The United States is in the midst of a dramatic political realignment with shifting views on national security, economics, technology, and the role of government in our lives. Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff explore this with thinkers, policymakers, and more.
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559 | Saagar Enjeti: What's Next for America and Iran?
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Back from paternity leave, Saagar Enjeti returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Saagar discuss the aftermath of U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iran's nuclear program, how the operation compares to previous interventions, why the non-interventionist MAGA faction lost to interventionists, why alternative media's policy influence relative to its popularity was overstated, and the future of nuclear non-proliferation.
558 | Derek Thompson & Rep. Jake Auchincloss: WelcomeFest 2025 - Can the Abundance Agenda Provide the Center's Missing Vision?
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Last week, Marshall interviewed Abundance co-author Derek Thompson and Representative Jake Auchincloss at WelcomeFest 2025. Marshall, Derek, and Jake's panel focused on the abundance agenda's place in debates about the future of the Democratic Party, the center-left's lack of a defining vision in contrast to the populist left and right's clarity, their reaction to polls indicating populism polls stronger than abundance, the importance of "telling stories" vs. articulating plans for the country, and the need to expand the abundance agenda debate beyond housing to the role of technology and progress in America.
557 | Steve Teles: Can the Abundance Agenda Win America's Factional Future?
Steve Teles in Ezra Klein's NYT column: Opinion | The Abundance Agenda Has Its Own Theory of Power - The New York Times
Josh Barro on Unions and Abundance: In Blue Cities, Abundance Will Require Fighting Labor Unions
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556 | Steve Teles: Are the Abundance Agenda and Populism Incompatible?
Abundance vs. Populism Polling: Poll: Democratic voters prefer "populism" over "abundance"
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Steve Teles, Johns Hopkins University Professor and Niskanen Center Senior Fellow, returns to The Realignment. Steve and Marshall discuss new polling that that indicates voters, especially Democrats, prepare populist economic messaging to the "bottlenecks"-focused abundance agenda, why abundance and populism are complimentary, not oppositional, the dangers of over-focusing on polls (whether you're pro or anti abundance), and how the abundance agenda could address higher education challenges.
555 | Gary Gerstle & Noam Maggor: The Realignment, Post-Neoliberalism, and the Birth of a New Political Order
Post-Neoliberalism Conference: Beyond Neoliberalism
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Historians Gary Gerstle and Noam Maggor, organizers of the Beyond Neoliberalism conference, join The Realignment. Marshall, Noam, and Gary discuss the origins and aims of their conference, why conversations about post-neoliberalism aren't just about wonky, academic jargon, the rise and fall of the New Deal and Neoliberal political orders, why 1990s neoliberal thinking no longer helps us think through today's challenges, the false starts and stops of the post-2016 realignment era, and what a post-neoliberal political order could look like.
554 | Ian Fletcher: Why Industrial Policy and Managed Trade Are Key to America's Future
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Ian Fletcher, co-author of Industrial Policy for the United States: Winning the Competition for Good Jobs and High-Value Industries, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Ian discuss what industrial policy actually means and why it includes trade policy, the rise and fall of free trade orthodoxy, what went right and wrong with Trump and Biden's industrial policy strategies, why "Liberation Day" isn't enough to reindustrialize America, and which industries and technologies the U.S. should focus its attention on.
553 | Steve Teles: Where Does the Abundance Agenda Go Next?
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Steve Teles, Niskanen Center Senior Fellow and Johns Hopkins University professor, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Steve discuss the abundance agenda's future prospects, takeaways from the book tour, the left populist response to abundance, the differences between Steve's "captured economy" thesis and left concerns that abundance is too disinterested in corporate power and big money, and the prospects for right-wing, "dark abundance," during and after the Trump administration.
552 | Mark K. Updegrove: Presidential Character & the Weight of History - What Makes a Good President?
551 | John Cassidy: The Rise of Capitalism's Critics on the Nationalist Right and Democratic Socialist Left
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John Cassidy, New Yorker Staff Writer and author of Capitalism and Its Critics: A History from the Industrial Revolution to AI, joins The Realignment. Marshall and John discuss the rise of anti-capitalist sentiment on the left and right, from President Trump's economic nationalism to the democratic socialism of Senator Bernie Sanders, the missed opportunities of the globalization era, the failures of trade policy, the coming AI disruption, and tensions between tech and democracy.
550 | Elizabeth Wilkins: Abundance and the Left, Antitrust, & the Future of State Capacity
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Elizabeth Wilkins, President and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute and alumn of the White House and Lina Khan's Federal Trade Commission, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Elizabeth discuss why the left has reacted critically to the abundance agenda, her agreement with Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's emphasis on enhancing state capacity, and how to restore faith in government. They explore the tension between technocratic fixes and populist demands, the need for effective political storytelling, and why "small," tangible wins like banning junk fees and non-competes matter as much as big legislative wins.
549 | Former Secretary of Education John B. King: What Comes After the Abolishment of the Department of Education?
Note: During the episode, Marshall discussed Mississippi's disadvantages in K-12 education. It must be noted that according to the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results, Mississippi achieved nation-leading gains in reading and math scores.
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John B. King, former Secretary of Education and author of Teacher By Teacher: The People Who Change Our Lives, joins The Realignment. Marshall and John discuss President Trump's plan to abolish the Department of Education, balancing the role of states and the federal government's role in K-12 schooling, why the education debates of the 2000s and 2010s (charters, reform, NCLB) stalled, the case for and against accountability, and the post-COVID education cultural wars.
548 | Chris Hughes: Why Marketcrafting is the Key to America's Economic Future
Introducing "Endless Frontiers": CFR's Rush Doshi on the U.S.-China Challenge
Axios: Texas science summit draws Trump, Biden, Obama, Bush admin officials
Lux Capital Riskgaming: Riskgaming: The Pessimistic Turn in Reindustrialization
Rush Doshi, C.V. Starr senior fellow for Asia studies and director of the China Strategy Initiative at the Council on Foreign Relations joins for the first episode of the Endless Frontiers podcast. Rush and Endless Frontiers Executive Producer Marshall Kosloff discuss the decade-long goals of Endless Frontiers, America's advantages and disadvantages relative to China in the mid-2020s, the degree to which the national competitiveness conversation can be reduced to our position relative to China, and the need for reindustrialization, defense reform, resilience, and national cohesion in the face of current and emerging challenges.
547 | Krish O'Mara Vignarajah: The Post-Realignment Politics of Refugee Policy and Immigration Reform
Endless Frontiers: Axios - The future of U.S. security is today taking shape in Texas
TedX: Krish O'Mara Vignarajah - What is America's Superpower?
Krish O'Mara Vignarajah, President and CEO of Global Refuge, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Krish discuss Global Refuge's work with American refugee resettlement, the roots of the global backlash against immigration and refugee resettlement, the case for immigration, how pro-immigration groups should respond to the 2024 election, the Biden administration's policy mistakes when it came to the southern border, the role of scarcity in immigration scarcity, and why the post-war consensus around immigration and refugee resettlement broke down.
546 | Rotimi Adeoye: Where Does Abundance, the Anti-Oligarchy Movement, and the Dem Tea Party Go Next?
An Abundance of Ambiguity | Washington Monthly
The Abundance Agenda – People's Policy Project
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Rotimi Adeoye, columnist and MSNBC contributor, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Rotimi discuss the takeaways from Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's Abundance book tour as the abundance agenda picks up steam, the impact of Bernie Sanders and AOC's anti-oligarchy tour, the strengths and weaknesses of the very online attempts to build a Democratic Party equivalent of the GOP's 2010s Tea Party movement, and the difficulties of navigating immigration politics during an era of anti-establishment backlash.
545 | Richard D. Kahlenberg: Is Class-Based Affirmative Action the Future of Higher Education?
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Richard D. Kahlenberg, author of Class Matters: The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce Inequality, and Build Real Diversity at America’s Colleges and Director of the American Identity Project at the Progressive Policy Institute, returns to The Realignment. Richard and Marshall discuss the future of higher education after the Supreme Court ended race-based affirmative action, why America's "river of power" runs through the Ivy League, tensions between class-based affirmative action and differing visions of "merit," higher education's response to the Trump administration's attacks, and the role of public, non-elite institutions in promoting economic opportunity.
544 | State Senator Mallory McMorrow: The Realignment Comes to Michigan
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Mallory McMorrow, Michigan State Senator and author of Hate Won't Win: Find Your Power and Leave This Place Better Than You Found It, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Mallory discuss Michigan's role in American politics in 2024 and beyond, the Abundance Agenda and the centrality of the affordability crisis and government failure for voters, her viral 2022 speech, the end of traditional and 2010s digital media's ability to gatekeep, the differing experiences of Millennials and Gen Z, the rising gender gap between young men and women, and how Democrats should respond to culture war issues.
543 | Rep. Jake Auchincloss: How Democrats Lost the Battle of Ideas During the Realignment
Can the G.O.P. Be a Party of Ideas? - The New York Times
Rep. Jake Auchincloss on Why Democrats Need New Big Ideas | TIME
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542 | Edward Fishman: Chokepoints - How America and Other Great Powers Wage Economic Warfare
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Edward Fishman, author of Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare, joins The Realignment. Edward and Marshall discuss the rise of economic warfare, from the War on Terror to the Obama administration's Iran nuclear deal and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, economic warfare track record when it comes to accomplishing desired political outcomes, the impact of American sanctions on Russia and whether their effects were overstated at the war's outset, the potential deterring effects of economic warfare, their potential use in a U.S.-China conflict over Taiwan, and the greater meaning of the end of the globalization era of the 1990s and 2000s.
541 | Ezra Klein: The Abundance Agenda - Why Liberalism Needs to Build Again
Announcement: Open Philanthropy $120 Abundance and Growth Fund
Job Posting: Open Philanthropy - Senior Program Officer, Abundance and Growth Fund
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Ezra Klein, host of the Ezra Klein Show and co-author of Abundance, joins The Realignment. Ezra and Marshall discuss the Abundance Agenda, the housing crisis, the failure to build infrastructure and clean energy in Blue States, why 21st century liberalism needs an update, abundance's place in the Democratic Party's coalition, and whether wonky ideas can translate into winning political agendas.
540 | Felicia Wong & Steve Teles: Can the Abundance Agenda and Economic Populism Get Along?
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The rise of the abundance faction - Niskanen Center
Felicia Wong, Principal at the Roosevelt Institute, and Steve Teles, Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center and Johns Hopkins University Professor, return to The Realignment. Felicia, Steve, and Marshall debate and discuss the tensions between the rising "Abundance Agenda" faction and left populists, the role of unions, whether one can focus on increasing the supply of scarce goods and lowering prices while also addressing inequality, how to increase the effectiveness of government, and what a synthesis of different parts of the center to left spectrum could look like in 2028 and beyond.
FAI Presents | George P. Bush: Texas at the Center of The Realignment
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George P. Bush, former Texas Land Commissioner, joins The Realignment for the first of a multi-month series on Texas and the future of American politics. Marshall and George discuss the lace and role of Texas in America's political realignment, the rise and fall of Blue Texas from the 2010s-2024, the impact of minorities moving to the right, the complexities of Latino identity, how politicians will respond to the rise of podcasts, his interest in AI's impact on elections, and preview upcoming coverage and interviews on Texas politics and policy.
539 | Didi Kuo & Steve Teles: Why Are Political Parties So Unpopular?
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Didi Kuo, author of The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't, joins the Niskanen Center's Steve Teles and Marshall on The Realignment. Didi, Steve, and Marshall discuss why political parties have reached record levels of unpopularity in the United States, what "good" political parties could look like, the history of party reform organizations like the Democratic Leadership Council of the 1980s and 1990s, the positive case for political parties as a way of organizing the will of the people, and the differences between the American party system and alternatives across the democratic world.
538 | Yoni Appelbaum: Stuck - How the Engine of American Opportunity Broke
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Yoni Appelbaum, author of Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity and Deputy Executive Director of The Atlantic, joins The Realignment. Yoni and Marshall discuss the state of the American Dream, the country's sliding reputation as the "land of opportunity" since the 1970s, why Americans are increasingly immobile, the 19th century heyday of moving, the role of zoning laws and new construction restriction in rising housing prices and immobility, and how to help Americans who don't want to leave their communities.
Pankaj Mishra: The World After Gaza - What Will Trump II Mean for Israel, Palestine, & the Middle East
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Pankaj Mishra, author of The World After Gaza: A History, joins The Realignment. Pankaj and Marshall discuss the origins of October 7th, the possibility of the U.S. "owning" Gaza after the conflict ends, why the Biden administration's approach to the conflict failed, and the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
536 | Marc J. Dunkelman: Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress - and How to Bring It Back
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Marc J. Dunkelman, author of Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back and a Fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, joins The Realignment. Marc and Marshall discuss the central causes of government's inability to accomplish big projects, why America and the progressive movement swing between "Hamiltonian" and "Jeffersonian" moments, why the Hamiltonian nature of ambitious eras like the New Deal, New Frontier, and Great Society lead to Jeffersonian backlash, the limited impact and political failure of the Biden administration's EV charging station policy, and how to balance our need to protect the rights of individuals and local communities with the need to accomplish big goals.
535 | Ross Douthat: Why You Should Be Religious & the Rise of the Post-Christian Right
Opinion | Steve Bannon on ‘Broligarchs’ vs. Populism - The New York Times
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Ross Douthat, New York Times columnist and author of Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Ross discuss the case for serious religious belief in a secularized America, the rise of the post-Christian right, why America could swing in an increasingly religious direction over the next few decades, Ross's recent interview with Steve Bannon on tech's relationship to the right.
534 | Jon Askonas: The Rise of the Tech Right - Smartphones, Porn, DOGE vs. USAID, and the New Trump Coalition
A Future for the Family: A New Technology Agenda for the Right - First Things
Technology for the American Family | National Affairs
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Jon Askonas, FAI Senior Fellow & Assistant Professor, joins The Realignment. Jon and Marshall discuss the right's new technology agenda, the relationship between the family and technology, President Trump's MAGA, MAHA, Tech Right, and conservative coalition, DOGE vs. USAID, and the impact of Silicon Valley's rightward turn on the conservative movement.
533 | Senator Ron Wyden: Why We Need More "Chutzpah" in Politics + Marshall's Baby Announcement
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The Realignment is back from Marshall's parental leave! Today, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, author of It Takes Chutzpah: How to Fight Fearlessly for Progressive Change, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Senator Wyden discuss why American politics could you more "Chutzpah," lessons from his career in activism and politics, what it means to be a progressive, generational change, and the path forward on healthcare.
532 | Juan Williams: The Rise & Fall of the 2nd Civil Rights Movement
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Juan Williams, Fox News Policy Analyst and author of New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America's Second Civil Rights Movement, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Juan discuss how a second civil rights movement centered on policing, incarceration, and inequality rose during the Obama 2010s, demographic change in America since the 1960s, why the second movement didn't produce leadership on the level of Martin Luther King, Jr., where movements succeeded and where it failed, BLM's struggles, the cost of overreaching slogans like "defund the police," and what the Trump backlash means for racial issues in America.
531 | Saagar Enjeti: The Trump Vibe Shift Hits Washington
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Saagar Enjeti, Co-Host of Breaking Points, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Saagar discuss the ways that President Trump's second term could differ from his first, where a second Trump presidency could go right or wrong, and what longstanding political questions were settled in the 2024 election.
530 | Felicia Wong: What Joe Biden's Legacy Means for the Future of American Politics
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Felicia Wong, the outgoing president and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Felicia discuss what the Biden presidency means for the left, where the conversation on "post-neoliberalism" stands after Donald Trump's 2024 victory, the need for new communication strategies in the emerging policy environment, how left and right populism will compete for working class voters, and the new politics of immigration.
529 | Senator Chris Murphy: Can Economic Populism Win the Fight for the Working Class?
Democrats and Republicans Race to Embrace Populism - The Atlantic
Chris Murphy: America Has Problems That the Free Market Can't Solve - The Atlantic
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Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy joins The Realignment. Marshall and Senator Murphy discuss why the 2028 election could come down to which party presents the stronger economic populist case, why the Republican shift towards populism could be undermined by the contradictions of governance, the need for Democrats to speak to voters who disagree on social issues, and the broader crisis of meaning, spirituality, and loneliness in America and its roots in the neoliberal consensus.
528 | Jennifer Pahlka & Andrew Greenway: The State Capacity Agenda for 2025
The How We Need Now: A Capacity Agenda for 2025: The how we need now: a capacity agenda for 2025 - Niskanen Center
Jennifer Pahlka Substack: Eating Policy | Jennifer Pahlka | Substack
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Jennifer Pahlka and Andrew Greenway, co-authors of the Niskanen Center's The How We Need Now: A Capacity Agenda for 2025, join The Realignment. Marshall, Jennifer, and Andrew discuss why state capacity is one of the most important ideas of 2025, the roots of America's inability to build U.S. navy ships on time, 17-year approval processes for "fast-tracked" power projects, and the lack of delivery of the Biden administration's legislative agenda in state capacity failure, and the reforms that left, right, and center should implements moving forward.
527 | Julius Krein: The Blueprint for an American Manufacturing Renaissance
New American Industrial Alliance: Our Mission | NAIA
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Julius Krein, Founder and Editor of American Affairs and Chairman of the New American Industrial Alliance, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Julius discuss the founding of NAIA and its mission to spur a techno-industrial revolution, manufacturing's dominance of American politics since 2016, the pros and cons of Biden-era policies like the IRA and CHIPS Act legislation, Trump's focus on deregulation, trade, and capital deployment, the results of China's decade of industrial policy, and the broader state of American politics after the 2024 election.
526 | Steve Teles & Marshall Kosloff: Abundance and Its Enemies
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In the latest edition of Marshall and Steve Teles of the Niskanen Center and Johns Hopkins University discussion series, they wrap the series for 2024, revisit The New Republic's tradition of offering annual recriminations during the holiday season, and discuss the new series of articles critiquing the abundance agenda.
525 | Noah Smith: The Trends That Will Define American Politics in 2025
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524 | Jason Willick: Why the Resistance Failed to Stop Trump
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Jason Willick, opinion columnist at The Washington Post, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Jason discuss California's past and future as the chief opposition state to Donald Trump, Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom's futures, why the legal approach to opposing Trump failed, and where the Resistance to Trump goes from here.
523 | Misha Chellam: What's Next for the Abundance Agenda?
Abundance Network: Abundance Network
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Misha Chellam, Co-Founder of the Abundance Network, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Misha discuss the state of the Abundance movement, Abundance Network's efforts to organize in states like California, the need to move Abundance conversations beyond coastal blue states towards red states that actually build, and how Realignment listeners can get involved at the local and state level.
522 | Rep. Jake Auchincloss: Democrats Shouldn't Offer Voters Diet Coke Populism When They Order Coca-Cola
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Congressman Jake Auchincloss joins The Realignment. Marshall and Jake discuss the dangers of offering "Diet Coke" populism when voters are clearly ordering "Coke," how politicians should approach independent media and podcasts as cable news declines, what a building and growth centric agenda looks like, the need to address the debt/deficit, and the debate over "wokeness."
521 | Kevin D. Roberts: Trump's Election Mandate and the Legacy of Project 2025
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Dr. Kevin D. Roberts, President of the Heritage Foundation and author of Dawn's Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Kevin discuss why Heritage's Project 2025 plan proved so controversial during the 2024 campaign, the case for radically transforming Washington, the exact nature of Donald Trump electoral mandate, the case against the Department of Education, and the state of the conservative movement during and after Trump.
520 | Reihan Salam: How Republicans Built a Grand New Party During the Trump Era
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Reihan Salam, President of the Manhattan Institute, joins The Realignment. Reihan and Marshall discuss the GOP's transformation from the 200s George W. Bush presidency to Trump's 2024 victory, the party's gains with working-class voters, racial minorities, and men, how his and Ross Douthat's writing about the "Party of Sam's Club" presaged the 20-year transformation of conservatism, and the fractured politics of America's urban regions.
