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Commonplace

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Commonplace

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A magazine about what matters in America, from @AmerCompass. commonplace.org

Washington, DC

Joined February 2024

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"Let me be blunt. Left to itself, artificial intelligence will not choose moral liberty. It will choose the passions. It will choose appetite. It will gather power into the fewest hands the world has ever seen and call the result progress. That is the rule of the strong over the
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Sen. Josh Hawley: Reclaiming Citizenship from the Cloud
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Oren Cass
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Jun 10
From @AmerCompass gala, @HawleyMO @commonplc on Reclaiming Citizenship from the Cloud: "Behind every one of these fronts—labor, data centers, children—there is a deeper question. Who decides? Who will set the terms of the artificial intelligence era?" commonplace.org/p/sen-josh-haw…
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"For hardworking Americans, the game is rigged. You can vote to secure union representation, you can reach the bargaining table, and you can press your boss for higher wages, guaranteed benefits, and a secure retirement. But in today’s America, employers are afforded every
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Oren Cass
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Jun 8
1/ Most people struggle even to find the language to explain what ails America, though we can sense the country we thought we knew, and the future we want for ourselves and our children, slipping away. After a year of research, deliberation, and drafting, @AmerCompass...
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The Republic Strikes Back
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Jun 8
"From time to time, throughout American history, the question of whether the United States should remain a republic or evolve into an empire reenters political discourse. It is upon us again, though perhaps not in the way many expected when President Trump returned to office.
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Oren Cass
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Jun 8
"Agreeing on republican virtues is much easier than renouncing imperial ambitions." Read Katherine Thompson @commonplc on the danger of Trump admin's continued foreign adventurism in the face of its doctrinal turn back toward a more restrained republic.
The Republic Strikes Back
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Jun 5
"Wall Street came and kind of ate everything, just the financialization of the world." - @SecScottBessent In our conversation at the @AmerCompass New World Gala on Tuesday, Secretary Bessent discussed how to ensure Main Street prospers too.
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Jun 3
Fantastic messages from @HawleyMO and @SecScottBessent tonight at the @AmerCompass Gala. This is the future of the right.
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Oren Cass
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Jun 4
At @AmerCompass's New World Gala on Tuesday, I asked @SecScottBessent what we can do about young people no longer believing the system works for them. He said we need to move away from "the gambling society" and the desire "to economically play the lottery."
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Jun 5
"We cut off China," Treasury @SecScottBessent told me, highlighting how @FCC action is helping to reshore technologies critical to our economic and national security. From the @AmerCompass New World Gala on Tuesday night:
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Henry Gao
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Jun 3
Surprised by USTR’s sweeping Section 301 decision on forced labor today? You shouldn’t be. I’ve been saying this was coming since last year in my @commonplc essay: commonplace.org/p/the-art-of-a…
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