Compact

Compact is an American digital magazine that launched in March 2022. It was co-founded by Edwin Aponte, a Marxist populist, along with Matthew Schmitz, a former editor at the conservative journal First Things, and Sohrab Ahmari, a journalist known for his conservative views. According to The New York Times, the magazine's editorial team is made up of individuals with a range of ideological perspectives, including Marxist feminists, conservative Catholics, and populists. The magazine takes a critical stance on liberalism, addressing it from both leftist and rightist viewpoints.

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Nostalgia as a Political Force

3 days ago | compactmag.com | Frank Furedi

In today’s cultural climate, pride in your nation’s past, affection for stable communities, intact families and, God forbid, the institution of marriage, are all invariably renounced by the great and the good as symptoms of the pathology of nostalgia. What might once have been a harmless indulgence is now rebranded as a political pathology. It is regressive, delusional, dangerous—and if populism’s electoral wins are anything to go by, spreading.
The Working Class Needs Jobs, Not Therapy

6 days ago | compactmag.com | Lisa McKenzie |Lisa Mckenzie

When I saw Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens speaking in her soft voice about “mental health support” for the steelworkers in Port Talbot, I felt physically sick. Just six months ago, Tata Steel shut down Port Talbot’s last two blast furnaces as part of a so-called green transition, resulting in thousands of job losses and the effective end of traditional steelmaking in the town.
Gavin Newsom, Tim Walz, and the Democrats’ Future

6 days ago | compactmag.com | Sam Kahn

Gavin Newsom’s new podcast might have been the last place I would have looked for wisdom about the future of the Democratic Party. I’ve always thought of the California governor as the prince of smarm. His go-to gesture seems to always be the hearty two-handed handshake, which even his podcast’s title and intro sequence—the booming “This is Gavin Newsom,” followed by the diminuendo subheading, “And this is [insert name of guest]”—evokes.
Red States Show the Way for Pro-Family Populism

1 week ago | compactmag.com | Patrick Brown

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Anti-Globalism Against Itself

1 week ago | compactmag.com | Philip Cunliffe

Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far RightBy Quinn SlobodianZone Books, 272 pages, $29.95In 2020, Quinn Slobodian published the best book on the politics of globalization: Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism.
The Great Neoliberal Novelist

1 week ago | compactmag.com | Geoff Shullenberger

In a controversial 1986 essay, “Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism,” the late literary critic Frederic Jameson argued that while the literature of the industrialized West had largely retreated from its political vocation, that wasn’t true of the great writers of the developing world.
The Bad Energy of Casey Means

2 weeks ago | compactmag.com | Arjun S. Byju

Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless HealthBy Casey MeansAvery Press, 400 pages, $32.00For many years, it has been common enough to hear the refrain that large corporations are to blame for all of the world’s problems. Big auto kills public transit; the military-industrial complex was behind the war; Silicon Valley addicts us to our phones. There’s a sense that powerful, profit-oriented forces control our fate, that the game is rigged, life unfair.
Paul Ricoeur and the Crisis of Atheism

2 weeks ago | compactmag.com | David Moulton

Twentieth-century French philosophy continues to inflame the passions of American readers in the 21st. While Anglo-American philosophy can seem impossibly dry and technical, the great French masters still speak to our most urgent concerns. What they say is another matter. Many people still accuse Foucault, Derrida, and company of ruining higher education and possibly Western civilization itself.
Ross Douthat’s Serious Fantasy

3 weeks ago | compactmag.com | Valerie Stivers

What does it take to get a fantasy novel published these days, if not a famous name and a great manuscript? Judging by The Falcon’s Children, a high epic fantasy by conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, it seems the answer is a gimmick of some kind—ultra-violence, soft-core sex, identity politics.
Happy Liberation Day, America

3 weeks ago | compactmag.com | Kenneth Rapoza

Break out the Grizzly cooler and fire up the Broilmaster—it’s Liberation Day. In President Trump’s words, April 2 marks the end of the US of A being “ripped off by virtually every country in the world.” Trump’s trade agenda is a much needed course correction after decades of deindustrialization and failed trade policies geared towards borderless corporations. Liberation Day won’t be all fun and games for the globalists.