519 | Rep. Ro Khanna: Rebuilding the Democratic Party After Trump's 2024 Victory
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Representative Ro Khanna returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Ro discuss his vision for the post-Biden Democratic Party, how his plans to rebuild America's manufacturing base can actually move voters, what the government can learn from the public sector when it comes to building ambitious projects, podcasting, and the realignment of Latino voters and young men away from Democrats.
Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff Discussion & AMA: How Will a Second Trump Presidency Go? - Free Edition
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In the latest edition of Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloffs discussion and AMA series, they discuss the implications of Donald Trump's victory over Kamala Harris, whether Trump will misinterpret his mandate, immigration policy and the mass-deportation plan, why the left can't build a Joe Rogan equivalent, and more...
517 | Steve Teles & Marshall Kosloff: 2024 Election Autopsy Part I - The Democrats
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In the latest edition of Marshall and Steve Teles of the Niskanen Center and Johns Hopkins University discussion series, they discuss reasons behind Kamala Harris's loss to Donald Trump, the debate over whether Kamala should have gone on the Joe Rogan Experience, whether 2010s-2022 "wokeness" fatally wounded Democrats, what a successful 2028 nominee needs to learn from 2024, and of course, a shoutout to the Abundance Agenda.
We're All in the Realignment Know - Reflections on Trump's 2024 Election Victory
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In today's episode, Marshall reacts to Donald Trump's 2024 election victory over Kamala Harris. He discusses the arrival of the long-forecasted racial realignment, Joe Rogan's impact on the race, how Joe Biden and previous presidents misread their post-election mandates, why abortion wasn't the 2024 election's decisive issues, the future of America's foreign policy, and more...
Horns of a Dilemma: Danielle Pletka - What the 2024 Election Means for America's Foreign Policy
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In a cross-over with Marshall's UT-Austin Clements Center for National Security/Texas National Security Review podcast, Horns of a Dilemma, AEI's Danielle Pletka and Marshall discuss the impact of the 2024 election on America's foreign policy. They discuss the evolution of America's foreign policy on the right and left since the Obama presidency, the state of the Middle East, the War in Ukraine, and what medium-term opportunities the U.S. can seize in the 2020s.
516 | Marshall Kosloff & Saagar Enjeti: The Realignment's 2024 Election Day Special
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In a special edition of The Realignment podcast, Marshall and Saagar discuss today's ongoing presidential election. They discuss whether the issue of "character" should determine one's vote, what the realignment's framework got right (and wrong), and the prospects for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump on election night.
515 | Timothy Shenk: Has the Left Lost the Realignment?
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Timothy Shenk, GWU Professor and author of Left Adrift: What Happened to Liberal Politics, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Timothy discuss how culture has replaced economics as the electorate's dividing line, the multiple paths forward for Democrats after they began to lose working-class voters in the 1980s, why political consultants are more important than one would think, and whether the left or right will come out ahead as the American political system realigns.
514 | Steve Teles: What Does the Post-November Policy Agenda Look Like?
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Steve Teles, John Hopkins University Professor and Niskanen Center Senior Fellow, returns to The Realignment. On the latest edition of Marshall and Steve's monthly one-on-one, they discuss the policy landscape after the November election (regardless of who wins), their theories of political change, the country's ongoing mood shift from the 2000s and 2010s, and more...
513 | Alex Trembath: How America Can Build an Abundant Clean Energy Future
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Alex Trembath, Deputy Director of the Breakthrough Institute, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Alex discuss the takeaways from Abundance 2024, the case for Ecomodernism, the rise and fall (and rise) of climate policy from An Inconvenient Truth to the Inflation Reduction Act, lessons from the clean energy space for other parts of the Abundance Agenda, and why blue states like California aren’t able to build clean energy, housing, and infrastructure as much as red states like Texas.
Saagar & Marshall Supercast AMA & Discussion Preview: State of the 2024 Race, Climate Protestors at Marshall's Abundance Agenda Event, Audience Qs, and More...
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In the latest edition of The Realignment's weekend Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Saagar and Marshall discuss the present state of the 2024 election, climate protestors at Marshall's Abundance Agenda event, answer audience questions, and more.
512 | Cameron Abadi: Why Radical Climate Activism Isn't Helping Environmental Politics
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This episode's focus on the (lack of) effectiveness of radical climate activism was perfectly timed. Right after Marshall recorded the intro, activists from Climate Defiance stormed the stage of the Abundance 2024 conference he's MCing in DC. They interrupted Matt Yglesias's interview with The Atlantic's Derek Thompson on the "Abundance Agenda" because of Matt's support for fracking. Today's guest is Foreign Policy's Cameron Abadi, author of Climate Radicals: Why Our Environmental Politics Isn't Working. Marshall and Cameron discuss why doom-centric radical activism isn't advancing the environmental policy agenda in Europe, the state of climate politics in the U.S., and the broader debate over whether it is best to work outside or within the system to enact change.
511 | Admiral James Stavridis: Pre-War America, the U.S. Navy, and How the Lessons of the 1930s Apply to Today
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Admiral James Stavridis, former NATO Allied Supreme Commander and author of The Restless Wave: A Novel of the United States Navy, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Admiral Stavridis discuss how the challenges facing America in the 1930s: debates over isolationism, economic pessimism, and a military establishment in need of reform, mirror those of the 2020s, the differences between writing a novel about the past vs. the near future, the ever-evolving role of the Navy, and why America's WWII legacy is increasingly controversial.
Realignment Supercast AMA & Discussion Preview: How Can Listeners Advance the Abundance Agenda, 2024 Winner Prediction, JD Vance as VP, and More...
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In the latest edition of The Realignment's weekend Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Marshall answers subscriber's AMA questions. He offers advice and how listeners can join and impact the Abundance Agenda, predicts who win the 2024 election, why disaster news-cycles don't last very long, who will pick up Trump's GOP mantle after 2028, whether VP JD Vance could influence Trump on policy, and more...
510 | Steve Teles & Marshall Kosloff: Why We Embraced the Abundance Agenda
Steve Teles | The Rise of the Abundance Faction: The rise of the abundance faction (niskanencenter.org)
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509 | H.W. Brands: America First - Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh and the Long Shadow of WWII
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H.W. Brands, Jack S. Blanton Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin and author of America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War, joins The Realignment. Marshall and H.W. discuss the ways that FDR and Charles Lindbergh's debate over American intervention in WWII parallel today's debates over Ukraine and Taiwan, the origins of the phrase "America First," why non-interventionism shouldn't be dismissed out of hand, why FDR won the "great debate" with the America First Committee, even before Pearl Harbor, and how Lindbergh's story offers lessons for humility when approaching politics and war from the outsider's perspective.
508 | Gary Winslett: The New Cost-of-Living Agenda, Abundance, and Supply-Side Reform
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Gary Winslett, Chamber of Progress Senior Advisor, Middlebury College Professor, and author of the Democratic Cost-of-Living Agenda, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Gary discuss why voters rank rising costs as their top election concern, how housing, energy, infrastructure, healthcare, and childcare are limited by a lack of supply and rising costs, the case for the abundance agenda and supply-side progressivism, and the increasing bipartisan consensus in favor of reform.
507 | Max Boot: The End of the Reagan Era and the Future of the GOP
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Max Boot, Washington Post columnist and author of Reagan: His Life and Legacy, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Max discuss whether (unlike previous Republican Presidents and nominees) Reagan would have supported Trump, why the Reagan Era of American politics is coming to an end, whether Never Trump identifying conservatives have a future in the Republican Party, and why Biden's attempt to create a center-left version of Reagan's presidency failed.
Reboot 2024: Silicon Valley's Pivot to the Right - Teddy Schleifer & Samo Burja
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Earlier this month, Marshall moderated multiple panels at the Foundation for American Innovation's Reboot 2024: The New Reality. Today's episode is a conversation between Marshall, New York Times reporter Teddy Schleifer, and Bismark Analysis founder Samo Burja. They discuss the degree to which Silicon Valley has moved to the right during the Trump era, whether the post-Biden Democratic Party can win back the tech industry's center, and the role of the techlash in shifting the valley's ideology.
Rep. Ro Khanna: How to Make America a Manufacturing Superpower Again
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Rep. Ro Khanna, Congressman for California's 17th District and author of Progressive Capitalism: How to Make Tech Work for All of Us, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Ro discuss his vision for the country, how to make America a manufacturing superpower again, what populists got wrong during the Trump-Biden era, why the Biden economic approach didn't resonate with voters, and the need to broaden the reindustrialization conversation away from semiconductors and clean energy.
Saagar & Marshall Supercast AMA & Discussion Preview: The Future of the Pro-Life Movement and the GOP, 9/11 Revisionism, Audience Qs, and More...
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In the latest edition of The Realignment's Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Marshall and Saagar discuss the fate of the pro-life movement and the GOP in the face of an increasingly pro-choice electorate, respond to attempts to revise our understanding of Osama bin Laden and 9/11, and respond to subscriber questions.
Reboot 2024: Preparing for Multipolarity - Jamil Jaffer, Josh Steinman, and Megan Reiss
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Last week, Marshall moderated multiple panels at the Foundation for American Innovation's Reboot 2024: The New Reality. Today's episode is a conversation between Marshall, National Security Institute Executive Director Jamil Jaffer, Galvanick CEO and Trump National Security Council alum Josh Steinman, and SolidIntel CEO and former National Security Advisor to Senator Mitt Romney Megan Reiss. They discuss how America should adapt to an increasingly multipolar world order, what foreign and defense policy should look like in an era of limits, and the prospective foreign policies of former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.
505 | Stephanie Baker: Lessons from the Unprecedented Economic War to Stop Russia in Ukraine
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Stephanie Baker, Bloomberg News reporter and author of Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Stephanie discuss the impact of the sanctions placed on Russia following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, why initial claims of their impact on Russia's economy were overblown, the long-term costs of economic warfare on Russia's war machine, and the impact of the sanctions debate on a possible conflict over Taiwan.
504 | Matt Grossmann: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Realigned American Politics
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Matt Grossmann, Director of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research, Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center, and co-author of Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Matt discuss how the growing diploma divide reshaped post-Cold War politics, how Democrats became the party of highly-educated Americans who trust credentialed experts and Republicans became populists supported by voters without college degrees who distrust institutions, why the culture wars increasingly feel perpetual, and how every aspect of non-political American culture politicized over the past 40 years.
Conor Dougherty: How to Fix America's Housing Crisis - Supply & Demand, Wall Street's Role, and New Cities
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Conor Dougherty, New York Times reporter and author of Golden Gates: The Housing Crisis and a Reckoning for the American Dream, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Conor discuss how and why the housing crisis became one the 2024 election's biggest policy issues, the proper mix of supply and demand approaches to increasing the overall supply of housing, whether Wall Street investors are responsible for the problem, and the viability of new city projects like California Forever.
Saagar & Marshall Supercast AMA & Discussion Preview: Labor Day Weekend Edition, Unpacking the DNC, State of the Race, and More...
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Marshall and Saagar are back for a Labor Day weekend edition of The Realignment's AMA and discussion series for Supercast subscribers. They discuss Saagar's coverage of the Democratic National Convention, analyze the state of the race, answers subscriber AMAs, and more...
502 | Rogé Karma: The End of Reaganomics, the Rise and Fall of Bidenomics, and Why It's Time to Build Again in America
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501 | James Pogue: Reform vs. Tearing Down the System - How to Fix Post-Neoliberal America's Crisis of Identity and Meaning
James Pogue: The Senator Warning Democrats of a Crisis Unfolding Beneath Their Noses
James Pogue: Inside the New Right, Where Peter Thiel Is Placing His Biggest Bets
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James Pogue, writer of multiple articles on neoliberalism, the New Right, and America after Neoliberalism, joins The Realignment. James and Marshall discuss his NYT article on Senator Chris Murphy's efforts to realign the Democratic Party, the cost of Neoliberalism, why the New Right has struggled to build a successful political movement, the disillusionment of young men, and why America is facing a crisis of identity and meaning despite material progress and economic plenty.
500 | Michael Kazin: The Democratic Party's Unfinished Realignment and the Future of Populist Politics
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Michael Kazin, author of What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Michael review the 2024 Democratic National Convention, discuss the Democratic Party's evolution since 2016, fight for working-class voters, why the party is swinging left on economics, but moving to the center on crime and immigration, and the prospects for economic and cultural populism moving forward.
499 | Geoffrey Kabaservice: The Rise of Neopopulism, a New Centrism, the Abundance Agenda, and the Next Era of American Politics
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NYT on the emerging neopopulist consensus: A New Centrism Is Rising in Washington
Niskanen: Geoff on the Rise of a New Pragmatism
Reformocons: Can the GOP Be a Party of Ideas?
Reihan Salam & Ross Douthat: The Party of Sam's Club
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Geoffrey Kabaservice, Niskanen's VP of Political Studies and author of Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, joins The Realignment. Geoffrey and Marshall discuss the rise of "neopopulism" and "a new centrism" in Washington, the evolution of the Republican Party since the Obama era, the case for a pragmatic approach to governance, the pros and cons of "moderation," and how the abundance agenda can learn from previous failed reform movements.
498 | Nicholas A. Lambert: Alfred Thayer Mahan's Legacy & Why Sea Power Still Determines the Fate of Nations
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Nicholas A. Lambert, author of The Neptune Factor: Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Concept of Sea Power, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Nicholas discuss why Alfred Thayer Mahan's 19th century work on The Influence of Sea Power Upon was so influential, how today's era of globalization, geopolitical rivalry, and economic entanglement rhymes with the pre-WWI period, the importance of naval power today, and how policymakers and the military consistently fail to focus their attention on the right metrics of success.
497 | Anupreeta Das: How Tech Billionaires Reshaped America
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Anupreeta Das, South Asia Correspondent for The New York Times and author of Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World, joins The Realignment. Anupreeta and Marshall discuss how the era of internet-driven tech wealth compares to the 19th century Gilded Age, lessons from the rise and fall of Microsoft in the 1990s, the state of antitrust against tech companies, and whether billionaires have had a net positive or negative effect on the U.S. in the early 21st century.
Saagar & Marshall Supercast AMA & Discussion Preview: Tim Walz's VP Selection, Trump and JD's Struggles, and the State of the 2024 Race
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In the latest edition of The Realignment's weekend Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Marshall and Saagar discuss Tim Walz's VP selection, the Trump campaign's struggles, the overall state of the race, answer subscriber questions, and more...
496 | Derek Kaufman: How the Abundance Agenda Can Remake American Politics
Inclusive Abundance Initiative: What is Abundance
Derek Thompson: A Simple Plan to Solve All of America's Problems
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Derek Kaufman, Founder and CEO of the Inclusive Abundance Initiative, joins The Realignment. Following up on The Realignment's episodes with Niskanen's Steven Teles, Marshall and Derek flesh out the components of the abundance agenda, discuss why defining abundance as the central policy objective can sidestep culture war dead ends and build new coalitions, and explore opportunities for abundance minded politicians, activists, and staffers.
RE: Something Interesting - Sara Sadhwani & Juan Diego Ramirez on America's Racial Realignment and the 2024 Election
Nationaly Podcast: Nationly - Immigrantly (immigrantlypod.com)
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Professor Sara Sadhwani and journalist Juan Diego Ramirez join Marshall to discuss the role of race and identity in the 2024 election. Sara and Juan co-host Nationly, a limited election series podcast covering critical swing states through the lens of minority communities. They discuss why America is slowly but surely starting to depolarize away from race towards class identity, the contradictory roots of increasing Latino support for Trump, and the tension between individualism and the wider community.
495 | Justin Slaughter: What Role Will Crypto Policy Play in the 2024 Election?
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Justin Slaughter, Policy Director at Paradigm, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Justin discuss the role that crypto currency policy will play in the 2024 election, whether "crypto" voters exist, why it seems like the crypto space increasingly leans to the political right, and how the government's regulatory approach to the space should evolve.
J.D. Vance and the Future of the Right w/Oren Cass, Marshall Kosloff, & Jon Askonas
Trump’s pick of J.D. Vance as his running mate is seen by many as the culmination of a years-long realignment of Republican and conservative politics—away from trickle-down economics toward a more populist, worker-oriented direction. While the pick ushered in a flood of reactions and think pieces, it’s unclear at this stage what Vance’s impact would truly be in a Trump second term. Will Vance be able to overcome some of Trump’s more establishment-friendly positions on taxes and regulation? Will he advocate that Trump continue some of Biden’s policies on tech policy, particularly the administration’s actions against companies like Google, Amazon, and Apple? How might Vance influence policies on high-tech manufacturing, defense technology, and artificial intelligence?
Evan is joined by Oren Cass, Chief Economist and Founder of American Compass and the author of The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America. Read his recent op-ed in the New York Times on populism and his recent piece in Financial Times on Vance. Subscribe to his Substack, “Understanding America.”
Evan is also joined by Marshall Kosloff, co-host of The Realignment podcast, sponsored by FAI, that has been chronicling the shifting politics of the U.S. for several years, as well as by Jon Askonas, professor of politics at Catholic University and senior fellow at FAI.
Saagar & Marshall Supercast AMA & Discussion Preview: And We're Back...The Democrats After Biden, JD Vance VP Selection, and the Future of the GOP
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In the latest edition of The Realignment's weekend Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Marshall and Saagar return from The Realignment's wedding summer break to discuss the state of the Democratic Party after VP Kamala Harris secured the nomination from Biden, the prospect for Senator JD Vance's VP nomination, the state of the Republican Party, and respond to subscriber Ask Me Anything Questions.
494 | Raj Shah: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
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In a cross-over episode with Hudson's Arsenal of Democracy podcast, Raj Shah, former Director of the Defense Innovation Unit, Managing Parter at Shield Capital, and co-author of Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War, joins The Realignment. Raj and Marshall discuss the evolution of Silicon Valley's relationship with the U.S. military since the 2010s, his time directing the Defense Innovation Unit, where D.C. stands in the way of innovation, and how lessons from today's current conflicts should shape our approach to the future.
Quick Reflections on Biden's Exit, the Harris Campaign, and Trump's 2024 Prospects
In this quick audio essay, Marshall reacts to President Biden's exit from the 2024 campaign, analyzes the prospects for Vice President Harris, and wonders whether former President Trump is prepared for an election that could no longer be a referendum on Biden's unpopular presidency.
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493 | Zack Beauchamp: The Reactionary Spirit - The Battle for Democracy in the U.S., Hungary, Israel, India, and Beyond
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Zack Beauchamp, Vox Senior Correspondent and author of The Reactionary Spirit: How America's Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World, joins The Realignment. Zack and Marshall discuss the American origins of the reactionary backlash against liberal democracy, the difference between conservatism and reactionary thought, and the case studies of Hungary, Israel, and India.
492 | Curt Mills: The Bull Case for President Biden's Reelection and the Future of the GOP
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In a conversation recorded before the assassination attempt on former President Trump. Curt Mills, Executive Director of The American Conservative, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Curt discuss why he believes President Biden's 2024 campaign is underrated, the explanation for Democrats' lead in swing state Senate races despite Biden's trailing poll numbers, the state of the Republican Party and the conservative movement, and the lessons from the 2022 midterm upset.
RE: Something Interesting | Nat Eliason on Crypto Confidential - Winning and Losing Millions on the New Frontier of Finance
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Note: This upcoming Sunday will feature a free Ask Me Anything episode focused on President Biden's 2024 campaign, the results of Thursday's presser, and the upcoming RNC. Submit your questions at The Realignment's email address or on Supercast. On today's episode, Nat Eliason, author of Crypto Confidential: Winning and Losing Millions in the New Frontier of Finance, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Nat discuss the state of the crypto market from 2021 to 2024, crypto use cases, and the long-term bull case for blockchain-based tech and products.
491 | Jonathan Darman: Why Joe Biden Didn't Drop Out and the Lessons of 1968
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Vanity Fair - Jonathan Darman | What Biden Can Learn from LBJ's Decision to Drop Out in 1968
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Season Premiere: Jonathan Darman, journalist, historian, and author of Landslide: LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America & Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Jonathan discuss why efforts to convince or force President Biden to drop his reelection bid failed, how LBJ's decision to leave the race at the height of the Vietnam War in 1968 informs how we understand Biden's motivations, the ways that the 1944, 1968, 1980, and 1984 elections offer parallels to today, and why there hasn't been a landslide electoral victory by either party in decades.
