Lessons in the Dismal Science | The Roundtable Ep. 5 Segment 3
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Oren Cass founds American Compass, a pro-prosperity think tank and the latest in the Right’s ongoing debate over free market economics.
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| 0:00.0 | Now you never see me cry. |
| 0:05.0 | There's just no time to die. |
| 0:11.0 | All right, well, we thought we wanted to give a positive word. We've been, you know, |
| 0:16.5 | running down some of our friends, fellow travelers and frenemies in the broader conservative movement, this |
| 0:24.9 | maybe being too charitable with folks at the bull work, etc. |
| 0:27.6 | But we want to bring up something positive and praise someone who's building and wants |
| 0:31.9 | to start something new and start some new conversations. |
| 0:34.4 | So the media rollout for our friend. |
| 0:38.1 | I don't know, Warren personally, but I've seen him speak. |
| 0:40.3 | He's a very nice man, very smart. |
| 0:42.3 | I worked at Manhattan Institute for many years and now has branched out on his own. |
| 0:47.0 | Orrin Cass has started this new, what would you call it, I guess in economics and economic policy think tank economics with people included? |
| 0:58.0 | Its name is the American compass and our friend, we do know Wells pretty well, |
| 1:03.5 | our friend Wells King, who did Claremont Institute |
| 1:06.3 | Poubeas Fellowship a couple summers back |
| 1:08.0 | as their research director. |
| 1:09.3 | So Orrin has this book out the once and future worker where he talks about a new national economic policy that places at its core the |
| 1:21.2 | the booing up and the the protection of the the backbone of American Republicanism, small R Republicanism. |
| 1:35.0 | So we're very interested in this project and I just wanted to raise it. |
| 1:39.0 | I just opened the floor for anyone. |
| 1:42.0 | But all of you out there should keep an eye on American compass and all the work that Orrin Kass is doing and we hope to collaborate with them in some fashion down the road. |
| 1:49.6 | I can see that Matt is getting ready to unleash very ripe doctrines on us. |
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