Videos
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Jon Stewart Dives into MAGA's Contradictory Politics with Zachary Carter & Oren Cass
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Oren Cass | Fanfare for the Common Man | NatCon 4
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Oren Cass on Donald Trump's tariff proposals
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OREN CASS: The Future of the American Worker
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Immigration & Wages | Oren Cass & Steve Moore
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How Markets Fail the Family And What to Do About It – Oren Cass at the PE 2022 Conference
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Oren Cass: The philosophy of J.D. Vance
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New Ways to Measure Our Economy
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Is Capitalism Working? A Conversation with Oren Cass
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Mr. Oren Cass Testimony Before the Joint Economic Committee, November 20, 2019
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Making The Case For Trump’s Tariffs | Amanpour and Company
Learn More About Oren Cass
Oren Cass is the chief economist at American Compass, the conservative think tank he founded in 2020 to restore an economic consensus emphasizing the importance of family, community and industry to the nation’s liberty and prosperity. Oren Cass is “the key figure in pushing Republicans toward a conservative vision of worker power” (New York Times) and a “primary influence on [Senator J.D. Vance]’s economic thinking” (Politico). David Brooks has declared him the GOP’s “center of gravity” (PBS NewsHour), while Bari Weiss remarked recently, “Oren Cass won the day, it’s Oren Cass’s party now” (The Free Press).
“If Oren Cass and his group of thinkers get their way,” observed Unherd’s Freddie Sayers in the UK, “what we’ve just heard could be the future of American Politics.” In France, meanwhile, Le Figaro has called him the “one man [who] stands out as the mastermind behind this reorientation,” noting that “the new Republican guard, which includes J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio, swears by Cass’s ideas.”
From 2015 to 2019, Cass was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, where he published his landmark book, “The Once and Future Worker” (2018) which has become required reading for young conservatives and is taught at universities across the country. Vice President J.D. Vance called it “a brilliant book, and among the most important I’ve ever read.”
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. 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.
He lives in the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts with his wife and three children.
Oren Cass is available to advise your organization via virtual and in-person consulting meetings, interactive workshops and customized keynotes through the exclusive representation of Stern Speakers & Advisors, a division of Stern Strategy Group®.
Oren Cass offers keynote presentations, interactive virtual experiences, workshops and panel discussions on a number of topics, including but not limited to the following:
- A New Era for the American Political Economy
- The Great Work Debate: Will AI Help or Harm Worker Prosperity?
- The Right and the Future of Capitalism
- What Ails the Working Class in America?
- The Immigration and Wages Debate
- Is Capitalism Working?
Contact us to learn more about these topics or other topics Oren Cass can customize to your organization’s needs.
Praise for "The Once and Future Worker"
“Oren Cass has accomplished the rare feat of not only saying something truly new and innovative about our society, but also doing it in a readable, engrossing way. 'The Once and Future Worker' is a wake-up call to our political class, and indeed the whole country, that rising consumption can’t replace that most basic of goods ― a job. A brilliant book. And among the most important I’ve ever read.”
“No one has better articulated the conservative argument for why work matters to America's long-term prosperity than Oren Cass. Oren’s insightful prescription for what ails us should be required reading for those who endeavor to create a labor market in which workers can create and support strong families and communities.”
“Oren Cass has written the essential policy book for our time. His diagnosis cuts to the heart of what’s troubling our political economy, and his prescriptions chart the way toward a more constructive politics. A must-read.”
“Through an unflinching indictment of the mistakes that Washington has made for a generation and continues to make today, Oren Cass forcefully draws out the contradictions of a consensus that has actively displaced Americans from their national inheritance of good jobs and thriving hometowns. 'The Once and Future Worker' offers much-needed clarity for how to make the American Dream possible for the many.”
“Oren Cass’s focus on the importance of work ― and making work pay ― offers welcome common ground for policy debates across partisan and ideological lines. His core principle ― a culture of respect for work of all kinds ― can help close the gap dividing the two Americas that the 2016 election so starkly revealed.”
“Working-class voters tried to send a message in 2016, and they are still trying to send it. The crucial question is whether America’s leaders will listen and respond. One way to start doing that is to read Oren Cass’s absolutely brilliant new book.”
“Oren Cass has one of the sharpest policy minds in this new vanguard. . . . Cass’s book, timed for publication the week after the midterms, could either be the battle orders for a second Trump term or a to-do list for a successor stamped in the same mold.”
“Oren Cass talks about a lot of these policy solutions that nobody wants to talk about. . . . Go check it out right now. It’s a sophisticated take on a lot of deep policy issues.”