490 | Steven Teles Part II: How to Enact the Abundance Agenda, the State of Universities, and Why Conservatives Are Avoiding Academia
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The Rise of the Abundance Faction: The rise of the abundance faction (substack.com)
National Affairs: Beyond Academic Sectarianism
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Steven Teles, Johns Hopkins University Professor and Niskanen Center Senior Fellow, returns to The Realignment for the second half of his conversation. Steven and Marshall answer audience questions about the abundance agenda and America's factional political future, discuss his new National Affairs article examining the causes of conservative underrepresentation on college campuses, and explore what listeners who're interested building the abundance agenda's infrastructure should do next.
489 | Aaron Renn: The Sources of American Renewal, the Return of the Neoliberals, and Why Populists Can't Govern
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Aaron Renn, writer and Co-Founder of American Reformer, joins The Realignment. Aaron and Marshall discuss why despite his conservatism, he believes that the "neoliberal, non-woke-technocratic left" will be the source of American policy renewal, the case for the abundance agenda, populism's inability to solve the issues it identifies, the emerging bipartisan consensus around economic issues, and how today's political moment rhymes with that of the late 1970s.
Saagar & Marshall Supercast AMA & Discussion Preview: Prepping for the Biden-Trump Presidential Debate, RFK Jr.'s Lack of Inclusion, and More...
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In the latest edition of The Realignment's weekend Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Saagar and Marshall discuss the upcoming presidential debates between President Biden and former President Trump, the how and the why behind RFK Jr.'s lack of inclusion, the overall state of the race, and take audience questions.
488: Gen. Frank McKenzie: High Command and War in the 21st Century - From the Killing of Soleimani to the Fall of Kabul
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Gen. Frank McKenzie, retired Commander of U.S. Central Command and author of The Melting Point: High Command and War in the 21st Century, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Frank discuss his time at Central Command, from the strikes on Qassem Soleimani and two leaders of ISIS to deterrence operations against Iran and the U.S. withdrawal from Kabul. They also discuss The Melting Point's three themes: civilian control of the military, the role of the combatant commander, and the centrality of leaders in today's battlefield environment.
487: John Ganz: How the 1990s Broke America - Con Men, and Conspiracies, and a Failed Transition from the Reagan Years
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John Ganz, author of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s, joins The Realignment. Marshall and John discuss 2020s nostalgia for the 1990s, the misplaced belief that the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War represented the "end of history," the early 1990s rise of outsider, third-party presidential candidates, and the role that con men and conspiracy theories played in cracking up the country.
486 | Ruchir Sharma: What Went Wrong with Capitalism - Bailouts, Low Growth, Spiraling Debt, and the Case for Neoliberalism
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Ruchir Sharma, author of What Went Wrong with Capitalism, joins The Realignment. In this episode, Ruchir argues that many of America's ills and the populace's rejection of the status quo stems from too little, as opposed to too much market-focused thought, offers a revisionist history of the post-1980s Neoliberal era, makes the case against the rising rate of government bailouts of private industry, and instead offers a vision focused on reducing debt, increasing productivity, and growth-focused deregulation.
485 | Peter S. Goodman: How the World Ran Out of Everything - Inside the Global Supply Chain
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Peter S. Goodman, Global Economics Correspondent for the New York Times and author of How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain, returns to The Realignment. Peter and Marshall discuss the innerworkings of the global supply chain and the factors that have led to its constant vulnerability, whether the issues that caused the 2021 pre-Christmas crunch have been addressed, and how we can finally build a reliable and resilient supply chain in the future.
Saagar & Marshall Supercast AMA & Discussion Preview: Reflecting on the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings
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In the latest edition of The Realignment's weekend Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Saagar and Marshall take a break from the daily news + current events grind and discuss the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, offer historical reading/viewing recommendations, and take audience questions.
484 | Steven Teles: The Rise of the Abundance Agenda & America's Factional Political Future
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The Rise of the Abundance Faction: The rise of the abundance faction (substack.com)
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Steven Teles, Johns Hopkins University Professor and Niskanen Center Senior Fellow, returns to The Realignment. Steven and Marshall discuss why political factions within the left and right will upend the last thirty years of party politics, the poor track record of moderate reform efforts, the importance of enhancing state-capacity, the abundance agenda's ability to confront economic stagnation, the need for a reform movement on the level of 19th century progressives, and the path to overcoming political polarization.
483 | John Strausbaugh: The Wrong Stuff - How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned
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John Strausbaugh, author of The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Union Crashed and Burned, joins The Realignment. Marshall and John discuss the rise and fall of the USSR's space program, why the U.S. had the "Right Stuff" while the Soviet's had the "Wrong Stuff" needed for long-term success, how NASA lost its way after the Apollo Moon landings, and the implications for the second space race between the U.S., China, and the private companies like SpaceX caught in the middle.
482 | Stephanie Ternullo: How Democrats Lost White Voters in the Heartland
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Stephanie Ternullo, author of How the Heartland Went Red: Why Local Forces Matter in an Age of Nationalized Politics and Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Stephanie discuss how focusing on local contexts helps explain why White voters continue to shift to the right, why the New Deal coalition broke down, the debate over whether all politics is local or increasingly nationalized, and how these dynamics defined the 2016 and 2020 elections.
481 | Kyla Scanlon: Why America Is Stuck in a "Vibecession"
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Kyla Scanlon, Bloomberg contributor and author of In This Economy?: How Money & Markets Really Work, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Kyla discuss how she originated the term "Vibecession," and why it perfectly describes the mood of mid-2020s America, educational gaps when it comes to money and market related topics, using social media and publishing tools such as Substack to inform audiences, generational differences, and why she believes the "Abundance Agenda" is the best hope for improving economic opportunity.
Saagar & Marshall Supercast AMA & Discussion Preview: Debating Israel, Gaza, and the U.S. Response, America's Alliance System, Breaking Points on Rumble, 2024 Prospects, and More...
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In the latest edition of The Realignment's weekend Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Saagar and Marshall debate and discuss how the U.S. should have approached Israel's war against Hamas, the impacts of Israel-Palestine on the 2024 election, Biden vs. Trump's electoral prospects, Breaking Points's transition to Rumble, and more...
480 | Heath Brown: Did Biden's Rocky Transition to the Presidency Set His Administration Up for Failure?
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Heath Brown, author of Roadblocked: Joe Biden's Rocky Transition to the Presidency and Associate Professor CUNY's John Jay College of Criminal Justice, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Heath discuss the increasing political significance and attention paid to presidential transitions, why the transition from Trump to Biden went poorly, how outside interests groups influence incoming administrations, the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, and whether Biden should have aimed for a "transformational" presidency in the first place?
479 | David Ignatius: The First Space War, Ukraine & China Challenges, Biden's Age, and America's New Age of Reform
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David Ignatius, Washington Post columnist and author of Phantom Orbit: A Thriller, joins The Realignment. David and Marshall why outer space defines the present and future of great power conflict, Ukraine's path forward, how to avert a hot war with China, the state of Biden's 2024 campaign, and why America is overdue for an era of political reform in the spirit of Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive movement.
478 | Craig Whitlock: The Story of "Fat Leonard" - How One Man Seduced and Corrupted the U.S. Navy
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Craig Whitlock, Washington Post reporter and author of Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy & The Afghanistan Papers, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Craig discuss how a Malaysian defense contractor, Leonard Francis (nicknamed "Fat Leonard"), bribed scores of high-ranking U.S. Navy officers across three decades, defrauded the Navy out of tens of millions of dollars, exposed vast security and counter-intelligence gaps in the military, and the reforms needed to prevent future corruption scandals.
477 | Nellie Bowles: Waking Up the Morning After the 2020 Revolution
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Nellie Bowles, writer, former New York Times reporter, and author of Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Nellie discuss why some of the most educated people in America lost their minds in 2020, what she learned investigating and reporting on Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) and Antifa protests in Portland, and why 2020 reckoning inspired moves like abolishing the SAT, defunding the police, and drug decriminalization are running out of steam.
476 | Edward F. O'Keefe: The Era, Women, and Realignment That Made Theodore Roosevelt
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Edward F. O'Keefe, CEO of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation and author of The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President, joins The Realignment. He joins the show as part of The Realignment's coverage of the American presidency during the lead up to the 2024 election. Marshall and Edward discuss why they believe Theodore Roosevelt is the most compelling and interesting president, the ways that Roosevelt's rugged 19th century masculinity was shsaped by his mother, sisters, and wives, how he navigated America's industrial era realignment, and the future plans to build a Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota.
475 | Bayard Winthrop: Why America Must Rebuild Its Domestic Manufacturing Base
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Bayard Winthrop, Founder and CEO of American Giant, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Bayard discuss American Giant’s work primarily sourcing and manufacturing its clothing in the U.S., what the clothing industry could teach other attempts to re-shore post-COVID, how Washington helps (and impedes) manufacturers, and the importance of domestic production and its impact on jobs, society, trade policy, and supply chain resilience.
Saagar & Marshall Supercast AMA & Discussion Preview: Campus Protests, the Cost of Middle East Ignorance, and the Roots of Third Party Political Failure
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In the latest edition of The Realignment's weekend Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Saagar and Marshall evaluate whether the campus protests sweeping schools across the country are effective, analyze the question of whether bipartisan policy failure in the Middle East is due to ignorance, and discuss why third parties and their candidates such as Ross Perot and RFK Jr. fail to translate their initial ballot success into long-term political change.
474 | David E. Sanger: New Cold Wars - China & Russia Against America the West
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David E. Sanger, White House & National Security Correspondent for the New York Times and author of New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West, joins The Realignment. Marshall and David discuss how the U.S. found itself in a volatile, nuclear-powered rivalry with Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia, the economic, political, military, and technological aspects of the contest for supremacy, and whether the U.S. is up to the task.
473 | Dmitri Alperovitch: Why the Fight for Taiwan Will Define the 21st Century
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Dmitri Alperovitch, author of World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Dmitri discuss why he believes that Xi Jinping is preparing to invade Taiwan this decade, why a Chinese invasion would be disastrous for the U.S. and the world, how to apply the lessons from Vladimir Putin's preparations for his Ukraine invasion to the Taiwan question, and the strategies the U.S. and her allies can pursue to deter, and win if necessary, a conflict over Taiwan.
472 | Dana Mattioli: Amazon's Quest for Domination, Antitrust's Return, and the Rise of Lina Khan
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Dana Mattioli, Wall Street Journal reporter and author of The Everything War: Amazon's Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Dana discuss Amazon's rise through the lens of debates about corporate power, why FTC Chair Lina Khan's 2017 law review article kicked off a new era of government antitrust regulation, and why the FTC's 2023 monopoly lawsuit against Amazon could be one of the largest antitrust cases of the 21st century.
471 | Natalie Foster: Universal Basic Income, the Expanded Child-Tax-Credit, & Why America's Economy Will Be Based on "Guarantees"
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Natalie Foster, author of The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America’s Next Economy and President & Cofounder of the Economic Security Project, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Natalie discuss how the 2016 election and the COVID pandemic created the opportunity to shift the conventional wisdom about the American economy away from the neoliberal status quo, what an economy built around "guarantees" would look like, lessons from UBI experiments and the expansion of the Child-Tax-Credit, and how progressives should respond to post-COVID inflation's dampening of support for government spending programs.
Saagar & Marshall Supercast AMA & Discussion Preview: How the U.S. Should Handle Israel & Iran's Escalation, Ukraine Aid's Passage Means for the Battlefield, Audience Questions, and More...
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In the latest edition of The Realignment's weekend Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Saagar and Marshall discuss the fallout from Iran and Israel's latest escalation cycle, what the passage of Ukraine aid means for the battlefield and Zelensky's political strategy, take-aways from their latest live events (conference on black conservatism and an Israel livestream debate), take audience questions, and more...
RE: Something Interesting | Steven Kurutz on the Entrepreneurs Bringing the Art & Business of Making Clothes Back to the USA
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Steven Kurutz, a features writer at The New York Times and author of American Flannel: How a Band of Entrepreneurs Are Bringing the Art and Business of Making Clothes Back Home, joins the show. Marshall and Steven discuss how and why Americans went from wearing 70% domestic-made apparel to almost none, the revival of domestic clothes manufacturing in the 2000s and 2010s, and how the lessons of the industry's domestic revival applies to post-COVID reshoring opportunities in critical industries.
Realignment Ask Me Anything | Supercast Anniversary Edition - Show's Future, Texas Book Pitch, and 2028 & Beyond (Full Episode)
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To celebrate the anniversary of The Realignment's Supercast subscription, Marshall recorded a special, best-of edition where he answers questions on everything from the show's future to his Texas-centered book idea and more...
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The Realignment is taking the day off so that Marshall can travel to Dallas to moderate a conference panel. There is however, a new episode of his Hudson Institute podcast, Arsenal of Democracy, summing up the lessons from the recent TikTok legislative debate and what it means for U.S. digital sovereignty and political economy.
470 | Nick Troiano: Are Party Primaries the Cause of America's Political Dysfunction?
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Nick Troiano, author of The Primary Solution: Rescuing Our Democracy from the Fringes and founding executive director of Unite America, joins The Realignment. Marshall discuss the case against party primaries, how politicians respond to the structure of the American political system, the lessons and results of 2020s election reforms, and whether proposed election reforms benefit one side of the aisle over the other.
Saagar & Marshall Supercast AMA & Discussion Preview: Working at the Institute for the Study of War, Thoughts on Japanese Culture and Ally-Status, Barstool Conservatism's Future, Trump's VP Choice, and More...
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469 | Taylor Lorenz & Corbin Barthold: The Case Against the TikTok Sale Legislation
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Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post columnist and author of Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, and Corbin Barthold, TechFreedom's Internet Policy Counsel and Director of Appellate Litigation, join The Realignment. In this two-part episode, Marshall and Taylor discuss her work on the creator economy, broader story of the social internet's development, and her opposition to the House legislation to force ByteDance to divest itself from TikTok. Then, Marshall and Corbin discuss his belief that the legislation as written violates the First Amendment.
468 | Adam Klein: Why TikTok Should Be Owned by Americans
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Adam Klein, Director of the Strauss Center at the University of Texas at Austin and former Chairman of the U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Adam discuss the case for forcing ByteDance to divest itself from TikTok or face a ban, why a forced divestment of TikTok passes constitutional muster, the case for treating a social media app like a radio station or cable network from a foreign-ownership ban perspective, and how to balance the American tradition of free speech and privacy in national security contexts.
467 | Annie Jacobsen: What the Threat of Nuclear War Means for the Era of Great Power Competition
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Annie Jacobsen, journalist and author of Nuclear War: A Scenario, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Annie discuss what experts predict the initial minutes after a nuclear launch and strike would look like, why the return of Cold War style relationships between great powers has brought the threat of nuclear conflict back to the forefront, the history of the U.S. military and Executive Branch's nuclear policies, and the need to ensure that adversary nations maintain lines of clarity and communication to prevent a disastrous miscalculation.
466 | Tim Carney: Are Falling Birth Rates the Result of a "Family Unfriendly" American Culture?
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Tim Carney, AEI Senior Fellow, Washington Examiner columnist, and author of Family Unfriendly: Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be, joins The Realignment. Tim and Marshall discuss the cultural, economic, political, and technological roots of America's falling birth rate, the gap between the number of children that families wish to have and the actual number they have, government's role in family formation and social policy, the role of class and region in parenting struggles, and the ways that individual parents can make navigate an increasingly difficult social environment.
Saagar & Marshall Supercast AMA & Discussion Preview: Candace Owens and the Daily Wire Split Up, Societal Damage from Smartphones, Underrated Presidents, and More...
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465 | Admiral James Stavridis and Elliot Ackerman: How AI, Biotech, and Geopolitics Will Define the 21st Century
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Former NATO Allied Supreme Commander Admiral James Stavridis and Elliot Ackerman, co-authors of 2054: A Novel and 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, return to The Realignment. In a follow-up to their fictional exploration of a military conflict between the U.S. and China in the 2030s, Stavridis and Ackerman explore how artificial intelligence, advances in biotechnology, fractious politics, and an evolving world order defined by nation-states and corporate power could shape the midpoint of the 21st century.
464 | Saleha Mohsin: How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order
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Saleha Mohsin, author of Paper Soldiers: How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order and Senior Washington Correspondent for Bloomberg News, joins The Realignment. Saleha and Marshall discuss the "strong dollar" consensus that emerged after the end of the Cold War, the resulting tradeoff between cheap consumer imports and the decimation of the manufacturing sector, how the Trump administration began to turn against the strong dollar consensus, the role the Treasury Department and the dollar play in perpetuating America's superpower status, and the increasing use of financial sanctions from the War on Terror to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
463 | Jim Sciutto: Has Great Power Conflict Set Us on the Path to the Next World War?
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Jim Sciutto, CNN Chief National Security Analyst and author of The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War, joins The Realignment. Jim and Marshall discuss why he believes we're living in a "1939 moment," why the "Cold War II" description understates the perilous geopolitical environment, lessons from the past two years of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, whether the United States can afford to handle multiple theaters of conflict at once, and the Biden vs. Trump foreign policy visions that will define the 2024 election.
462 | Frank H. McCourt, Jr.: How Decentralization Can Fight Big Tech & Reclaim the Internet's Promise
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Frank H. McCourt, Jr., founder of Project Liberty and author of Our Biggest Fight: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Frank discuss his belief that the internet as we know it is broken, why reimagining the internet's architecture could address growing social strife, the limits of the past decade's regulatory and status-quo market approach, and the promise a "third-generation internet" premised on digital property rights, autonomy, and ownership.
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In the latest edition of The Realignment's weekend Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Saagar and Marshall discuss their reaction to President Biden's State of the Union address, the takeaways of their reading binge on America's WWII leadership, Cal Newport's long-term vision for the Apple Vision Pro, and answer audience Q&A.
461 | Lucas Vaz: Navigating Decaying Infrastructure, Failing Institutions, and Geopolitical Threats with “Critical Software”
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Lucas Vaz, Founder and General Partner of Ravelin Capital, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Lucas discuss, Ravelin, his newly launched fund focused on "critical software." They discuss how successful critical software startups can address the looming challenges posed by decaying infrastructure, failing institutions, and geopolitics, his previous investments in companies like Apex and Hadrian, the generational opportunity to utilize software to address real-world problems, and the ins and outs of launching a new fund amid market uncertainty in the tech industry.
460 | Cal Newport: Why the Obsession with "Pseudo-Productivity" is Driving Knowledge Worker Revolts and Burnout
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Cal Newport, Georgetown University professor of computer science, founding member of the Center for Digital Ethics, and author of Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout, returns to The Realignment. Cal and Marshall discuss why "pseudo-productivity" is at the root of trends such as anti-work and quiet-quitting, why knowledge workers feel so burnt out despite the promise of post-COVID remote/hybrid work, the economics behind decades of evolving productivity fads, and where workplace norms and practices settled after COVID's disruption.
459 | Steve Coll: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Perils of Misreading Dictator's Ambitions
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Steve Coll, author of The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq and Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Steve discuss America's decades-long relationship with Saddam Hussein before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the CIA's intelligence failures that led to radical misinterpretations of Saddam's ambitions after the Gulf War, the Iraq War's significance 20 years later, and how past mistakes can inform today's assessments of Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin.
458 | Carlos Lozada: How to Read Politics & Politicians - What Books Say About Power, Personalities, and Washington
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Carlos Lozada, New York Times columnist and author of The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians & What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era, joins The Realignment. Carlos and Marshall discuss how people in power reveal themselves through their books and writings, the books and ideas that defined the Trump era (2004-2028?), his presidential biography recommendations, and the role the "Washington book" plays in the D.C. day-to-day.
457 | Jacob Heilbrunn: From Isolationism to America First - Does the American Right Have a Foreign Dictator Problem?
