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Commonplace

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Commonplace

@commonplc

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

Washington, DC

Joined February 2024

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Jun 22
"Fraud draws down more than taxpayer money. It draws down trust, the basic currency of the safety net. A program endures only so long as the public believes resources are going where they should—that benefits reach the people who qualify and no one else, whether the ineligible
Safety Nets Have Strings Attached
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Oren Cass
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The chorus of war enthusiasts never loses its enthusiasm for war. Each war is a good idea at the start and, once it turns out not to be a good idea, the answer is more war. On the virtues of Cutting Bait in a Bad War @commonplc:
Cutting Bait on a Bad War
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Commonplace
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Jun 26
"Tariffs only make sense if they are part one of a plan—a strategy for rebuilding the industrial base that made America the dominant economic power of the twentieth century. What should always have been part two. The strategic deployment of the revenues raised has yet to
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Jun 26
Tariffs Are Only Half the Battle
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Jun 25
"Austin is far from an outlier among men without college degrees. In conversations with him and 29 others for Nobody to Call, our research project on friendship, community, and purpose among men without degrees, the unavoidable takeaway was that most were almost completely
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Jun 25
Tenuous Ties
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Jun 25
"In one sense, then, Moyn’s contention is not that gerontocracy is an evil or unfair system, but that real gerontocracy has never been tried." @DeclanLeary reviews Samuel Moyn's Gerontocracy in America.
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Jun 25
Read the full piece here:
What Not to Do About Gerontocracy
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American Compass
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Jun 25
"All of us are endowed by our creator with inherent dignity and worth. It is the purpose of citizenship to protect it." Today, @Chris_Griz opened @SenJudiciaryGOP's hearing on America250 and Reclaiming American Citizenship with the call for legislators to offer a "furiously
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Daniel Kishi
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Jun 23
Wrote about the importance of the White House’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, in this week’s Understanding America @commonplc
JD Vance
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Jun 23
460 criminal charges $6.5B intended loss, $1.4B actual loss $127M seized assets Great work by @SecKennedy, @DAGToddBlanche, @FBIDirectorKash, & @DrOzCMS on today’s fraud takedown. If you’re committing fraud, we’ll find you.
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American Compass
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Jun 22
Join our team! American Compass is looking for a production manager to record and edit podcast episodes, produce digital and promotional content, and more. Learn more here:
Hiring: Production Manager | American Compass
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Jun 22
"If your one friend is in California and you are in Ohio, what is the possibility that you're going to be able to deepen that relationship in person?" Technology and the digital world are not a cure for the crisis of community facing American men without college degrees. Sam
When There’s No One to Call with Sam Pressler
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Commonplace
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Jun 22
"Moyn brushes off conservatives’ worries about the indiscriminate importation of millions of immigrants as a means to delay the economic apocalypse entailed by an inverted population pyramid. Never mind that mass migration is the most obvious cause of young Americans’ challenges
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Jun 22
Read the full piece here:
What Not to Do About Gerontocracy
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Skyler Adleta
@SkylerAdleta
Jun 21
A book about Boomer’s hoarding America’s wealth that also touches on abolishing the senate, creating fixed voting representation via grouping individuals into various blocs, and stripping charities of tax benefits if their mission isn’t state approved. This book sounds nuts.
What Not to Do About Gerontocracy
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Commonplace
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Jun 22
"But the only thing worse than being governed by the old is being governed by the young. This is the irresistible lesson of Samuel Moyn’s Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It. In 215 light but repetitive pages, Moyn outlines
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Commonplace
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Jun 22
Read the full piece here:
What Not to Do About Gerontocracy
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Commonplace
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Jun 22
On the latest American Compass Podcast episode, Sam Pressler joins @oren_cass and @Chris_Griz to make sense of why life has gotten so hard for young men without college degrees, from reduced job prospects to a lack of post-high school pathways.
When There’s No One to Call with Sam Pressler
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