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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Pope Leo’s Challenge

5 days ago | compactmag.com | Dan Hitchens

There was a Pope Leo who saved Rome from Attila the Hun. And a Pope Leo who worked miracles and toured Europe fighting corruption. But presumably neither of them was uppermost in the thoughts of the mild-mannered administrator Robert Prevost, who has just become the 267th Pope, when he chose the name Leo XIV.
The Millennial Darkness of Matthew Gasda

1 week ago | compactmag.com | G.D. Dess |GD Dess

The Sleepersby Matthew Gasda Arcade, 288 pages, $14.99Few contemporary American authors are as in touch with today’s zeitgeist as Matthew Gasda. His break-out play Dimes Square premiered in 2022 and was hailed as both “decadent and delicious.” The play provides a generational snapshot of millennials and aspiring careerists and, as contemporary theater goes, it is “as good as it gets,” reported Vulture.
The Persistence of Lesser-Evil Politics

1 week ago | compactmag.com | John B. Judis

There have been five comprehensive surveys of public opinion in the last two weeks that attempt to assess President Donald Trump’s standing with the public at the end of his first hundred days. The polls are by The New York Times/Siena, The Washington Post/Ipsos, CBS News/YouGov, NPR/Marist, and The Economist/YouGov. Some of the results are unsurprising: Trump is in trouble with the public, but so are the Democrats.
The Great American Novel Will Not Be Substacked

1 week ago | compactmag.com | Valerie Stivers

Major ArcanaBy John PistelliBelt Publishing, 352 pages, $24.95There’s been a recent trend of writers, mostly men, asserting the need for a new kind of fiction writing that will supposedly fix the publishing industry and draw in new readers. I am sympathetic to this movement, which I have been informally labeling “rebellion literature.” The better versions of it go beyond the standard anti-woke or reactionary talking points to offer ideas about what a renewal of the novel would look like.
What Trump Could Learn from the Green New Deal

1 week ago | compactmag.com | Branko Marcetic

Over the past decade or so, the Green New Deal became a useful punching bag for the Republican Party. This policy agenda, associated with progressive lawmakers like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, was much caricatured as a sure path to a bleak future in which government bureaucrats force you to give up your car and drink out of soggy paper straws.
How Trump Won the Canadian Election

2 weeks ago | compactmag.com | Philip Cunliffe

The victory of Mark Carney’s Liberal Party in Canada’s election has been widely viewed as a significant turning point in world politics. On the face of it, the result seems to be a defeat for President Donald Trump and his brand of national populism. Whether or not Trump was serious in his claims on Canadian territory, his bluster provoked a remarkable backlash from Canadian voters.
Spain’s Renewable Energy Nightmare

2 weeks ago | compactmag.com | Emmet Penney

On Monday, Spanish grid operators found themselves sprinting against sunset. The entire country had blacked out. Planes paused on the runway for want of air traffic control. Trains lurched to a stop on the tracks or sat in their bays at the station. Within a few hours, the Spanish government declared a national emergency. The blackouts even touched France and Portugal. Europe is learning another painful lesson about its power sector: If one nation mismanages its grid, its neighbors suffer with it.
Why Harvey Weinstein Should Walk Free

3 weeks ago | compactmag.com | Phelim McAleer |phelim mcaleer

Five years ago, at the height of #MeToo, we sat through every day of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault trial in the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse. It is a bleak place, with its physical decay matching the broken-down justice system we saw inside the building.
Nostalgia as a Political Force

3 weeks 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

3 weeks 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.