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Jacob Heilbrunn, Editor of The National Interest and author of America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators, returns to The Realignment. Jacob and Marshall discuss how the American right and left cozied up to foreign autocrats during the 20th century, why he believes the far-right's sympathies with autocrats are more relevant to today's policy debates than the left's sympathy with communist regimes, the differences between good faith skepticism of the U.S. foreign policy establishment and bad faith sympathy towards autocrats, and the parallels between modern day isolationists and the Bush-era Neoconservative movement.
456 | Alexander Ward: Biden's Internationalists, Trump's Nationalists, and the Fight for the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy
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Alexander Ward, Politico reporter and author of The Internationalists: The Fight to Restore American Foreign Policy After Trump, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Alexander discuss the Biden foreign policy team and agenda's origins in the wake of Trump's surprise 2016 election, whether foreign policy does (or doesn't) determine election outcomes, where the Biden foreign policy builds upon and distances itself from Trump's, the conflicts, events, and regions that shaped 2021-2024: China, Kabul, Ukraine, and why the Biden team's orientation is best described as "internationalist" versus Trump's "nationalists."
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455 | Sarah Scoles: What Does the Future Hold for America's Nuclear Arsenal?
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Sarah Scoles, author of Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Sarah discuss why nuclear weapons have regained their Cold War relevance, the modern nuclear weapons landscape, efforts to modernize America's vintage nuclear stockpile, and prospects for the nuclear status-quo, proliferation, and abolishment.
454 | Jeffrey Rosen: How the Education of the Founders Can Inspire the Next Generation of American Leaders
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Jeffrey Rosen, President & CEO of the National Constitution Center and author of The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Jeffrey discuss the Greek and Roman roots of early American political thought, why the founders focused on the pursuit of "virtue," why classical education has become partisan in the 21st century, and the role of education and self-development in the formation of leaders.
453 | Benn Steil: The Rise & Fall of Henry Wallace and the Inevitability of the Cold War
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Benn Steil, author of The World That Wasn't: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century and Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, joins The Realignment. Benn and Marshall discuss the origins of the Cold War and postwar U.S. foreign policy through the career of Henry Wallace, FDR's VP before Harry Truman. They discuss despite claims from critics of U.S. foreign policy like the director Oliver Stone, a Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union was inevitable.
452 | Jerry Hendrix: The Age of U.S. Naval Dominance Is Over
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Dr. Jerry Hendrix, Senior Fellow at the Sagamore Institute and author of To Provide and Maintain: Why Naval Primacy Is America's First Best Strategy, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Jerry discuss the conflict with Yemen's Houthi rebels and a potential conflict in Asia through a naval lens, the case for increasing the size of the U.S. Navy, what a proper mix of carriers, aircraft, and drones in the fleet would look like, and the need to revitalize the defense industrial base.
451 | Jonathan Blitzer: The Central American Origins of the Border Crisis
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Jonathan Blitzer, author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis, joins The Realignment. Jonathan and Marshall discuss the Central American origins of the border crisis, the origins and state of the asylum system, why the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations have struggled to "solve" the U.S.-Mexico border, and why we can expect future border showdowns for the foreseeable future.
450 | Nicholas Dirks: The Uses and Abuses of the University - Where Does Higher Ed Go from Here?
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Nicholas Dirks, former Chancelor of UC Berkeley, author of City of Intellect: The Uses and Abuses of the University, and President & CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences, joins The Realignment. Nicholas and Marshall discuss how his tenure at UC Berkely in 2010s presaged today's debates over free speech, tuition, and administrative bloat, increased societal distrust of higher education, and how the university system must evolve to meet the needs of a changing America.
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449 | Noah Smith: 2024's Stakes, Rebuilding the Arsenal of Democracy, and How to Get Industrial Policy Back on Track
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Noah Smith, author of the Noahpinion Substack, returns to The Realignment. Noah and Marshall discuss the likely Biden vs. Trump contest in November, the challenges facing the U.S.-led alliance system, the state of America's defense industrial base, the future of warfare through the lens of Ukraine, how democracies can deter autocratic aggression, and how to actually accomplish the industrial policy aims of the CHIPS Act and IRA.
448 | Benjamin Herold: Are America's Schools and Suburbs Unraveling?
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Benjamin Herold, education reporter and author of Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs, joins The Realignment. Benjamin and Marshall discuss the rise and fall of suburbia through the lens of five families, why many middle-class suburbs resemble a Ponzi scheme, debates between progressives and the liberal status quo over race, the role of school choice, and the state of the American dream.
447 | Nick Romeo: The Public Rejects the Status Quo. What is the Alternative?
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Nick Romeo, New Yorker writer and author of The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Nick discuss the outdated nature of many of the dogmas preached by modern economists, the growing number of new approaches aimed at reshaping economic outcomes, the importance of "political economy," and the opportunity to provide an alternative to a stagnating status quo.
446 | Tina Nguyen: How the Conservative Movement Went MAGA
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Tina Nguyen, a national correspondent for Puck and author of The MAGA Diaries, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Tina discuss the evolution of the conservative movement since President Obama's 2008 election, Tina's career in the right-wing ecosystem from Claremont to the Daily Caller, the state of digital media, and why alternate 2024 Republican alternatives aren't able to take over the MAGA mantle.
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In 2024's first edition of The Realignment's Recap and Ask Me Anything, Marshall and Saagar discuss their 2024 reading goals, the aftermath of the airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen, Taiwan's elections, the start of the 2024 GOP presidential campaign, November election predictions, and audience Q&A.
445 | Arun Gupta: Venture Meets Mission - How Mission-Driven Capitalism Can Solve Societal Challenges
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Arun Gupta, CEO of the NobleReach Foundation and co-author of Venture Meets Mission: Aligning People, Purpose, and Profit to Innovate and Transform Society, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Arun discuss the need for business, government, and society to collaborate in the face of massive societal challenges, what a mission-driven politics could look like, how working together across ecosystems can rebuild societal trust, and the generational opportunities at the intersection of technology and policy.
444 | Joshua Green: AOC, Bernie, & Warren - The Left Populist Struggle for a New American Politics
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Joshua Green, Bloomberg National Correspondent and author of The Rebels: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Struggle for a New American Politics & Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising, joins The Realignment. Joshua and Marshall discuss the past, present, and future of left populism through the careers of AOC, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren, why the perceived inadequacy of the response to the 2008 Financial Crisis fueled the left, and how the Biden administration has built on populist insights from the 2010s and COVID.
443 | Yaroslav Trofimov: Will 2024 Bring Victory, Defeat, or Stalemate in Ukraine?
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Yaroslav Trofimov, The Wall Street Journal's Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent and author of Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Yaroslav discuss his on the ground reporting since 2021, the history of the war from the start of the invasion to the present, why the 2023 counteroffensive failed to achieve its objectives, how to define victory or defeat, and how increasing aid skepticism in Western capitals could change the course of the war.
442 | Heather Jo Richman: The AUKUS Partnership and How the U.S., U.K., and Australia Can Invest in Dual-Use Technologies
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Heather Jo Richman, Founder and Chair of the U.S. Defense Investors Network, joins The Realignment. Heather and Marshall discuss her co-chairmanship of the newly-launched AUKUS Defense Investors Network, the AUKUS partnership between the U.S., U.K., and Australia, dual-use technologies such as cyber, AI, quantum computing, undersea capabilities, hypersonics, and EW/information sharing, and the role of the private sector when it comes to developing solutions to national security challenges.
FAI Presents | Jennifer Pahlka & Michael Kratsios : From Tech to Government and Back Again
Earlier this month Marshall moderated a conversation Jennifer Pahlka and Michael Kratsios on their experiences moving from tech to government and back again. Jennifer Pahlka, founder of Code for America, served as the Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States under President Obama, and as a member of the Defense Innovation Board under Presidents Obama and Trump. This year, she published Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better. Michael Kratsios, former Principal and Chief of Staff at Thiel Capital, served as Chief Technology Officer of the United States and Under Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon during the Trump administration. Today, he is Managing Director at Scale AI, where he leads corporate strategy and helps accelerate AI applications across industries. They discuss how tech can contribute to the national interest, opportunities for a tech "tour of duty" in government, and the sclerotic political environment in DC.
441 | Matthew George: Human-Machine Partnership and the Case for Autonomous Flight
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In the last episode of The Realignment's coverage of the Reagan Defense Forum, Matthew George, CEO of Merlin Labs, joins the show. Matthew and Marshall discuss the case for scaling the capabilities of autonomous flight, how the technology demonstrates the promise of human-machine partnership, the potential role of autonomous flight in an Indo-Pacific conflict, and the path to scaling autonomation in planes and beyond.
Recap and AMA - Free Edition | Marshall & Saagar on 2024 Optimism, Zelensky's Visit to DC, Biden vs. Trump, the Vibecession, and More...
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In this week's EOY edition of The Realignment's Recap and Ask Me Anything, Marshall and Saagar discuss their optimism moving into 2024, Biden and Trump's prospects for 2024, the "Vibecession" discourse, Zelensky's visit to DC, and more...
440 | Ryan Grim: What's Next for AOC and the Squad?
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Ryan Grim, the Intercept's Washington Bureau Chief, cohost of Counterpoints, and author of The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Ryan discuss the state of the Democratic Party, where the Squad and "the left" fit into the party's coalition, whether political revolution is a valid concept in American politics, and AOC's successes and failures since her surprise 2018 election.
439 | John Brennan: The AI Future We Were Promised Is Finally Here
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John Brennan, General Manager, Public Sector at Scale AI, joins The Realignment as part of the show's coverage of the 2023 Reagan National Defense Forum. John and Marshall discuss AI's impact on national security and warfare, how the U.S. can maintain its strategic advantage technological competition, and the sector's transition decade-long transition from science-fiction to present-day reality.
438 | Mike Slagh: The Case for Building American Civil-Military Fusion
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Earlier this month, the Foundation for American Innovation flew The Realignment out to the Reagan Defense Forum for a series of interviews covering the intersection of national security, technology, and foreign policy. For today's interview, Marshall spoke with Shift CEO and Defense Ventures Summit Founder Mike Slagh. They discuss the defense ecosystem, recap last month's Defense Venture Summit, and articulate the respective roles played by veterans, founders, technologists, civilians, venture capitalists, and policymakers when it comes to addressing defense challenges.
RE: Something Interesting | Johnny Smith on What Michael Jordan Meant for 1990s America, the Colorblind Racial Ideal, and Sports in Politics
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437 | Joe Lonsdale: The Role of Defense Technology in a New Era of Conflict
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Last weekend, the Foundation for American Innovation flew The Realignment out to the Reagan Defense Forum for a series of interviews covering the intersection of national security, technology, and foreign policy. Next up, Palantir co-founder and 8VC Managing Partner, Joe Lonsdale. Marshall and Joe discuss the evolution of the defense technology space from the War on Terror to the great power competition era of the 2020s, how technology can deter conflict, and his writing on how innovators can avoid becoming cogs in the legacy defense industrial complex.
436 | Shyam Sankar: From the "Last Supper" to the "First Breakfast" - How 30 Years of Consolidation & Financialization Broke the Defense Industry
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Last weekend, the Foundation for American Innovation flew The Realignment out to the Reagan Defense Forum for a series of interviews covering the intersection of national security, technology, and foreign policy. First up, Marshall interviewed Shyam Sankar, Palantir's Chief Technology Officer, about his perspective on the emerging defense tech ecosystem. They discuss why the post-Cold War "Last Supper" and peace dividend led to a financialized and over-consolidated military-industrial-complex, the current lack of a pre-WWII style mobilization of industry, and the need for "founders" in the mold of those who led the U.S. to victory in WWII and the Cold War.
435 | Tim Alberta: Will Trump's Alliance with Evangelicals Lead to Victory in 2024?
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Tim Alberta, staff writer for The Atlantic and author of The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Tim discuss the evolution of Trump's relationship from Evangelical Christians from 2015 to the present, the impact of a secularizing America on faith's role in politics, and the long-term effects of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
RE: Something Interesting | Jason Del Rey on the Future of Black Friday and Holiday Sales, In-Person vs. Online Commerce, and How Amazon & Walmart Are Redefining How We Shop
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Welcome to RE: Something Interesting, The Realignment's new Saturday podcast focused on more casual conversations about American culture and society with people who've released something worth diving into. Today's guest is the journalist Jason Del Rey, author of Winner Sells All: Amazon, Walmart, and the Battle for Our Wallets. Marshall and Jason discuss a listener's question about the state of Black Friday given the decline of in-person shopping, how the rivalry between Amazon and Walmart redefined the shopping experience, why both struggled with their in-person and online experiences, and why many of their efforts and startups they acquired during the 2010s floundered.
434 | Ben Mezrich: Will Elon Musk Make or Break X?
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Ben Mezrich, author of Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Ben discuss Elon Musk's prospects for turning X (formerly Twitter) into not only a fundamentally sound business, but also the biggest global platform for speech, whether a profit-driven company can ever achieve free speech goals, post-acquisition successes, failures, and missed opportunities, and whether the platform can ever build the requisite subscriber base to escape its dependence on advertisers.
433 | Adam Hammer: Funding and Scaling the Breakthrough Tech America Needs to Win the 21st Century
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Adam Hammer, President and Co-Founder of Roadrunner Venture Studios, a new venture studio based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Adam discuss why America fell behind its rivals when it comes to developing emerging deep/frontier technologies, opportunities in quantum science, space, energy, advanced manufacturing, and clean tech, New Mexico's status as a past and future cradle of innovation, and how the "venture studio" model of company formation and funding can address the deep tech blind spots missed by traditional venture capital.
432 | Jennifer Burns: Is the Milton Friedman Era Over?
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Jennifer Burns, Stanford history professor and author of Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative & Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Jennifer discuss Milton Friedman's legacy, his foundational role in shaping the bipartisan neoliberal approach that supplanted the New Deal in the 1970s and 1980s, whether the 2008 Financial Crisis, the trade policy fueled Trump revolt in 2016, and the COVID supply chain crunch has discredited his market-oriented worldview, and why the return of inflation politics could end up revitalizing his work for future generations.
Recap and AMA - Free Edition | Marshall on Thanksgiving, How to Ask Questions, the Death of Black Friday, and the Best Subscription Offerings
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In this Thanksgiving week edition of The Realignment's Recap and Ask Me Anything, Marshall discusses how to ask questions, the death of Black Friday, subscription recommendations for friends and family, and the show's Thanksgiving plans.
RE: Something Interesting | Doug Melville on Family & Ancestry through the Legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen and America's First Black Generals
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Welcome to RE: Something Interesting, The Realignment's new Saturday podcast focused on more casual conversations about American culture and society with people who've released something worth diving into. Today's guest is Doug Melville, author of Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America's First Black Generals. After a 2012 Hollywood production wrote out his family, Doug discovered his family's legacy in the segregated U.S. Army before and during World War II.
431 | Ganesh Sitaraman: Why Flying Is Miserable - And How to Fix It
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Ganesh Sitaraman, author of Why Flying Is Miserable: And How to Fix It, law professor, and the director of the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator for Political Economy and Regulation, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Ganesh discuss why the airline industry is always in crisis, why the worst aspects of air travel, the cancellations, delays, lost baggage, tiny seats, and poor service, stem from policy choices, whether airline deregulation in the 1970s succeeded in its goals, and what a sustainable path forward for the industry looks like.
RE: Something Interesting | Garrett M. Graff on What the Government Really Knows About UFOs, UAPs, and the Case for Extraterrestrial Life
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430 | Ryan Craig: How Apprenticeships Will Create a Stronger and Fairer America
Ryan Craig, author of Apprentice Nation: How the Earn and Learn Alternative to Higher Education Will Create a Stronger and Fairer America and a Managing Director at Achieve Partners, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Ryan discuss America's recent abandonment of the "college for all" approach, why bipartisan agreement on the importance of apprenticeships hasn't translated into their widespread availability, which countries have apprenticeship models worth following, and why the "earn and learn" approach is an effective pathway to career success and the American dream.
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429 | John Gray: How Post-Liberal Thought Can Unpack the Chaotic and Terrifying 2020s
John Gray, author of The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism, joins The Realignment. Marshall and John discuss why he believes Hobbesian political realism is the only way of understanding the world of the 2020s, how faith in a liberal, well managed future peaked in the 1990s, why history could never truly "end," and how current events from Ukraine, Gaza, and the Pacific reflect could use a more self-aware, realistic, and disabused ethical approach.
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428 | Tim Marshall: The Astropolitics Era - The U.S., China, Russia, Elon Musk, and the New Space Race
Tim Marshall, geopolitics expert and author of The Future of Geography: How the Competition in Space Will Change Our World, returns to The Realignment. Tim and Marshall discuss how nation-states like the U.S., China, and Russia are navigating the new space race, where private companies such as Elon Musk's SpaceX will run-up against state power and earthbound conflict, the Starlink service's impact on the ground and at sea in Ukraine, and the promise of a space-driven future for humanity.
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Recap and Audience AMA - Free Edition: Marshall & Saagar on 2024 Predictions, Critiquing Gen Z, Why All-In Works, and More...
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RE: Something Interesting | Max Marshall on a Fraternity Crime Bust, Xanax Rings, and Coming of Age on Campus in the 2010s
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Welcome to RE: Something Interesting, The Realignment's new Saturday podcast focus on more casual conversations about American culture and society with people who've written, recorded, or thought about something worth diving into. Today's guest is Max Marshall, author of Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story. Marshall and Max discuss the positives and negatives of fraternities, the rise and fall of the "bro" during aughts and 2010s, the rise of Xanax, and what it was like to go to college during a decade of social change.
427 | John B. Judis & Ruy Teixeira: Where Did the Democrats Go Wrong?
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John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira, authors of Where Have All the Democrats Gone?: The Soul of the Party in the Age of Extremes and The Emerging Democratic Majority, join The Realignment. Marshall, John, and Ruy discuss why the believe the modern Democratic Party has lost its way, why the party alienates the working class and rural voters it needs to win durable majorities, the forces that derailed their emerging Democratic majority thesis, and the President Joe Biden's 2024 prospects.
426 | Moshik Temkin: The Art of Leadership in an Era of Crisis and Generational Change
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Moshik Temkin, professor and author of Warriors, Rebels, and Saints: The Art of Leadership from Machiavelli to Malcolm X, joins The Realignment. In this conversation, Marshall and Moshik discuss the central question of his courses: do leaders make history or does history make leaders? They also discuss the unique leadership challenges posed by the foreign and domestic crises of the early 21st century, why "leaderless," decentralized movements across the political spectrum have failed to achieve their goals, how generational cohorts approach questions of hierarchy and activism differently, and the implications of America's coming [post-Baby Boomer and Silent Generation leadership transition.
425 | Patrick Ruffini: Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP
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Patrick Ruffini, author of Party of the People: Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP and cofounder of Echelon Insights, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Patrick discuss how Trump assembled the most diverse Republican presidential coalition in history in 2020, how and why the GOP became the party of non-college educated workers, what the potential GOP populist coalition could look like, and how these trends could realign the American political system over the next few decades.
424 | David Adler & Bill Bonvillian: America's Advanced Manufacturing Problem - and How to Fix It
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David Adler and William B. Bonvillian, authors of America’s Advanced Manufacturing Problem—and How to Fix It, published in American Affairs, join The Realignment. Marshall, David, and William discuss how the U.S. lost its leadership in global manufacturing, the impact of federal legislation like the CHIPS Act, and why the key to a successful industrial policy effort lies in redesigning the country's innovation system.
423 | Gilman Louie: How America Can Win the Frontier Technology Renaissance
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Gilman Louie, CEO and co-founder of America's Frontier Fund, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Gilman discuss AFF's work investing in frontier technologies such as advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence, and energy, how the U.S. can outcompete and out-innovate rivals such as China, building a new playbook for deep tech founders, investors, and scientists, and how society can balance the promise and peril of emerging technologies.
422 | David M. Herszenhorn: Alexey Navalny, the Dissident of Putin's Russia - Does the Dream of a Democratic Russia Live On?
