Oren Cass

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Senior Fellow — Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

Oren Cass is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research who has earned degrees from Williams College and Harvard Law School. He worked previously as the domestic policy director for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, a management consultant at Bain & Company, and an editor of the Harvard Law Review. His writing has appeared in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs and National Affairs, and he regularly testifies before Congress. In 2015, Politico listed him as one of the 50 “thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics.”

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