Nate Hochman is an American political writer and policy adviser who became, in his early twenties, one of the most-quoted voices of the 'New Right.' He went from a Colorado College senior thesis to the staff of National Review, then to Ron DeSantis's 2024 presidential campaign, then to Capitol Hill as a policy adviser to Senator Eric Schmitt. He is known for the line 'conservatism in 2021 means radicalism' and for arguing that the rising generation of the right is more secular, more combative, and more willing to use state power than the movement that raised it.
Oren Cass is the founder and chief economist of American Compass, the think tank that rewired the economic playbook of the American right. A former Bain consultant and domestic policy director for Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign, Cass turned against the free-market orthodoxy he once served and built an intellectual case for tariffs, industrial policy, and worker power that now echoes through the speeches of JD Vance and Marco Rubio. He is the author of The Once and Future Worker and editor of The New Conservatives, and a contributing opinion writer for the Financial Times.