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David M. Herszenhorn, Russia, Ukraine, and East Europe Editor of the Washington Post and author of The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner, joins The Realignment. Marshall and David discuss how Alexey Navalny became Russian President Vladimir Putin's most formidable rival, the tradition of the "dissident" in Russian and Soviet history, what an alternative vision for a democratic Russia could look like, and whether a democratic Russia with a leader in the style of Navalny would have a positive relationship with the West and its former Soviet neighbors?
Recap and Audience AMA - Free Edition | Marshall & Saagar on the Launch of the Invasion of Gaza
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In this week's edition of The Realignment's new recap and audience Q&A/AMA show, Marshall and Saagar's discuss the start of Israel's invasion of Gaza, the implications for the U.S., and more. Subscribers to The Realignment's Supercast can access the full version of this episode.
421 | Stuart A. Reid: The Lumumba Plot - The Secret History of the CIA, a Cold War Assassination, and Decolonization
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420 | Nikhil Goyal: Child Poverty Doubled Last Year - What Does that Mean for Our Safety Net?
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Nikhil Goyal, former Senior Policy for Education and Children for Senator Bernie Sanders and author of Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Nikhil discuss why the child poverty rate experienced its greatest single-year increase on record last year, the role of COVID-era governmental support in reducing the poverty rate, his multi-year ethnographic study of poor children in Philadelphia, and his ultimate belief that America's poverty status-quo is a policy choice.
419 | Melissa Kearney: Two-Parent Privilege - The Decline of Marriage and the Fracturing of America
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Melissa Kearney, Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, Director of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group, and author of The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Melissa discuss how declining marriage rates are driving many of the country’s biggest economic problems, why there is a growing marriage-gap between college-educated and non-college-educated Americans, the origins of the marriage decline, who shouldn't get married, and whether governmental support can alleviate the disadvantages of growing up in a single-parent household.
418 | Bethany McLean: How COVID Exposed a Hollowed-Out and Sickly America
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Bethany McLean, co-author of The Big Fail: and co-host of the Capitalisn't podcast, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Bethany discuss how her exploration of COVID America fits into the story of her previous exposés, The Smartest Guys in the Room and All the Devils Are Here, the impact of snarled supply chains, school closures, and poorly evaluated mask mandates, and why she believes capitalism has jumped the rails in the 21st century.
417 | Seth D. Kaplan: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time
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Seth D. Kaplan, fragile states expert and author of Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Seth discuss how the roots of the issues plaguing America: rising crime, school violence, family disintegration, addiction, alienation, and despair lie in our failing neighborhood structures, why wealthier and urban neighborhoods aren't immune from decline, and how revitalizing local institutions and our social ties can help repair the country.
416 | Rikki Schlott: The Cancel Culture Debate After the Hamas Massacre
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Rikki Schlott, co-author (with Greg Lukianoff) of The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust, Destroys Institutions, and Threatens Us All—but There Is a Solution, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Rikki discuss the origins of cancel culture, why free speech ideals are the best way to run American institutions, from social media platforms to universities, and whether the fallout from student and faculty protests against Israel constitute "cancel culture."
Weekly Recap and Audience AMA - Free Edition | Marshall & Saagar on Gaza, Hamas, and Israel
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In the premiere episode The Realignment's new week recap and audience Q&A/AMA show, Marshall and Saagar's discuss Israel, Gaza, Hamas, and the broader state of the war.
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415 | James Pethokoukis: Conservative Futurism & Up Wing Politics - Building the Sci-Fi Future We We're Promised
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James Pethokoukis, AEI Senior Fellow and author of The Conservative Futurist: How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised, joins The Realignment. Marshall and James discuss his why he describes post-1970s America as suffering from the "Great Downshift," a sharp decline in technological progress, economic stagnation, and downsized dreams, why we should be optimistic about the future, despite fears of a looming technopocalypse, the role of developments in AI, space exploration, and energy abundance, the agenda for recovering the expansively futuristic spirit of the 1950s and 1960s, and why conservative futurism isn't an oxymoron.
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414 | Oren Cass: Is the GOP's Pro-Worker Economic Policy Realignment Underway?
Survey Results and Executive Brief | The New Conservative Voter - American Compass
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Oren Cass, Executive Director and founder of American Compass, returns to The Realignment. In this episode, Marshall and Oren unpack the findings of "The New Conservative Voter," an American Compass/YouGov survey of 1,000 GOP voters, focused on economic policy. They discuss Oren's belief that "a realignment that focuses the Republican Party on pro-worker economic policy is well underway," why GOP voters continue to prioritize socio-cultural issues over economic issues, how a legitimately pro-worker GOP could transform American politics, and where voters stand on the "New Right" vs "Old Right" debates over economic policy.
413 | Nabila Ramdani: Fixing France - How to Save a Broken Republic
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Nabila Ramdani, journalist and author of Fixing France: How to Save a Broken Republic, joins The Realignment. Nabila and Marshall discuss the challenges and problems facing the French Fifth Republic, why she believes Emmanuel Macron's presidency trends towards failure, France's foreign policy in former colonial Africa and Ukraine, and why it may be time for a Sixth Republic premised on a reconception of the country's democratic practices at the presidential and parliamentary levels.
412 | Yonah Jeremy Bob: Iran's Nuclear Program, the Abraham Accords, and the New Middle East
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Yonah Jeremy Bob, co-author of Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Yonah discuss the history of Israel's efforts to sabotage the Iranian nuclear program, the 2015 JCPOA nuclear agreement, the normalization of relations between Israel and Arab states following the Abraham Accords of 2020, where the Israeli-Palestinian conflict fits into the story of the modern Middle East, and the regional realignment against Iran.
411 | Vincent Bevins: Why Didn't a Decade of Global Mass Protests Lead to Revolutionary Change?
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Vincent Bevins, author of If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution and The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade & the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Vincent discuss how, from 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any point in human history, the factors that drove protests in countries like Brazil, Egypt, Tunisia, Turkey, Hong Kong, and Ukraine, the short-term success and long-term checkered track-record of mass protests, and why he believes the conventional wisdom on revolutionary change is gravely misguided.
410 | Thomas P.M. Barnett: How Globalization, North-South Migration, Climate Change, and Demographic Collapse Will Define America's New Map
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Thomas P.M. Barnett, author of America's New Map: Restoring Our Global Leadership in an Era of Climate Change and Demographic Collapse and the Pentagon's New Map trilogy, joins The Realignment. Thomas and Marshall discuss why the world is shifting from a 20th century East-West orientation to a North-South orientation in the 21st century, the impact of demographic collapse across the industrialized world, how America can reconcile itself with the fact that it no longer controls globalization's path, and why the superpower competition to deliver growth and security to the rising global middle class will define the rest of the century.
409 | Yascha Mounk: The Identity Trap - Why New Group Identity & Social Justice Ideas Failed to Transform America
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Yascha Mounk, author of The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time, returns to The Realignment. Yascha and Marshall discuss how during the 2010s, postmodernism, postcolonialism, and critical race theory forged what he calls the "identity synthesis," why new conceptions of identity and social justice ultimately became counterproductive, and his belief that universal, humanist values are the best path towards true equality.
408 | Mathias Döpfner: Escaping the Trade Trap - How to Stop Doing Business with Dictators
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Mathias Döpfner, Chairman & CEO of Axel Springer SE, the biggest digital publisher in Europe and owner of U.S. media brands Insider, Morning Brew, and Politico, joins The Realignment. Mathias is the author of a new book: The Trade Trap: How to Stop Doing Business with Dictators. Marshall and Mathias discuss his proposal for a new trade regime based upon a values-based alliance of democracies, the cost of doing business with dictators, Germany's revamped post-Ukraine invasion foreign policy, and how encounters with figures from Vladimir Putin to Jack Ma shaped the book's perspective.
407 | Cenk Uygur: The Future of the Progressive Movement in Joe Biden's (or Donald Trump's) America
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Cenk Uygur, host and founder of The Young Turks, co-founder of the Justice Democrats PAC, and author of Justice Is Coming: How Progressives Are Going to Take Over the Country and America Is Going to Love It, joins The Realignment. Cenk and Marshall discuss and debate the degree to which the mainstream media influences the electoral of Democratic primary voters, the degree to which pay-for-play corruption influences the beliefs of Representatives and Senators, President Biden's re-election chances, and the past, present, and future of the progressive movement in America.
406 | Zeke Faux: Inside Sam Bankman-Fried & Crypto's Rise and Fall
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Zeke Faux, investigative reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek, New America National Fellow, and author of Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall, joins The Realignment. Zeke and Marshall discuss how Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) conned his way into the halls of power in Washington, DC, why crypto failed to develop a clear use case for consumers during the bull run, the quest for community, the perils of financialization, and his time with everything from the Bored Ape Yacht Club to Bitcoin Beach in El Salvador.
405 | Loren Grush: The Artemis Moon Mission & NASA's Past, Present, and Future
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Loren Grush, Space Reporter for Bloomberg and author of The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts, joins The Realignment. Loren and Marshall discuss the Artemis program, NASA's manned return to the Moon, aimed at paving the way for a mission to Mars, the successes and failures of the Space Shuttle program, the role of NASA amidst the rise of the commercial space industry, and the history of how women entered NASA's astronaut ranks after the end of the Apollo program in the 1970s.
404 | Coco Krumme: The False Promise of Optimization - Plus, Saagar & Marshall on the Biden Presidency
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403 | Kevin Vallier: Integralism & the Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism
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Kevin Vallier, author of All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Kevin discuss Catholic integralism and other new and radical religious alternatives to liberal democracy, why the 20th century didn't spell the end of faith-infused political movements, the revival of religious politics in Russia, India, Poland, and Turkey, and how a religiously infused politics would operate in an increasingly secular America.
402 | Jonathan Taplin: Reality vs. Dystopia - The Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, & Crypto
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Jonathan Taplin, author of The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires Are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto and The Magic Years: Scenes from a Rock-and-Roll Life, joins The Realignment. Marshall and discuss and debate whether the Metaverse, Crypto, and the mission to Mars are worthy projects, how politics is downstream from culture and technology, and his time managing Bob Dylan's tours in the 60s, producing with Martin Scorsese in the 70s, and work on Wall Street and the tech industry during the 80s and 90s.
401 | Franklin Foer: Inside the Biden White House & the Struggle for America's Future
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Franklin Foer, author of The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future, joins The Realignment. Franklin and Marshall discuss his insider-driven portrait of the first two years of the Biden presidency, why Biden is best understood as the "last politician," why the Biden administration continued Trump's hawkish turn against China, the highs and lows of 2021-22, and how Biden's age and the public's assessment of his ability to handle the rigors of the presidency will be one of the defining issues of 2024.
400 | Mauro F. Guillén: The Megatrends Creating a Post-Generational America
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Mauro F. Guillén, Wharton School professor and author of The Perennials: The Megatrends Creating a Postgenerational Society, joins The Realignment. Mauro and Marshall discuss his argument that generational categories like Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z are outmoded, the benefits of liberating individuals from the constraints of the sequential model of life, the differences between a society defined by generational identity and one oriented around "perennials," and how the "megatrends" of increasing longevity and technological disruption are transforming our lives.
399 | Robert D. Kaplan: America Between Empire & Anarchy in the Greater Middle East
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Robert D. Kaplan, author of The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China and The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power, joins The Realignment. Robert and Marshall discuss his conceptualization of the "Greater Middle East," stretching from the Mediterranean to China, the case for "realism" when approaching the challenges and opportunities of the region, the tension between stability and anarchy, and the best and worst cases for foreign policy over the next decade. Robert also covers his previous work on the benefits of viewing recent geopolitical crises through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy.
398 | Kathryn Cramer Brownell: The Rise and Fall of the Cable News Era
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Kathryn Cramer Brownell, author of 24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News, joins The Realignment. Kathryn and Marshall discuss how the modern cable news ecosystem grew out of government policies in the 1970s, the consequences of the continued decentralization of news and information from the heyday of ABC, CBS, and NBC, the collapse of the cable business model, cable's role in fragmenting post-war America, and how previous debates over technological innovation and consumer choice can inform the next evolution of the media industry.
397 | Jerry Dunleavy & James Hasson: Two Years After the Fall of Kabul - Was the Chaotic Withdrawal Inevitable?
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Podcast Premiere | Arsenal of Democracy: America Is Not in Decline, but It Needs Help (feat. Walter Russell Mead)
With our first episode, host Marshall Kosloff is joined by Walter Russell Mead to review what an American "Arsenal of Democracy" really means and what it looks like. Walter and Marshall survey world affairs, from the War in Ukraine to the China challenge, to prescribe what American leadership can do for a shifting world order with increasingly influential great power rivals. Walter and Marshall then return to the home front, and discuss what it would take domestically to build an Arsenal of Democracy for the 21st century.
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396 | Sohrab Ahmari: Post-Liberalism and the Threat of Private Tyranny
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Sohrab's Newsweek Op-Ed Excerpt | I Was Wrong: The GOP Will Never Be the Party of the Working Class
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Sohrab Ahmari, author of Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty--And What to Do about It and Founder and Editor of Compact Magazine, joins The Realignment. Sohrab and Marshall discuss the increasing role that private tyranny plays in American life, his ideological journey towards what he calls "pro-life New Dealer," why the right is often elevates combating "wokeness" over substantive critiques of private power, and how labor increased representation and worker bargaining power offers a way out of the status-quo.
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395 | David Lipsky: Climate Change, the Culture Wars, and the Path to Denial
David Lipsky, author of The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial, joins The Realignment. David and Marshall discuss how climate change evolved from a policy oriented scientific issue to casualty of the culture wars, climate policy roads not taken over the past 70 years, the line between science denial and legitimate policy debate, the American political system's ability to "solve" climate change in the first place, and revisit Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point, David's chronicle of the USMA during the 9/11 era.
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394 | Ben Ansell: Why Politics Fails
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Ben Ansell, author of Why Politics Fails and Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, joins The Realignment. Ben and Marshall discuss why the initial promise of the twenty-first century stagnated into dysfunction and stasis, the role self-interest plays in limiting societies from achieving collective goals in the categories of democracy, equality, solidarity, security, and prosperity, and how and why the political process succeeded during previous eras.
393 | John Lovell: Confronting the Crisis Facing America's Men and Boys
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Opinion | Christine Emba: Men are lost. Here’s a map out of the wilderness. - The Washington Post
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392 | Derek Leebaert: FDR's "Unlikely Heroes" and America's Triumph Over the Great Depression and WWII
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Derek Leebaert, author of Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made and Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Derek discuss the role FDR's lieutenants (Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes, Frances Perkins, and Henry Wallace) played in shepherding the United States through the Great Depression and World War II, how the structure of the federal bureaucracy and Executive Branch has shifted since FDR's presidency, and how the lessons of the 1930s and 1940s apply to today's challenges.
391 | Larry Kramer: America After Neoliberalism
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Larry Kramer, President of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, joins The Realignment. Larry and Marshall discuss why the Neoliberal approach is unable to address the economic challenges of the 2020s, what a post-Neoliberal paradigm could look like, where the political right and left can and cannot find common ground, shifting definitions of capitalism, and how a society's interpretation of what constitutes "common sense" when it comes to the economy shifts over time.
390 | Amy Finkelstein: How to Tear Down the Broken Healthcare System
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Amy Finkelstein, MIT economist, MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, and co-author of We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care, joins The Realignment. Amy and Marshall discuss why we need to stop applying Band-Aids to a broken system and instead pursue wholesale reform, the need to distinguish between (and address separately) the problems of 30 million Americans without health insurance and spiraling healthcare costs, moving beyond slogans like "Medicare for All," and what it would take to offer "basic" healthcare coverage to the entire country.
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389 | Megan Reiss: The New Era of Geopolitical Risk - How AI Can Fix Supply Chains
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Dr. Megan Reiss, Founder & CEO of SolidIntel Inc. and former National Security Policy Advisor for Senator Mitt Romney, joins The Realignment. Megan and Marshall discuss how the private sector's ability to confront post-COVID, U.S.-China trade wars, and Ukraine-related geopolitical risks, her careers in academia, Capitol Hill, and the tech industry, and how advancements in artificial intelligence can untangle complicated supply chains.
388 | Neil Howe: The Fourth Turning Is Here - How America's Crisis Will End
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Neil Howe, author of The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us About How and When This Crisis Will End, joins The Realignment. Neil and Marshall discuss his follow up to The Fourth Turning, his 1997 bestseller that predicted America's current era of political turmoil and international disorder, how and why the crisis will resolve over the next decade, the impact of generational turnover on American history, and why today's challenges rhyme with those of the 1930s-1940s.
387 | Richard Kahlenberg: Class-Based Solutions to America's Housing and Education Problems
Richard D. Kahlenberg, author of Excluded: How Snob Zoning, Nimbyism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See, joins The Realignment. Richard and Marshall discuss whether race or class is a bigger obstacle to success in America, how RFK's cross-racial coalition inspired Richard's work, how exclusionary zoning and NIMBYism lie at the heart of the housing crisis, and his advocacy for class-based affirmative action after the Supreme Court's abolishment of race-based affirmative action.
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386 | Michael R. Gordon: The U.S. Isn't Ready for Great Power Conflict - And the Iraq War(s) That Led It There
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Michael R. Gordon, National Security Correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and author of Degrade and Destroy: The Inside Story of the War Against the Islamic State, from Barack Obama to Donald Trump, joins The Realignment. Michael and Marshall discuss how current era of Great Power conflict differs from the War on Terror, how the Pentagon is transforming the U.S. military to meet the moment, the legacy of America's involvement in Iraq from the Gulf War to the fall of ISIS in 2019, and why the U.S. campaign against ISIS, with its focus on enabling local allies on the ground offers a strategic model for future conflicts.
385 | Wesley Lowery: Backlash Politics from Obama 2008 to the Summer of 2020 and Beyond
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Wesley Lowery, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and author of American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Wesley discuss the rise and impact of the Black Lives Matter movement, the benefits and limits of "pragmatism," how the U.S. is (and isn't) fulfilling the promise of multiracial democracy, policing after "Defund," and where the reparations debate stands.
384 | Peter Turchin: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration
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Peter Turchin, author of End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration, joins The Realignment. Peter and Marshall discuss his 2010 prediction that the U.S. would experience significant political turmoil in 2020, the factors that drove 2010-2020s political conflict, why the elite-overproduction phenomenon is one of the strongest determinants of societal health, and the historical precedents of nations remaining unified in the face of the above challenges.
383 | Sean A. Mirski: How the USA's Rise to Regional Hegemony Rhymes with China's
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Sean A. Mirski, author of We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Sean discuss America's rise to regional hegemony after the Civil War, the anxieties and ambitions that shaped the country's foreign policy aims in the age of European imperialism, the cost of foreign interventions in the Western Hemisphere, and how the aims and means of China's regional ambitions will fundamentally shape the 21st century.
382 | Robert Lighthizer: Building the New Pro-Worker Trade Consensus
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Robert Lighthizer, former U.S. Trade Representative from 2017-2021 and author of No Trade Is Free: Changing Course, Taking on China, and Helping America's Workers, joins The Realignment. Robert and Marshall discuss his experience negotiating trade deals with Japan and China in the Reagan and Trump administrations, why the working-class should be at the center of trade policy, the origins of the 2023 manufacturing boom, and the degree to which geopolitical concerns should shape the trade agenda.
Vacation Programming Note | We'll Be Back Next Week
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After multiple rescheduled guests and a corrupted Ask Me Anything episode recording, team Realignment has taken the hint and the will be back on its regular schedule next week.
#381 | Michael G. Vickers: Intel, Special, Ops, & Strategy from the CIA's War in Afghanistan to Ukraine
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Michael G. Vickers, author of By All Means Available: Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations, and Strategy and former Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, joins The Realignment. Michael and Marshall discuss his role in the CIA's secret war against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s, his time in the Army's Special Forces after the Vietnam War, where the War on Terror went right and wrong, and how his experience as an operator, intelligence officer, and DoD official across four decades informs his view of how the U.S. should approach national security challenges of the 2020s.
