# Compact Magazine An online magazine founded in 2022 by [[Sohrab Ahmari]], Matthew Schmitz, and Edwin Aponte. Explicitly positions itself as a "radical American journal" that combines post-liberal conservatism with left-wing economic populism — anti-woke AND anti-corporate, pro-worker AND anti-liberal. ## Function in the New Right Ecosystem Compact's unique contribution is its **left-right synthesis** — attempting to build a post-liberal coalition that includes disaffected leftists alongside [[New Right]] thinkers. This makes it a bridge publication: it publishes Catholic integralists alongside Marxist labor writers, united by opposition to liberalism (both progressive and classical). ## Editorial Position - Anti-liberal (both progressive and classical liberal) - Pro-worker, skeptical of both free-market capitalism and woke capitalism - Catholic-inflected social conservatism - Anti-war / skeptical of US foreign interventionism - Pro-industrial policy - Critical of Big Tech ## Key Figures - [[Sohrab Ahmari]] — Co-founder, leading post-liberal voice - Matthew Schmitz — Co-founder, former literary editor of [[First Things]] - Edwin Aponte — Co-founder, brings left-populist perspective ## Connections - Part of the post-liberal intellectual infrastructure alongside American Affairs and First Things - Publishes writers from across the New Right: NatCons, post-liberals, some NRx-adjacent thinkers - Connected to the [[Edmund Burke Foundation]] / NatCon network via Ahmari ## See Also - [[Sohrab Ahmari]] - [[Catholic Post-Liberalism]] - [[National Conservatism]] - [[American Affairs]] - [[The New Right Ecosystem]]