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Artificial intelligence did not wreck our colleges and universities. Leadership in higher education did. AI simply revealed the perverse incentives underpinning America’s system. Where the three actors of academia—administrators, faculty, a...
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Stephen Miran, former chair of Trump's Council of Economic Advisors, joins Oren on the podcast to unpac...
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A magazine about what matters in America.
Ryan Girdusky is an author, podcast host, political consultant, and journalist.
I'm the author of The Dignity of Dependence, as a well as Arriving at Amen and Building the Benedict Option. My substack, Other Feminisms, is about how to advocate for women as women in a world that treats us like defective men.
Writer from New England. Writing a book on liberty, community, and the good. At National Review, City Journal, The Atlantic, UnHerd, Washington Post, etc. @fredbauerblog
Oliver Traldi is a philosopher and writer.
Henry Olsen is a writer whose work focuses on politics and populism in America and around the world.
John Sailer is a senior fellow and director of higher education policy at the Manhattan Institute.
Oren Cass is the chief economist at American Compass and a contributing editor for the Financial Times.
Program Director and Policy Advisor, American Compass
Jeff Reimer is an editor for Comment magazine. See more of his work at jreimr.com.
Bruno V. Manno is senior advisor at the Progressive Policy Institute [https://www.progressivepolicy.org/people/bruno-manno/] and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education. Follow him at LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruno-manno-1367a49b/]
Chris Griswold is the policy director at American Compass.
President, Canada, Cardus.
Yuval Levin is director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute and the author, most recently, of "American Covenant"
Not a poet, just a woman.
Dalton is an AI Policy Fellow at the Horizon Institute for Public Service. He was a 2026 American Compass Summer Fellow.
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