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380 | Senator Marco Rubio: How America Can Recover from "Decades of Decadence"
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Senator Marco Rubio, author of Decades of Decadence: How Our Spoiled Elites Blew America's Inheritance of Liberty, Security, and Prosperity, returns to The Realignment. Senator Rubio discusses his critique of America's post-Cold War domestic and foreign policies, the threat of national decline, lessons from his 2016 presidential campaign, and the prospects for bipartisanship in Washington, DC.
379 | Jennifer Pahlka: How Government Limped into the Digital Age
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Jennifer Pahlka, author of Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better and former U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer, joins The Realignment. Jennifer and Marshall discuss industrial-era culture limits government's ability to handle the challenges of the 2020s, the gap between the promise of the digital age and actual results, why the answer isn't more money or more technology, and the lessons from her time addressing governmental failure at the local, state, and federal levels.
378 | Joshua Zeitz: What President Lincoln's Faith Means for a Secularizing America
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Joshua Zeitz, author of Lincoln's God: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation, joins The Realignment as part of the show's expanded American history coverage. Joshua and Marshall discuss President Abraham Lincoln's religious beliefs in the context of the lead up to the Civil War and the Second Great Awakening, how the conversation around a president's religious beliefs has shifted since the heights of President George W. Bush's Evangelical faith in the 2000s, and Joshua's broader work on the presidency of LBJ.
377 | Jonathan D.T. Ward: The 2020s - The Decisive Decade for the U.S. & China
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Jonathan D.T. Ward, author of The Decisive Decade: American Grand Strategy for Triumph Over China and China's Vision of Victory, joins The Realignment. Jonathan and Marshall discuss why the 2020s decade is pivotal for the U.S.-China competition for the 21st century, why American strategists were able to ignore questions of economic power during Cold War I, but cannot do so today, and what the economic, military, diplomatic, and intellectual components of a comprehensive American grand strategy look like.
376 | Ben Terris: The Winners and Losers of DC's Big Break After Trump
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Ben Terris, Washington Post writer and author of The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, & True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind, joins The Realignment. Ben and Marshall discuss how much the Trump years did (and didn't change Washington, how the city itself works from the perspectives of pollsters, big donors, lobbyists, kingmakers, and lobbyists, and whose gambles about what the "new normal" looks like paid off.
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375 | Craig Nelson: How America Became the "Arsenal of Democracy" and the Lessons for Today
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Craig Nelson, author of V is for Victory: Franklin Roosevelt’s American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II, joins The Realignment. Craig and Marshall discuss the "miracle" of America's manufacturing potential, FDR's leadership before and during World War II, how the combination of the New Deal and American industrial strength birthed 20th century middle-class prosperity, extraordinary scientific and technological achievements, and how the lessons from the period apply to today's defense manufacturing challenges.
374 | Elliot Ackerman: How a Divided America Grapples its Past, Present, and Future
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Elliot Ackerman, author of Halcyon, The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan, and 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, returns to The Realignment. Elliot and Marshall discuss his alternate history of America in the 2000s, how revisiting the past challenges our assumptions about our national character, conflict versus character, and his broader writing foreign policy reporting as the country faces new challenges and conflicts.
373 | Noam Bardin: Building the Future of News & Social in a Post-Twitter World
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Noam Bardin, founder and CEO of Post, joins The Realignment. Noam and Marshall discuss his vision for social media in a post-Twitter world, why micropayments could provide a sustainable business model for media organizations and creators, how 2020s social media differs from its 2000s-2010s heyday, and what it means for the internet to decentralize away from legacy platforms.
372 | CFPB Director Rohit Chopra: Reviving America's Anti-Monopoly Tradition
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Rohit Chopra, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and former FTC Commissioner, joins The Realignment. Director Chopra and Marshall discuss the history of America's anti-monopolist tradition, how new FTC Commissioners ended decades of governmental inaction in 2018, the need to aggressively enforce laws on the books, how anti-monopoly policy can create strange ideological alliances, and the lessons from the recent failures of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic.
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371 | Evan Thomas: The Atomic Bomb's Legacy in a Disordered World
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Evan Thomas, author of Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II, joins The Realignment. Evan and Marshall discuss and assess the decision to use atomic bombs against Imperial Japan in 1945, how at its best, American foreign policy balances realism and idealism, why we shouldn't assume the "norm" against the use of nuclear weapons will hold in perpetuity, and how to reduce the danger of nuclear escalation in the Asia-Pacific and Eastern Europe.
370 | Timothy B. Lee: Why Artificial Intelligence Won't Cause Mass Unemployment
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369 | Steve Drummond: How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win WWII
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Steve Drummond, NPR journalist and author of The Watchdog: How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War Two, joins The Realignment as part of the show's expanded history coverage. Steve and Marshall discuss how the Truman committee uprooted corruption while promoting readiness and efficacy, why previous wartime committee efforts during the Civil War and WWI failed, the role of Congress in foreign policy and national security, and then how Senator Truman's leadership model can inform today's oversight efforts.
368 | Thom Shanker: Welcome to the Age of Danger - New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats
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Thom Shanker, Director of the Project for Media and National Security, co-author (with Andrew Hoehn) of Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats, and a former National Security/Foreign Policy Editor at the New York Times, joins The Realignment. Thom and Marshall discuss the major threats to U.S. national security in the 2020s and beyond, what distinguishes the "Age of Danger" from the War on Terror, the opportunities and perils facing defense reformers, and whether the Pentagon's trillion dollar-plus budget is well spent.
367 | Ashlee Vance: The Misfits and Geniuses Winning the New Space Race
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Ashlee Vance, author of When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach and Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, joins The Realignment. Ashlee and Marshall discuss the geopolitics of the new space race, the cheap and fast rocket and satellite launch revolution, how the "wild west" of lower orbit differs from the business billionaire-led space tourism, and how the new business of space could transform life on Earth.
Supercast Ask Me Anything Teaser | Why Rome Matters, Ben Smith Reaction, What Happened to Andrew Yang?, RFK Jr's Presidential Campaign, Tucker 2024?, and the Threat of Nihilism
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366 | Ben Smith: Genius, Rivalry, Delusion, and the Collapse of BuzzFeed, HuffPost, Vice, and the Digital Media Era
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Ben Smith, author of Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral and Editor in Chief of Semafor, joins The Realignment. Ben, Saagar, and Marshall discuss the end of the social media-fueled digital media, the end of BuzzFeed News and the collapse of Vice, and why the next era of online journalism won't be anything like the 2010s.
365 | Michael Lind: How the Suppression of Wages is Destroying America
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Michael Lind, author of Hell to Pay: How the Suppression of Wages is Destroying America and The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite, joins The Realignment. Michael and Marshall discuss the systemic myths that keep too many employees underpaid and overworked, how a post-1980s bipartisan consensus crushed worker power, and why the roots of the demographic, social, identity, and political crises facing America lie in wage stagnation.
364 | Rebecca Grant: Why Birth, Motherhood, and Pregnancy Are at the Center of American Politics
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Rebecca Grant, author of Birth: Three Mothers, Nine Months, and Pregnancy in America, joins The Realignment. Rebecca and Marshall discuss her time profiling mothers in Portland, Oregon from pregnancy to birth, America's high maternal mortality rate, why hospital-based births have gotten so expensive compared to other industrialized countries, and alternative approaches to birth and pregnancy outside the hospital system.
363 | Peter Frankopan: How a Transforming Earth & a Rising Asia Will Define the 21st Century
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Peter Frankopan, Professor of Global History at Oxford University and author of The Earth Transformed: An Untold History, The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World, and The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, joins The Realignment. Peter and Marshall discuss how environmental shifts shape the rise and fall of nations, rising tensions between West and East from Ukraine to Taiwan, and the defining geopolitical impact of Asia's.
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#362 | Steven Simon: The Rise and Fall of America's Grand Delusion in the Middle East
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Steven Simon, author of Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East, joins The Realignment to discuss America's role in the Middle East after the end of the War on Terror, what went wrong over 40 years of intervention, focusing on pursuing national interests over hubristic ambition, and the lessons for future policymakers from his time on the National Security Council.
#361 | Emmet Penney: Roadblocks to a Nuclear Renaissance, the Broken Energy Grid, and the Decarbonization Challenge
Emmet Penney, Editor-in-Chief of Grid Brief and host of the Nuclear Barbarians podcast, joins The Realignment to discuss Germany's decision to shut down its remaining nuclear reactors, why the U.S. hasn't vastly expanded its nuclear power capacity over the past year, the 1970s roots of the country's broken energy grid, decarbonization tradeoffs, and the lack of a broad pro-nuclear political coalition.
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In celebration of The Realignment's last year on Supercast, Marshall recorded a bonus Supercast episode featuring his favorite questions of the year.
#360 | Renu Mukherjee: The End of Affirmative Action and the Future of Higher Education
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Renu Mukherjee, a Paulson Policy Analyst at the Manhattan Institute, joins The Realignment to discuss the implications of the Supreme Court's likely decision to overturn the use of affirmative action in college admissions. Renu and Marshall cover possible race-neutral alternatives to the status quo, the balance between pure meritocracy and the advantage of a diverse (in all respects) student body, and the legal specifics of the Harvard University case driving the debate. They also explore the issues driving a possible realignment of Asian-American voters, at least at the local and city level.
#359 | Jacob Helberg: The Geopolitics of the Great U.S.-China Tech Decoupling
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Jacob Helberg, member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and author of The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power, joins The Realignment. Jacob discusses the broader implications of the TikTok ban debate, why the Grindr CFIUS forced sale precedent wouldn't actually address national security concerns related to TikTok, why U.S. investors shouldn't fund China's tech industry, especially in critical areas like AI, and the proper framework for approaching technological competition issues moving forward.
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In today's bonus episode for Supercast subscribers, Saagar and Marshall discuss the election results from Wisconsin and Chicago, Trump's court appearance, their guest spots on Flagrant & Krystal Kyle and Friends, their upcoming summer plans, and America's shifting demographics and geography.
358 | Henry Olsen: Trump vs. DeSantis and the Fight for the New Republican Party
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Henry Olsen, Washington Post columnist, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and author of The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism, joins The Realignment. Henry and Marshall discuss how the GOP of 2023 differs from its pre-Trump iteration, why the extent to which the GOP is a personal vehicle for Trump is the central question facing the right leading into 2024, whether Ron DeSantis is able to meet the moment, and where his "four factions" that compose the GOP's coalition stand.
Introducing The Realignment Part II - The Lead Up to 2024 and Beyond
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In a break from The Realignment's regularly scheduled programming, Marshall discusses the lessons from 350+ episodes, the differences between "Part I" and "Part II" of the shows coverage, the need to move on from merely describing "realignments" to actually articulating what should be done, lists some of his favorite episodes, and lays out all of the different ways to engage with the show.
357 | The Revolts That Shook Britain and the Realignment of Western Politics with Matthew Goodwin
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Matthew Goodwin, author of Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics, joins The Realignment. Matthew and Marshall discuss how the rise of national populism, the Brexit vote, the fall of Labour's working-class Red Wall, and constant leadership transitions upended British politics. They also tie Britain's political realignment to broader trends in Western politics from the United States to France and Italy.
356 | Inside the TikTok Ban/Forced Sale Debate with Adam Kovacevich
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Adam Kovacevich, Founder and CEO of the Chamber of Progress, joins The Realignment to discuss last week's TikTok hearings on Capitol Hill, the case for and against a TikTok ban/forced sale, how center-left views on technology shape the Washington, DC debate, and how the CFIUS mandated sale of the gay dating app Grindr should inform today's policy debates.
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Iraq War 20th Anniversary | Robert Draper on How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq
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In recognition of the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, we're re-airing Marshall's interview with Robert Draper, author of To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq.
355 | The Global AI Race and the Future of Great Power Competition with Paul Scharre
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Paul Scharre, author of Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, joins The Realignment to discuss how the latest artificial intelligence developments touch our lives, the national security implications of the AI race, and how the United States, Europe, and China plan to dominate the emerging field.
354 | Is America a Superpower in Peril? - with David McCormick
David McCormick, 2022 Pennsylvania Senate candidate, former CEO of Bridgewater, and author (with James Cunningham) of Superpower in Peril: A Battle Plan to Renew America, joins The Realignment. David and Marshall discuss his takeaways from the 2022 Senate race, how the right can balance between populism and traditional conservatism, and the effectiveness of Biden administration policies such as the CHIPS Act.
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353 | How the Consulting Industry Warped the Economy, Infantilized Government, and Weakened Business with Mariana Mazzucato
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Mariana Mazzucato, author (with Rosie Collington) of The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies, joins The Realignment. Mariana and Marshall discuss how her critique of consulting fits into her previous work on the future of capitalism, the failures of "expert" consultants in business and government, from Healthcare.gov to COVID, and what a reformed role for the industry looks like.
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352 | How the Media Lost Its Way and Lessons for 2024 with Steve Krakauer
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Steve Krakauer, author of Uncovered: How the Media Got Cozy with Power, Abandoned Its Principles, and Lost the People, joins The Realignment to discuss what went wrong with the media's coverage of the biggest stories of the Trump presidency, what independent and alternative media gets right (and wrong), and what shifting business models mean for the future of political coverage.
351 | Cheap Debt, Bailouts, Crashes, and the Fight for Economic Resilience with Liz Hoffman
Liz Hoffman, Business and Finance Editor at Semafor and author of Crash Landing: The Inside Story of How the World's Biggest Companies Survived an Economy on the Brink, joins The Realignment to discuss the tradeoffs between economic efficiency and resilience, why the roots of the COVID crash lay in the splitscreen performance of the American economy in the 2010s (stock market highs for top, stagnation for the bottom), which companies and industries won the post-COVID economic moment, and how the overwhelming governmental response in 2020 indicates a changed approach to future crashes.
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350 | Busting the Myth of Market Fundamentalism with Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway
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Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, authors of The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market, join The Realignment to discuss why they believe a myth-driven "market fundamentalism" is at the center of America's economic, political, and social ills.
349 | Vivek Ramaswamy on All Things Public Policy
Vivek Ramaswamy, 2024 presidential candidate and author of Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam and Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence, returns to The Realignment to discuss all things public policy.
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348 | Is Taiwan Next?: Part II with Elbridge Colby
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Elbridge Colby, co-founder of The Marathon Initiative, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development, and author of The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict, returns to The Realignment to follow up on last year's episode on what Russia's invasion of Ukraine means for Taiwan. Elbridge and Marshall discuss whether the U.S. can "walk and chew gum at the same time," what a "Twelve-Step" program for revitalizing the defense industrial base looks like, and how the U.S. can deter conflict in the Asia-Pacific region.
347 | Driving Battlefield Innovation from Afghanistan & Iraq to Ukraine and Beyond with Pete Newell
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Pete Newell, CEO of BMNT and former director of the U.S. Army's Rapid Equipping Force, joins The Realignment to discuss his efforts to adapt the military to the rapidly shifting battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, innovation lessons from the war in Ukraine, the impact of technological change, and how large organizations such as the Department of Defense can solve critical problems at startup speed.
346 | The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism with Martin Wolf
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Martin Wolf, author of The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, joins The Realignment to discuss why the marriage between democracy and capitalism is coming undone, the nature of our systemic crisis, what critics of capitalism and democracy get right (and wrong), and why democratic capitalism is superior to the alternatives.
345 | The Realignment Live Part III: Future of Families, Radical Decentralization, & the Paper Belt on Fire
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Last month, Marshall & Saagar hosted “The Realignment Live” in Washington, DC. Today’s episode features the conference’s last three session: the National Marriage Project’s director Brad Wilcox and the American Conservative’s Helen Andrews on the future of family policy, Danny O’Brien of the Filecoin Foundation on the case for radical decentralization, and the 1517 Fund’s Michael Gibson on the rise and fall of the “Paper Belt.”
344 | Inside the Nuclear Energy Renaissance with Bret Kugelmass
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Bret Kugelmass, Founder and CEO of Last Energy and host of the Titans of Nuclear podcast, joins The Realignment to discuss his plans to bring nuclear energy to scale, where the nuclear power industry went wrong after Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, how to reduce the cost of constructing nuclear power plants, and the degree to which concerns over safety should shape energy policy.
343 | The Realignment x The Good Time Show: ChatGPT and the Rise of AI, Media Critiques, Searching for Crypto's "Facebook Moment," and the Future of Social Media with Aarthi Ramamurthy & Sriram Krishnan
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Aarthi Ramamurthy and Sriram Krishnan, investors and hosts of The Good Time Show, join Saagar and Marshall on The Realignment to discuss all things tech and Silicon Valley. They cover the implications of ChatGPT and the rise of AI, their critiques of mainstream media's tech coverage, where crypto goes from the crash, the future of social media, and more...
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342 | Trump's Last Defense Secretary on Cutting the Pentagon Budget, Base Closures, Forever War Accountability, and New Threats with Christopher C. Miller
Christopher C. Miller, former Trump administration Acting Secretary of Defense, retired Army Green Beret, and author of Soldier Secretary: Warnings from the Battlefield & the Pentagon About America's Most Dangerous Enemies, joins The Realignment to discuss his time in the Trump administration, his special forces career during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, how the Pentagon does (and doesn't) work, and his call for major cuts to the defense budget along with a broader reorientation of America's troop presence abroad.
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341 | The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America with Philip Bump
Philip Bump, author of The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America and Washington Post National Columnist, joins The Realignment to discuss how the of the transition of political, cultural, and economic from Baby Boomers to younger generations will fundamentally reshape America.
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340 | Is a "Bill of Obligations" the Answer to America's Turmoil? with Richard Haass
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Dr. Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations and author of The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens, joins The Realignment to discuss his view that America's greatest threats are internal, not external, the case for a revitalized conception of citizenship, why we should place obligations on the same footing as rights, and his time leading the CFR during the aftermath of the Iraq War.
339 | The Realignment x Moment of Zen: Silicon Valley & DC, Trump vs DeSantis, and the future of media & politics
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338 | How to Fix America's "Underpants Gnomes" Problem with Frank DiStefano
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Frank Distefano, author of The Next Realignment: Why America's Parties Are Crumbling and What Happens Next, joins The Realignment to discuss his reaction to "The Realignment Live," how a South Park episode about underwear-stealing gnomes from the 1990s explains the American political system's blinds pots, the central "debate" that defines the realignment moment, and how politicians can evolve to meet the moment.
337 | The Realignment Live Part II: Kevin Roberts, John Burtka, Kristen Soltis Anderson, Nate Hochman, Saurabh Sharma, & Chris Griswold
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Last week, Marshall and Saagar hosted The Realignment Live! in Washington, DC. Today's episode features multiple sessions including the Heritage Foundation's Kevin Roberts and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's John Burtka on the future of the right, Echelon Insight's Kristen Soltis Anderson on the GOP's struggles with young voters, National Review's Nate Hochman and American Moment's Saurabh Sharma on the Gen-Z right, and Chris Griswold of American Compass on the realignment of conservative economics.
336 | The Realignment Live Part I: Matt Stoller, Julius Krein, Elbridge Colby, Jane Coaston, Yuval Levin, and Jason Willick
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Last week, Marshall and Saagar hosted The Realignment Live! in Washington, DC. Today's episode features multiple sessions including American Economic Liberties Project's Matt Stoller and American Affairs' Julius Krein on whether the "realignment" is real, the Marathon Initiative's Elbridge Colby on the right's foreign policy debates after Ukraine, the New York Times' Jane Coaston on the dynamics driving America's political system, and the American Enterprise Institute's Yuval Levin and the Washington Post's Jason Willick on the right's relationship with democracy in the 2020s.
335 | America's Pacific Power Paradox and the Roots of Asia's Instability with Van Jackson
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Van Jackson, author of Pacific Power Paradox: American Statecraft and the Fate of Asian Peace, joins The Realignment to discuss why he believes the U.S. is often the source of threats to peace in the Asia-Pacific, rather than the bulwark against instability, alternate security arrangements that aren't reliant on American primacy, the cost of the foreign policy "blob's" lack of focus on political economy, and the future of progressive foreign policy
334 | Is Main Street Conservatism the Future of the Right? with Helen Andrews & Emile Doak
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Helen Andrews and Emile Doak, co-editors of Main Street Conservatism: The Future of the Right - Lessons from 20 Years of the American Conservative, join The Realignment as a tie-in to yesterday's "Realignment Live" event. They discuss the right's political realignment through the lenses of American culture, political economy, foreign policy, and faith & family, why the issues that drove Trump's election aren't going away, and argue their brand of "main street" conservatism is the only way to bridge the chasm between voters and the DC professional class.
