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Making Sense of Conservative Economics
1/8/2025 • Drew Holden
It Can’t Just Be DOGE
Trump’s anti-bureaucracy energy should be directed at regulation as well as waste
12/19/2024 • Aaron M. Renn
Another Window Into America’s Two-Tiered System of Justice
It isn’t just about criminal punishments and presidential pardons
12/17/2024 • Patrick T. Brown
Tax Cuts for the Coalition We Have
The old GOP dictated Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. His new coalition should shape its future.
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What Will Trump’s New Economic Policy Look Like? Part 2
Oren speaks on a panel about economic policy in Trump’s second term and more with Jason Furman, Richard Burkhauser, and Kimberly Clausing.
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3/12/2026 • Oren Cass
2025 Founder’s Letter
Political economy has no inviolable truths. Anything that economists or political scientists claim as inviolable truth, then, is incomplete—it may hold within the narrow confines of their analysis, but it will not hold in reality over the long run.
2/7/2026
Tariffs vs. Free Trade: Oren Cass Debates Larry Summers at Harvard Business School
In November, Harvard Business School hosted a debate between Oren Cass and Katherine Tai on one side, and Larry Summers and Robert Lawrence on the other, over the question: Should Read more…
2/6/2026 • Oren Cass
The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Let’s Start Treating It That Way.
It’s bonus season on Wall Street, and a record-setting 2025 is yielding bigger paychecks than ever for America’s investment bankers, thanks to their hard work doing, well, what exactly?
1/31/2026 • Oren Cass
‘I Have Been Dismayed About Warsh’s Tone’: Three Economists Debate Trump’s Pick for the Fed
Matthew Rose, an Opinion editorial director, hosted an online conversation with three contributing Opinion writers (Oren Cass, Natasha Sarin, and Jason Forman) about the Federal Reserve. Matthew Rose: After months of Read more…
10/17/2025 • Brad Littlejohn
A Helper Corresponding to Him
“It is not good for man to be alone.” These words from Genesis 2 have acquired a new urgency and relevance in recent years, as the Western world grapples with Read more…
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