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Every political movement needs a home for the development and advancement of its ideas and coalition. Commonplace is that home for the New Right, building and sustaining a durable conservative majority that emphasizes the importance of family, community, and industry to the nation’s liberty and prosperity. Through conversations and commentary, reporting and analysis, Commonplace focuses on what matters in America.
“As its name suggests,” Oren Cass explained when we launched, “our magazine’s purpose is twofold: First, to be a common place where not only the American right-of-center’s diverse factions, but also thoughtful interlocutors from across the political spectrum can gather to debate the future of both conservatism and the nation. Second, to focus those conversations on the commonplace—the economic, political, and cultural concerns that shape the experiences of ordinary Americans and, as a result, the trajectory of the American experiment.” Source
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Search ArticlesGail Slater: Antitrust in the Time(s) of Tariffs
In 1890, two landmark bills passed and were signed into law by Republican president Benjamin Harrison. That year, both the Sherman Antitrust Act and the McKinley Tariff simultaneously defined American antitrust law and established a historic tariff to protect American producers. This was no coincidence.
The Real Economy: Manufacturing Jobs
Today’s jobs report was a strong one, and encouraging in its broad-based gains. Manufacturing is now up by more than 50,000 jobs since February. Combine that with the increase in job openings and total manufacturing labor demand over the period is up by more than 200,000 jobs. Not bad. The Federal Reserve’s latest Beige Book reports: “Healthy labor demand was seen most frequently in manufacturing, construction, and some service sectors...
What Citizenship Requires with Yuval Levin
The youngest generation of Americans are increasingly without the kind of formation that shapes children into adults and allows them to develop the muscles of good citizenry, as the institutions and systems that once helped their elders fall short today. This not only sets young people up for failure, but erodes social cohesion and a democratic politics. Yuval Levin joins Oren and Chris to try to define what a better path of formation and true citizenship could look like.
Perverse Incentives Handed Higher Ed to AI
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, and students—should strive in harmony toward Truth, our universities abandoned that pursuit long ago and reoriented themselves toward a new end: the appearance of learning. American colleges depend on tuition, and administrators must keep the money flowing in.
Why Shouldn’t the President Sell His Tweets?
The tweed-wearing professor saunters smugly across the front of the lecture hall, hands clasped behind his back. “Here’s a thought experiment,” he intones. “Suppose the President of the United States offers to provide early access to his public statements for a fee. Hedge funds form a line down Wall Street to sign up. Is there anything wrong with this?” Of course, it’s not a thought experiment at all. President Trump’s media company is doing precisely this.
A Crack in Big Tech’s Armor
On Wednesday night, I was picking up my daughter from volleyball practice when something about the line of middle-school girls waiting in the hallway caught my attention. It wasn’t just that they all had smartphones—that was to be expected outside of our little homeschooler bubble. And it wasn’t that half of them, at any given time, were looking at their screens rather than talking to one another—if anything, that’s a pretty healthy ratio these days.
The Real Economy: Mountie Meltdown
Welcome to Commonplace’s new newsletter, The Real Economy. It has been more than two years since we first launched Understanding America, and in the more than 100 editions since, its purpose and content drifted into a hybrid between broader social and political commentary on one hand and in-depth coverage of the week’s economic developments on the other. It also kept getting longer and longer… eventually, too long. So now we have a split.
Trump's Economic Revolution with Stephen Miran
Why have so many economists gotten it so wrong about the impact of Trump's economic policies, from trade to immigration and beyond? Stephen Miran, former chair of Trump's Council of Economic Advisors, joins Oren on the podcast to unpack the president's economic realignment. The two discuss the change in thinking Trump has delivered and why economists can neither understand its value nor accurately predict what its implications will look like.
‘Common Good’ Capitalism Preserves Freedom
The “common good” war has erupted again. Americans are increasingly isolated and distrustful, while revolutionary socialism has gained a new political foothold, shining a new light on debates about communal solidarity and individual autonomy. There’s certainly a tension between a politics prioritizing freedom and one that stresses a sense of communal solidarity.
Anti-Anti-Family Policy Is Not Pro-Family
“Don’t be weird about this,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) says, an injection needle poised over her belly as part of an attempt to freeze her eggs. “Even though I know all of you will be.” Sure enough, both sides of the political spectrum lived down to her expectations, and in a way that was doubly damaging for the pro-family cause.