333 | Inside the New House China Select Committee with Rep. Mike Gallagher
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Congressman Mike Gallagher, the newly-appointed chairman of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, returns to The Realignment. He discusses his vision for the select committee, how to avoid a catastrophic military conflict in the Pacific, objections to the committee raised by progressive Democrats, and how the Pentagon should navigate culture war controversies. Plus, Congressman Gallagher offers Marshall some advice on how to get the most bang for his buck at his upcoming nuptials.
332 | How the Congo's Cobalt Fuels Electric Vehicles, Batteries, and Modern-Day Slavery with Siddharth Kara
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Siddharth Kara, author of Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives, joins The Realignment to discuss the role cobalt plays in lithium batteries that power everything from laptops, phones, and electric vehicles, how the concentration of the world's vital cobalt supply in the Congo leads to the exploitation of workers, and offers a road map for how corporations can clean up their global supply chains.
331 | One Small Step Towards a Fusion Energy Breakthrough with Charles Seife
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Charlie's Atlantic Article: Is This the ‘Kitty Hawk Moment’ for Fusion Energy?
Charles Seife, author of Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking, joins The Realignment to discuss last month's announcement by the Department of Energy of a successful controlled nuclear fusion reaction. Charles and Marshall separate the promise of "near limitless, clean energy" from the hype, explore why for six decades, fusion energy has always been "20 years away," the steep hurdles to a commercial reactor, and the role of moonshot scientific projects play in meeting the world's energy needs.
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330 | Does Great Power Equal Responsibility? America and the World from WWI to Ukraine with Robert Kagan
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Robert Kagan, author of The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941, joins The Realignment to discuss how the U.S. responded to the collapse of world order during and after WWI, how the acquisition of economic and military power permanently shifted America's relationship to Europe and Asia, debates over intervention, and how the pre-WWII period rhymes with today's conflicts.
329 | Saagar & Marshall on Congress, Airline Debacles, & Taiwan + John Lettieri on Non-Competes and American Dynamism
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CSIS Taiwan Wargame Results: The First Battle of the Next War: Wargaming a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan
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Saagar and Marshall discuss Speaker Kevin McCarthy and the new Republican House majority, the lessons of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's tenure, and the results of a wargame focused on a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Afterward, Marshall interviews Economic Innovation Group President and Chief Executive Officer John Lettieri about the FTC's proposed rule banning non-competes in the workplace and EIG's approach to restoring dynamism in the American economy.
328 | The Pentagon Isn't Ready for the New World of Disruptive Innovation with Steve Blank
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Steve Blank's Stanford class: Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition
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Steve Blank, co-founder of the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation, Stanford adjunct professor, and former Defense Business Board member, joins The Realignment to discuss why the Department of Defense is built for a world that no longer exists, how and why the U.S. finds itself in an undeclared "crisis," the case for sweeping reform, the implications and nature of disruptive technology, and why the Pentagon continues to fail its audits.
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327 | Welcome to 2023 - Navigating Political & Market Chaos with Bradley Tusk
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Bradley Tusk, CEO and co-founder of Tusk Ventures, returns to The Realignment to discuss Speaker Kevin McCarthy's election debacle, the prospects for Congressional Democrats and Republicans in 2023, the state of the post-boom tech industry, crypto post-SBF, and offers several predictions for 2023.
326 | Ian Kershaw: The Personalities Who Built and Destroyed Modern Europe
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Ian Kershaw, author of Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe, Hitler: A Biography, and The Global Age: Europe, 1950-2017, joins The Realignment to discuss how the characters and personalities of individual 20th-century European leaders led to triumph and tragedy. Ian and Marshall also discuss his evaluations of despots ranging from Hitler, Stalin, and Lenin to democratic leaders such as de Gaulle, Churchill, and Adenauer, and how we should approach today's authoritarian leaders.
325 | Shannon K. O'Neil: The Globalization Myth - Why Regions Matter
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Shannon K. O'Neil, author of The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter, joins The Realignment to discuss why the conventional story of globalization since the 1980s is wrong, why companies, money, ideas, and people looked regionally, not globally, how three regional hubs (North America, Europe, and Asia) will dominate the next decade(s), who will get left behind, and how the U.S. can lean into its regional strengths.
324 | Paul Millerd: Imagining a New Story for Work with the Pathless Path
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Paul Millerd, author of The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story for Work, joins The Realignment to discuss the future of work and career advancement in a fast-changing world. Marshall and Paul discuss economic and workplace tumult post-COVID, recent layoffs across the tech sector, and how his story transitioning from high-powered consulting and an MBA offers a model for those seeking to embark on new paths outside our increasingly tracked society.
323 | James Rickards: How Broken Supply Chains Will Sink the Global Economy
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James Rickards, author of Sold Out: How Broken Supply Chains, Surging Inflation, and Political Instability Will Sink the Global Economy, joins The Realignment to discuss how and why the global supply chain crunch began long before COVID, the entanglement of economics and geopolitics, why reforms/fixes to the status quo aren't enough, and what the emerging, regionally-focused "Supply Chain 2.0" will look like.
322 | Jeremi Suri: America's Unfinished War Over Democracy
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Jeremi Suri, author of Civil War by Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy and The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office, joins The Realignment to discuss the history of debates over how America should implement its democratic ideals. Jeremi and Marshall also discuss how and why the "democracy" issue defined the midterms in battleground states, expanding responsiveness within the political system, and his critiques of the status quo.
321 | Beverly Gage: How the FBI and Its Politics Shaped the American Century
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Beverly Gage, 20th-century American History Professor at Yale and author of G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, joins The Realignment to discuss how J. Edgar Hoover's tenure as FBI director shaped American history, politicized federal law enforcement, and how today's bureau navigates its hyper-political challenges like the Mar-a-Lago raid and the Trump presidency.
320 | Trae Stephens: Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy
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Trae Stephens, Co-Founder of Anduril and Partner at Founders Fund, joins The Realignment's daily end-of-year coverage to discuss Anduril's mission document: Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy. Trae and Marshall discuss the defense industrial base vulnerabilities exposed by the war in Ukraine, how technology can deter aggression, and how to address challenges rising from outdated systems to the spiraling defense budget.
319 | Frank Dikötter: Shattering the Myths of China After Mao
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Frank Dikötter, author of China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower and The People's Trilogy, joins The Realignment to discuss how unprecedented access to Chinese archives during the brief 2000s-2010s period of openness offers a corrective to the conventional wisdom in the West about China's post-1976 ambitions. Frank and Marshall also cover what questions future researchers should study should the archives ever open again, particularly relating to Zero-COVID.
318 | Noah Smith: Vibe Shifting Out of the Long 2010s
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Noah Smith, author of the Noahpinion Substack, joins The Realignment's end-of-the-year daily series to discuss why 2022 *actually* feels like the end of the long 2010s that began with the response to the 2008 financial crisis and the election of President Barack Obama, how 2010s upheavals reshaped American politics, and why the remainder of the 2020s will be defined by "exhaustion."
317 | Saagar & Marshall's 2022 Year-in-Review: China Protests & Zero COVID, the End of History Returns, and Is America Politically Exhausted?
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Saagar and Marshall kick off The Realignment's End-of-Year coverage with a discussion of the issues that defined 2022: the rising backlash against China's Zero COVID policy, how liberal democracy fared against its authoritarian rivals, where the culture war stands post-midterms, and how political exhaustion could define the rest of the decade.
316 | William D. Cohan: The Rise & Unimaginable Fall of General Electric, America's Iconic Corporation
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William D. Cohan, founding partner of Puck, writer at large for Airmail, former investment banker, and author of Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon, joins The Realignment to discuss his autopsy of General Electric, from its founding by Thomas Edison to its fall in the 2010s, the keys to impactful business journalism in an age of scandals from SBF/FTX to Elizabeth Holmes, and where responsibility for the GE's fall lies.
315 | David Sax: The Over-Hyped Digital World and Why Our Future Is Analog
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David Sax (not the All-In Podcast host/VC), author of The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World and The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter, joins The Realignment to discuss why early-COVID promises of digital transformation were over-hyped in work, commerce, health/fitness, and our personal lives and what a proper balance of analog and digital experiences looks like.
314 | Saagar & Marshall: Unpacking Trump's 2024 Announcement + the 2022 Midterm Results
Saagar and Marshall discuss former President Trump's 2024 announcement, the Republican Party's outperformance in the 2022 midterms, and take several audience questions.
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313 | William Inboden: How Ronald Reagan Won the First Cold War
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William Inboden, author of The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink, Executive Director of the Clements Center for National Security, and Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, joins The Realignment to discuss how President Reagan's grand strategy led to the Soviet Union's "negotiated surrender," America's long-term strengths in the face of short-term challenges, and how these lessons apply to what many describe as our second Cold War with China and Russia.
312 | Christopher Marquis: How China's Communist Roots Shape Its Economy, State Party, and Xi Jinping's Ambitions
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Christopher Marquis, Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management at Cambridge Judge Business School and author of Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise, joins The Realignment to discuss the degree to which China's economic success is rooted in communism, the throughline between the leadership of Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping, and what the West's traditional understanding of Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in the 1970s gets wrong.
311 | Lars Doucet on Georgism: Land and Why Rent is too High & Wages too Low
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Lars Doucet, author of Land is a Big Deal: Why rent is too High, Wages too Low, and What We Can do About It, joins The Realignment to argue that Georgism, the economic/political philosophy of Henry George, an often forgotten 19th-century thinker, is the best lens to analyze America's housing affordability and wage stagnation challenges.
310 | The Realignment x Breaking Points Election Analysis & Coverage
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As we wait for the full results of the 2022 midterms, check out the audio version of Saagar Enjeti, Marshall Kosloff, Kyle Kulinski, and Krystal Ball's analysis of the 2022 midterms. Next week we'll be back with a full-episode and un-paywalled Q&A around the results.
309 | Michael Gibson: Setting the Higher Ed Paper Belt on Fire
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Michael Gibson, Co-Founder of the venture capital firm 1517 and author of the upcoming Paper Belt on Fire: How Renegade Investors Sparked a Revolt Against the University, joins The Realignment to discuss his journey challenging the higher education status quo leading the Thiel Fellowship, why the "Paper Belt" running from D.C. to Cambridge struggles to innovate, and which significant scientific and technological problems dropouts and college grads alike should tackle.
308 | Johnathan Bi: René Girard, Mimetic Theory, and Confronting the Apocalypse
Johnathan Bi, host and creator of a new seven-part series on René Girard's political thought, joins The Realignment to discuss the case for studying political philosophy, Mimetic Theory's theoretical and practical applications, and how Girard's work explains 21st-century economic challenges and fears of a nuclear apocalypse.
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307 | Saagar & Marshall: Elon Musk's Twitter Buy & the Death of Social Media + Pre-Midterm Predictions
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Saagar and Marshall discuss Elon Musk's post-acquisition plans for Twitter amid the so-called "death" of social media and give their pre-midterms predictions/analysis.
306 | Lyle Jeremy Rubin: A Marine Questions American Power, Capitalism, & the Future of the Left
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Lyle Jeremy Rubin, author of Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body: A Marine's Unbecoming, joins The Realignment to discuss how his time as a Marine officer in Afghanistan led him to re-evaluate his perspectives on American hegemony, capitalism, and his neoconservative political beliefs. He also discusses how the debates within the American left about the proper response to the war in Ukraine and Russian and Chinese imperial projects.
305 | Nick Santhanam: The Return of Manufacturing and a Better, Faster, Stronger America
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Nick Santhanam, co-author of The Titanium Economy: How Industrial Technology Can Create a Better, Faster, Stronger America, joins The Realignment to discuss why he believes that the future of the American economy lies in the manufacturing sector, how the titanium economy jobs provide the basis for middle-class wages and growth outside the coasts, and that the structural economic and geopolitical factors fueling re-shoring and localized production are here to stay.
304 | Shadi Hamid: The Problem of Democracy
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Shadi Hamid, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of The Problem of Democracy: America, the Middle East, and the Rise and Fall of an Idea, joins The Realignment to discuss the domestic and international challenges facing "democracy," why how democratic liberalism compares to its rivals in China and Russia, and what the Middle East can teach America about de-escalating "existential" political conflict.
303 | Jai Malik & Lucas Bagno: Disrupting America's Industrial Base
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Jai Malik, founder and General Partner at Countdown Capital, and Lucas Bagno, an investor at Village Global and co-host of the Solarpunk podcast, joined The Realignment for a live recording at Lincoln Network's Reboot Conference in Miami last week. They discussed the need to rebuild America's industrial base, the need to invest in areas including aerospace, manufacturing, defense, energy, and construction, and which challenges can be solved by startups and venture capital, and what requires actual policy change.
302 | Timothy Shenk: The Struggle to Realign American Politics from Alexander Hamilton to Obama and Trump
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Timothy Shenk, historian and author of Realigners: Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries, and the Struggle to Rule American Democracy, joins The Realignment to discuss who popular majorities, leaders, activists, and visionaries have translated ideas to action in order to transform the American political system.
301 | Rana Foroohar: The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World
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Rana Foroohar, author of Homecoming: The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World and Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business, joins The Realignment to discuss why she believes the post-COVID age of economic localization will put an end to 50 years of neoliberal globalization, how the left and right are responding to this new paradigm, and what a more resilient and regionally-focused America will look like.
300 | Thomas E. Ricks: How the Civil Rights Movement Waged a "Good War"
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Thomas E. Ricks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968, along with military histories including The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, and Making the Corps, joins The Realignment to analyze the success of the civil rights movement through the lens of military strategy and its lessons for nonviolent movements today, revisits his critique of American generalship as the profession comes under political scrutiny, and assesses the state of the U.S. military as it transitions from the War on Terror to the era of great power competition.
299 | Reza Aslan: How Should Americans React to Iran's Revolution(s)?
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Reza Aslan, author of An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville, joins The Realignment to discuss the ongoing protests against the Iranian regime, the role Americans such as Howard Baskerville have played in Iran's century of revolutionary movements and protests, and the long-running debate about whether America has a responsibility to spread a Wilsonian democracy and human rights agenda?
298 | Josh Steinman: Inside Trump's NSC & Rebuilding America's Industrial Base
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297 | Saagar & Marshall: Marc Andreessen's Book List, Semiconductors, Responding to Putin's Speech, and More...
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296 | Richard Reeves: Why Modern Boys and Men Are Struggling and What to Do About It
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Richard V. Reeves, Brookings Senior Fellow and author of Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It, joins The Realignment to discuss how decades-long social and economic changes have left boys and men struggling in the classroom and the workforce, how and why the educational system favors girls and women, but the labor market favors men, and the idea of "equality of opportunity" in America by resisting his previous book: Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It.
295 | Chris Miller: The Chip War and the Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
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Chris Miller, Tufts University professor and author of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology, joins The Realignment to discuss how and why microchip technology became the world's most critical resource, the role it plays in the U.S.-China relationship, why Taiwan dominates microchip manufacturing, the implications of an invasion, and the prospects for reshoring chip manufacturing in the U.S.
294 | Steve Case: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places Are Building the New American Dream
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Steve Case, co-founder of America Online (AOL) and Revolution joins The Realignment to discuss his new book: The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places Are Building the New American Dream, what he has learned about America's jobs landscape visiting 43 cities on his Rise of the Rest Tour, and how communities outside coastal America benefit from a level playing field.
293 | Saagar & Marshall: Nord Stream Leak Origins + How Should We Deter Nuclear Conflict?
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Saagar and Marshall discuss the debate over the origins of the Nord Stream leak/sabotage, Europe's energy challenges moving into winter 2022-2023, and the best ways to deter the use of a nuclear weapon/escalation given Russia's "referendums" in eastern Ukraine.
292 | Scott Galloway: America Adrift - The Story of the U.S. Through 100 Charts
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Scott Galloway, author of Adrift: America in 100 Charts, Professor of Marketing at NYU, and podcast host, returns to The Realignment to discuss why he believes America is on the brink of massive changes that will reshape the economy and disrupt the middle class.
291 | Geoffrey Cain: Should TikTok Be Banned or Independently Spun-Out?
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Geoffrey Cain, Lincoln Network Senior Fellow in the FACET program and author of The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey Into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future, returns to The Realignment to discuss his recent Congressional testimony about the national security threat posed by TikTok, the state of U.S.-China tech relations, and how the U.S. government should approach the app, even if straight a ban isn't on the table.
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290 | David Phillips: The War for the Soul of the Navy Seals, Recruitment Shortfalls, and the Military's Afghanistan/Iraq Hangover
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David Phillips, author of Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy SEALs and Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times national correspondent, joins The Realignment to discuss scandals within the Navy Seal community, the U.S. military's problem meeting recruitment goals, and whether today's struggles rhyme with the aftermath of the Vietnam War?
289 | Jonathan Darman: How FDR, Lyndon Johnson, and Ronald Reagan Realigned America
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Jonathan Darman, author of Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President and Landslide: LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America, joins The Realignment to discuss how FDR, LBJ, and Ronald Reagan became transformational presidents (for good and for ill), the role of individuals vs. institutions in shaping the country, and how personal struggles can transform leaders.
288 | Michael Tomasky: Why Progressive, Middle-Out Economics Will Succeed Neoliberalism
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Michael Tomasky, Editor of The New Republic and Editor in Chief of Democracy, joins The Realignment to discuss how progressives are reimaging economics to confront the neoliberal era's failures, why rising inequality and upward distribution is the central challenge facing America, and how the Biden administration's agenda reflects an emerging economic consensus in the Democratic Party.
287 | Jack Detsch: Will Ukraine's Counteroffensive Change the Course of the War?
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Jack Detsch, Foreign Policy's Pentagon and National Security Reporter, joins The Realignment to discuss the results of Ukraine's new eastern counteroffensive, why Russian forces are struggling on the defensive, the impact of winter, and what the status quo through 2023 could look like.
286 | Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to Global Domination - Mark Bergen on How YouTube Got to Billions of Daily Views
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Mark Bergen, technology reporter and author of Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination, joins The Realignment to discuss why YouTube flies under the radar in the big tech conversation, how the company addressed free speech and election challenges, and how it upended the media industry.
285 | Saagar & Marshall: Was the U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan Botched? + 9/11 Anniversary Reflection
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Saagar and Marshall discuss the dual anniversaries of 9/11 and the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan falling the fall of Kabul in 2021, lessons from the War on Terror, and the history of civil-military relations since the end of World War II.
284 | The Realignment x The Pull Request: Antonio García Martinez on What's Broken, How to Fix It, or Do We Just Move to Balaji's Network State?
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During our Labor Day Weekend hiatus, Marshall joined previous Realignment guest Antonio García Martinez's Callin podcast The Pull Request. They discussed "What’s broken, why, and how to fix it (or do we just move to Balaji’s network state?)"
283 | California at the Epicenter of America's New Energy Crisis - Katherine Blunt on the Fall of PG&E, the Grid, and New Energy Sources
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Katherine Blunt, Wall Street Journal reporter and author of California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric - and What It Means for America's Power Grid, joins The Realignment to discuss the challenge of fixing the nation's overstrained and outmoded power grid, the role of utilities in the wildfire epidemic, and the new energy challenges facing America in the 2020s.
282 | The Realignment X Narratives Podcast: How Do We Make it to the 2030s?
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In this Labor Day weekend crossover, Marshall recorded an in-person crossover episode in Austin with the Narratives Podcast. Will Jarvis and Lars Doucet spoke with him about their theories of change and progress, what outsiders get right and wrong about the American political system, and more...
