Compact (American magazine)

Planning for the launch of the magazine began in 2020 between Ahmari and Schmitz, who later incorporated Aponte on the condition that half of the site's content cover "material concerns". Compact launched without a paywall for its first few weeks, ==Positions==

The magazine's online mission statement describes its political intentions: According to Danny Postel, writing in New Lines Magazine, its approach is a "'synthesis' of communitarian conservatism and social democracy"." According to Matt McManus, writing in Jacobin, it is "an ideologically syncretic outlet in the spirit of Christopher Lasch". McManus further wrote that "Compact's ambition is to argue for a strong social democratic state that also resists libertine ideologies and upholds local, national, familial, and religious communities." Stephanie Slade, writing in Reason, describes it as the new home of post-liberalism, whose editors espouse "intense religious conservatism [with] a whiff of socialism". Slade wrote: "By bringing a 'labor populism' with deep roots in the socialist tradition and a 'political Catholicism' that questions the very separation of church and state under a single roof, Compact has built an intellectual meeting place not just for post-liberal conservatives but for anti-liberals of every stripe." ==Contributors==

In 2022, the magazine included columnists such as Christopher Caldwell, Lee Smith, Malcom Kyeyune, and Nina Power; and contributing editors including Adrian Vermeule, Glenn Greenwald, Liel Leibovitz, Michael Tracey, Patrick Deneen, Paul Embery, and Slavoj Žižek. == Funding ==

George Soros’s Open Society Foundations have provided financial support to Compact. In 2023, OSF awarded Compact Magazine $200,000. Entrepreneur and political activist Peter Thiel has reportedly donated to Compact, although Thiel denies it. According to a Thiel spokesperson, he "couldn’t rule out the possibility that an entity Thiel funds has in turn donated to the magazine." ==References==