 to 2020, most of that time in a fourth-story walk-up apartment with my wife and our two daughters. We had about 1,200 square feet. I know the neighborhood, and I know the people Mamdani represents. These are not revolutionaries and they are not
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"A conservative movement serious about the common good ought to see this as a call to action. These voters are not lost to the Left by necessity. What Mamdani’s win reveals is not that New York’s professionals have embraced socialism, but that they’ve given up on the institutions
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The U.S. is entirely dependent on China for 95% of rare earth elements, 100% reliant on imports for 15 critical minerals, and >80% reliant for 11 more. These make modern life possible. How do we snap out of it? @pwrhungry joins @oren_cass on the @AmerCompass Podcast to discuss.
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"The neighborhoods where Mamdani won aren’t the working-class strongholds of the twentieth century. They’re something newer, stranger: enclaves of educated precarity. These are not blue-collar districts where people punch clocks and belong to unions. They’re zones of
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RT @LeahLibresco: My daughter’s eyes followed them the whole way, with all the attention of Mr. Toad beholding his first motorcar. “I need….
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RT @carney: My argument here is that the "privileged elites" who voted for Zohran in the Democratic primary shouldn't be viewed through the….
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RT @DrewHolden360: What should conservatives really learn from Zohran’s NYC primary win? @carney explains for @commonplc. .
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RT @DanielMKishi: Great article from @carney in @commonplc on Zohran, the precarity of the professional class, and what it portends for our….
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RT @DrewHolden360: Conservatives shouldn’t write off the success of Zohran Mamdani as the triumph of unwashed Bedstuy socialists. What mo….
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"The Park Slope-Bushwick Mamdani supporters are not, in any meaningful sense, working-class. But they are not exactly elite either. They belong to a group that has become increasingly central to American politics: the downwardly mobile professionals, the overproduced graduates of.
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It’s Zohran’s New York now. The self-described democratic socialist won some of the city’s most gentrified neighborhoods, but as @Carney writes, conservatives should look closer before writing off their support as “champagne socialism.”
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RT @WaywardRabbler: I was aware that Detroit's fortunes were somewhat improving but not aware so much progress had been made. This is indee….
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"Detroit is on the way up. To understand the significance of that, you must know that for decades, Detroit was a byword for American urban decline. It was the major American city that people pointed to as the exemplar of intractable urban problems. A local in nearby Cleveland
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