281 | Why Are Latino Voters Moving Towards Trump? - Geraldo Cadava on the GOP's Relationship with Hispanic Voters
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Geraldo Cadava, Northwestern University professor and author of The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump, joins The Realignment to discuss how working-class Republican voters trended toward's former President Trump between 2016 and 2020, debates over terminology (Hispanic, Latino, and Latinx), and how immigration reform influences the Hispanic vote.
280 | Saagar & Marshall on Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Plans + Beth Macy on the Next Stage of the Opioid Crisis
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In today's two-part episode, Saagar and Marshall discuss President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan and how they think one can actually "solve" America's higher education crisis. Then, Beth Macy, author of Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America's Overdose Crisis and Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America, joins the show to discuss the next stage of the opioid crisis.
279 | Sprinting Towards Conflict with a Peaking China - Michael Beckley on the Dangers of the Next Decade
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Michael Beckley, Tufts University professor and co-author (with Hal Brands) of Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China, joins The Realignment to discuss why he believes that China's power relative to the United States will peak in the 2020s, how that makes a catastrophic conflict more, rather than less, likely, and how the United States and its allies should navigate combustible challenges such as defending Taiwan.
278 | Why Were Schools Closed So Long During COVID? - Anya Kamenetz on What COVID Did to Children
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Anya Kamenetz, former NPR education reporter and author of The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now, joins The Realignment to discuss how COVID impacted a generation of school-aged children, how and why we failed to elevate in-person education as an "essential service," and the role public schools play in America's social safety net.
277 | Does America’s Most Important Asian Ally Want to Fight? - Tobias Harris on a pacifist Japan in the 21st century
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Tobias Harris, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and author of The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan, joins The Realignment to discuss the assassination of former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, how and why he sought to orient Japan away from its post-WWII pacifism, what the "new" Japan looks like, and how the U.S, Japan, and other allies should approach the growing threat of conflict in the Asia-Pacific.
276 | Saagar & Marshall: What Are Realignments? Liz Cheney's Defeat + Trump's Centrality, and U.S.-Taiwan Policy After Pelosi's Visit
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In today's discussion episode, Saagar and Marshall discuss Rep. Liz Cheney's Republican primary loss, Trump's centrality to the GOP during the lead-up to 2024, whether the GOP's foreign policy stance changed with Trump, and how the U.S. should approach Taiwan after Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit.
275 | Jason Willick: Mar-a-Lago and Justice in a Divided America
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Washington Post columnist Jason Willick joins The Realignment to discuss the aftermath of the FBI's search of former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, how both parties approach federal law enforcement, and the broader question of how the justice system can operate in a zero-sum political world with eroding consensus and trust?
274 | Franek Sokolowski & Wiktor Babinski: How Sanctions Are Crippling Russia
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273 | Elliot Ackerman: Reckoning with America's End in Afghanistan
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Elliot Ackerman, author of The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan and 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, returns to The Realignment near the first anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Kabul to discuss how the war reshaped American society, the pivot to Great Power competition, and his service during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as a Marine/CIA officer.
272 | Frank DiStefano: Why Democrats & Republicans Haven't Realigned (Yet)
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Frank DiStefano, author of The Next Realignment: Why America's Parties Are Crumbling and What Happens Next, joins The Realignment's weekly discussion episode to unpack what causes political parties to realign, the debate over what America's political problems/challenges, whether existing parties should be reformed with new ideas, figures, and coalitions, and the show's long-running debate over third/new political parties.
271 | Special: Dr. Mark Trexler (AKA Marshall's Dad) Responds to Alex Epstein on Climate Change and Energy Policy
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270 | Season Premiere: Saagar & Marshall Discuss Andrew Yang's Forward, Pelosi in Taiwan, and More
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Saagar and Marshall kick off The Realignment's new season by discussing Andrew Yang's new political party, America's political center-of-gravity, whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan in the face of CCP protest is a good idea, and more...
269 | Season Finale: Eve Fairbanks on What South Africa's Reckoning Means for the U.S.
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For the show's season finale (we're back in August) Eve Fairbanks, author of The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning, joins The Realignment to discuss parallels between 21st century South Africa and the United States when it comes to issues of race, class, economics, and optimism vs. pessimism. Eve and Marshall also discuss post-Apartheid South Africa in the context of our reevaluation of early 1990s triumphs such as the Cold War.
268 | Saagar & Marshall on Realignments + Mark Leibovich on Trump's DC
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After last week's technical difficulties, we've combined two recordings that were cut short. First, Saagar and Marshall discuss the NYT's new poll on the realignment of American politics on issues of race, class, and deep dissatisfaction with the status quo. Then, Marshall interviews The Atlantic's Mark Leibovich, author of This Town, a negative portrait of DC during the height of the Obama era, about his new book, Thank You for Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission.
Listener Q&A: Collapsing Institutions and Medicore Elites. How to Get Into Suits. What Are the Best Books on the Path to WW1? Do Blue State Migrants Bring Their Problems to Red States? And More....
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267 | Matthew Ball: How the Metaverse Could Revolutionize Everything
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Matthew Ball, author of The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything, joins The Realignment to argue the Metaverse represents the "next internet," explains why the term is everywhere, defines what the concept is (and isn't), and how it could upend the digital and real worlds alike.
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266 | Nick Seabrook: Gerrymandering, Responsive Politics, and the Threat to Democracy
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Nick Seabrook, author of One Person, One Vote: A Surprising History of Gerrymandering in America, joins The Realignment to discuss the history of gerrymandering and its costs, the need for responsive politics, why despite its long history, gerrymandering is particularly harmful today, and the reasons why campaign finance reform, electoral reform, and new parties won't solve America's polarization problem.
265 | Peter Leyden: Is California the Future of American Politics?
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Peter Leyden, Host of the Civilization Salons at The Long Now Foundation and former Managing Editor of Wired Magazine, joins The Realignment to discuss his optimistic perspective on America's future, why California's recent political history is a preview of America's long-term trajectory, the forces and dynamics that will shape the 21st century, and looks back on The Long Boom, his 1990s era imaging of the present day.
264 | Balaji Srinivasan: How and Why to Start New Countries
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Balaji Srinivasan, author of The Network State, returns to The Realignment to discuss why he thinks internet-native "Network States" are the successors to the nation-state, how he sees American and global politics reorienting around cryptocurrencies in the 2020s, compares and contrasts the prospects of the United States, China, and India, and why mainstream elites will struggle to navigate this emergent order.
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263 | Steven McGregor: Will the U.S. Win the Next Battle of Midway?
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Steven McGregor, co-author with Brendan Simms of The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway, joins The Realignment to discuss how the lessons of the U.S. victory in the Pacific apply to today, how the Battle of Midway revealed the country's fundamental strengths, the state of naval readiness, and the new challenge to the status quo in the Asia-Pacific region.
262 | Saagar & Marshall: Marc Andreessen Reflections, Roe v. Wade Overturn and Where We Go Next + the Case for Suits and Ties
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Saagar and Marshall reflect on this week's episodes with a16z's Marc Andreessen and Katherine Boyle and discuss how last week's Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade will shift short, medium, and long-term American politics. They conclude with lighter segments arguing for the importance of suits and ties (at least sometimes) and Saagar's deeper explanation of his critique of Europe that went viral on Twitter.
261 | Katherine Boyle: Getting Serious About American Dynamism
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Katherine Boyle, general partner at a16z and co-lead of the firm's American Dynamism practice, joins The Realignment to discuss how the frame of American Dynamism as a response to technological and societal stagnation, her optimism about the United States, and why the ability to "build," hold oneself accountable, and deliver results will be increasingly prized in founders and politicians alike.
260 | Marc Andreessen on Everything: The Need to Build, Web3's Value, Political Realignments, Collapsing Trust, U.S. History, and More...
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Marc Andreessen, cofounder and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, cofounder of Netscape, and co-creator of the influential Mosaic web browser joins The Realignment to discuss how the second industrial revolution (1880s-1920s) shapes his view of America today, the consequences of the shift from a high to low institutional trust society, the response to Web3 skeptics, how crashes shape the tech industry, and why it's "time to build."
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259 | Chris Fenton: Top Gun: Maverick & the Future of Hollywood in China
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Chris Fenton, Hollywood executive and author of Feeding the Dragon: Inside the Trillion Dollar Dilemma Facing Hollywood, the NBA, & American Busines, joins The Realignment to discuss what the success of Top Gun: Maverick means for the future of Hollywood, considering that it will soon cross $1 billion in global box office without the lucrative Chinese market.
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258 | Michelle Wilde Anderson: How Recessions & Politics Dismantle Local Governments
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Michelle Wilde Anderson, Stanford Law professor and author of The Fight to Save the Town: Reimagining Discarded America, joins The Realignment to discuss how the Great Recession devasted working-class community's across America, how bankrupt local governments struggle with decline, effective models for reform and renewal, and how local politics can make a difference.
257 | Saagar & Marshall: Unpacking Peter Zeihan, Senate Gun Legislation, and Will Biden Run Again in 2024?
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Saagar and Marshall discuss their reaction to Peter Zeihan's appearance on The Realignment, the collapse of globalization, how and if the U.S. can still solve big problems, the debate over whether Biden should run again in 2024, the Senate's proposed gun legislation, and more...
256 | Andrew Rice: How the Year 2000 Broke America
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Andrew Rice, author of The Year That Broke America: An Immigration Crisis, a Terrorist Conspiracy, the Summer of Survivor, a Ridiculous Fake Billionaire, a Fight for Florida, and the 537 Votes That Changed Everything, joins The Realignment to discuss how and why the year 2000 was a decisive turning point in American politics and culture.
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We cover: What drives our politics? Trump vs. Desantis in 2024? What issue will finally realign American politics? How celebrities should engage in politics? And more...
255 | Peter Zeihan: The End of the World Is Just the Beginning
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Peter Zeihan, geopolitical strategist and author of The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization, joins The Realignment to discuss why 2019 may have been the world's economic peak, which nations will rise and fall as globalization collapses, and why America's lost interest in keeping the system going.
Teaser | What Trump's Foreign Policy Legacy Means for 2024
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254 | Saagar & Marshall: Jan. 6 Committee, SF DA Recall, and Celebs in Politics
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Saagar and Marshall discuss the January 6 Committee's hearings, their significance, and why they aren't driving the midterms, the results of the recall election of San Francisco's DA, Chesa Boudin, and what his loss means for criminal justice reform, and the impact of celebrities in politics via Dr. Oz's win in the PA Republican Senate primary and Matthew McConaughey at the White House.
253 | Realignment Double-Header: Is a U.S. Conflict with China Inevitable?
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New Format: In a special, two-part episode, two guests join The Realignment to provide differing perspectives on a pressing issue. First, Dr. Aaron Friedberg, Princeton professor and author of Getting China Wrong joins to argue why the post-Cold War "engagement" approach to China failed, and how the U.S. should redefine the relationship. Second, Zachary Karabell, previous Realignment guest and author of Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power, joins to discuss his NYT op-ed arguing that the U.S. should prioritize pushing back against actual Russian aggression as opposed to hypothetical Chinese actions.
252 | Ian Bremmer: Pandemics, Climate Change, and Disruption. Do Crises Equal Opportunity?
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Ian Bremmer, author of The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats -- And Our Response -- Will Change the World and of Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism, joins The Realignment to discuss the opportunity for reform and renewal presented by looming health emergencies, catastrophic climate change, technological disruption, and other emerging crises.
251 | Alex Epstein: The Case for Fossil Fuels
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Alex Epstein, author of Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas -- Not Less, joins The Realignment to discuss why he believes fossil fuels will be the dominant energy source moving forward, humanity's relationship and responsibility toward the environment, and where climate change fits into his analysis.
250 | David Gelles: Undoing the Legacy of the Man Who Broke Capitalism
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David Gelles, "Corner Office" columnist at The New York Times and author of The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America -- and How to Undo His Legacy, joins The Realignment to discuss how Jack Welch's 1981 assumption of the CEO role at General Electric ushered in a new, cutthroat era of American capitalism while permanently redefining the role of the CEO.
249 | Saagar & Marshall: America's Gun Debate + Should the U.S. Fight for Taiwan?
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Saagar and Marshall discuss the disastrous police response to the Uvalde school shooting, where America's gun debate heads next, whether the U.S. should defend Taiwan, and how the lessons of Russia's invasion of Ukraine will play out in the Asia-Pacific theater.
248 | Yoram Hazony: Realigning Conservatism
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Yoram Hazony, author of Conservatism: A Rediscovery and The Virtue of Nationalism, joins The Realignment to discuss his view that the conservative movement lost its way after the 1960s, why the left, right, and center aren't up to the task of addressing the problems of a "dissolving" America, and his vision for a less individualistic and more traditional version of conservatism.
247 | Ira Shapiro: Is the U.S. Senate Broken?
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Ira Shapiro, former ambassador, trade negotiator, Senate staffer, and author of The Betrayal: How Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans Abandoned America, Broken: Can the Senate Save Itself and the Country, and The Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis, joins The Realignment to discuss the structural problems, personalities, and trends that ail a U.S. Senate unable to address the country's biggest problems.
246 | Zach Graumann: What Are the New Rules of Politics?
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Zach Graumann, Andrew Yang's 2020 campaign manager and author of Longshot: How Political Nobodies Took Andrew Yang National -- and the New Playbook That Let Us Build a Movement, joins Marshall and Saagar on The Realignment. They discuss what does (and doesn't) work as social media, shifting ideologies, and new expectations upend the political system, the areas where traditional gatekeepers still hold power, and the difficult balancing acts required of any major political figure or movement.
245 | Phil Klay: Citizenship in an Age of Endless & Invisible Wars
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Phil Klay, U.S. Marine Corps Veteran and author of Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War, Missionaries, and Redeployment, joins The Realignment to discuss how veteran and non-veteran Americans should reckon with the War on Terror, what policies should be up for debate when it comes to foreign policy, the withdrawal of Afghanistan, and whether the concept "endless wars" is useful or not.
244 | Michael Kazin: The Future of the Left in a Realigning America
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Michael Kazin, Georgetown professor and author of What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party, American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation, and The Populist Persuasion: An American History, joins The Realignment to discuss the future of the Democratic Party, how economics can trump culture wars, how to build a majority coalition in a divided America, and the long-running battle between liberals and progressives.
243 | Saagar & Marshall: Baby Formula Shortage, Stocks/Crypto, Debating $40 Billion to Ukraine, and More...
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Saagar and Marshall discuss the roots of America's baby formula shortage and what to do about it, the value of stocks and crypto, the impact of inflation, streaming services after the end of Netflix's monopoly, the future of the office/WFH set-ups, and debate the $40 billion aid package to Ukraine.
242 | Christopher Blattman: Why Studying the Roots of War Shows the Paths to Peace
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Christopher Blattman, Professor of Global Conflict Studies at the University of Chicago and author Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace, joins The Realignment to discuss the reasons why conflict escalates into full-blown violence and warfare and the implications of the fact that "peace" not war is the historical norm for humanity.
241 | Francis Fukuyama: How the Left and Right Challenge Classical Liberalism
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Francis Fukuyama, author of Liberalism and Its Discontents, The End of History and the Last Man, and Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment, joins The Realignment to discuss the emerging challenges to Classical Liberalism from the left and right, why the war in Ukraine could revive the spirit of 1989's political revolutions at the end of the Cold War, and how to overcome cynicism about democracy.
240 | Saagar and Marshall Discuss the Supreme Court and Russia's Victory Day Parade
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Saagar and Marshall continue their new one-on-one discussion series. On today's episode, they cover the Supreme Court after the draft decision leak, how the overturning of Roe v. Wade would shift American politics, and assess the state of the war in Ukraine after Russia's May 9 victory parade commemorating the end of WWII.
239 | Josh Mitchell: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe
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Following up on last week's discussion of how President Biden should approach student debt before the 2022 midterms, Josh Mitchell, author of The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe, joins The Realignment to discuss the past, present, and future of student debt in America.
238 | Gen. Robert Spalding: Can China's "Unrestricted Warfare" Beat the U.S.?
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Marshall speaks with return Realignment guest Retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Spalding, author of War Without Rules: China's Playbook for Global Domination. They discuss and unpack "Unrestricted Warfare," a PLA strategy document from the late 1990s that in Spalding's view, reflects Chinese strategy today, whether the U.S. and China are "enemies," and why he's pessimistic about Taiwan's fate despite the results of the war in Ukraine.
237 | Matthew Continetti: What's the Future of the Right in a Realigning America??
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Marshall and Saagar are joined by Matthew Continetti, author of The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism. Matthew returns to take The Realignment back to its roots and discuss what Trump and Biden era debates on the right mean for 2024 and beyond, who exactly is (and isn't) a conservative, and what makes the current "realignment" moment so unique.
236 | Saagar and Marshall Discuss Musk & Twitter, How Saagar Became Part of the Story, and Biden's Student Debt Forgiveness Decision
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Marshall and Saagar kick off their biweekly one-on-one discussion episodes. They cover the fallout from Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition, how Saagar became part of the story, who's winning the debate over online speech on social media platforms, and how President Biden should respond to calls to cancel student debate.
235 | Mike Solana Returns: A Heretical View of Silicon Valley
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Today, Marshall speaks with Mike Solana, author of the Pirate Wires Substack, VP at Founders Fund, and newly appointed Lincoln Network board member, joins The Realignment to discuss debates over speech on tech platforms, Elon Musk, how Silicon Valley's wealth and power differs from the Gilded Age, and his vision of government's role in society.
234 | Yascha Mounk: Can Diverse and Divided Democracies Survive?
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Today, Marshall speaks with Yascha Mounk, author of THe Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure, joins The Realignment to discuss the unprecedented challenges facing diverse and democratic societies such as the United States and Europe.
233 | Saagar and Marshall Debate Finland and Sweden in NATO, Elon Musk & Twitter, Ukraine, and More
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After Marshall and Saagar recorded yesterday's Breaking Points live show, they recorded the first official expanded Realignment discussion episode. They covered Elon Musk's attempt to purchase Twitter, whether Finland and Sweden should be let into NATO, what America's relationship to Europe should be, and the significance of the sinking of Russia's Baltic Sea flagship.
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232 | Sohrab Ahmari: A Radical Challenge to the American Overclass
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For today's episode, Sohrab Ahmari, founder and editor of Compact Magazine, joins to discuss the newly launched magazine's challenge to elites of the right and left, why the U.S. needs "radical" politics, and how he approaches foreign policy challenges from Ukraine to Taiwan.
231 | David Sacks: The Case for Realism & Non-Interventionism
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230 | Ukraine Series Finale: Fredrik Logevall: Lessons from Pre-WWII JFK for Today
ANNOUNCEMENT: "I'm pretty tired. I think I'll go home now."
229 | Rupert Russell: Commodity Markets and the Making of Our Chaotic World
228 | Seth G. Jones: Irregular Warfare and the Future of Global Competition After Ukraine
227 | Aparna Pande: India's Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World
226 | Saagar's Triumphant Return: Marshall & Saagar Discuss Ukraine and More
225 | Jon Wolfsthal: How Do We Handle Nuclear Weapons After Ukraine?
224 | Dr. Jennifer Sciubba: How the Population Boom & Bust Is Reshaping the World
223 | Sean McFate: The New Rules of War for the Age of Durable Disorder
222 | William Drozdiak: Emmanuel Macron and a Fractured Europe Confront Putin's Russia
221 | Mark Valentine: Can Artificial Intelligence Disrupt the Battlefield?
220 | Robert Farley: Air Wars in Ukraine and Beyond
219 | Amy B. Zegart: Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The Future of U.S. Intelligence After Ukraine
218 | Elbridge Colby: Is Taiwan Next?
217 | Ian Buruma: How the Ghosts of Churchill and Appeasement at Munich Haunt Ukraine
216 | Ian Morris: How Russia's Grand Strategy Drives the War in Ukraine
215 | John Nagl: Russia's Insurgency Problem
214 | Christian Brose: Can the U.S. Military Compete with Russia and China?
213 | Ben Bowman: Unpacking Ukraine + Calling Out The Realignment's Cynicism
212 | Neil Lanctot: How the Legacy of World War I Shapes Our Response to Ukraine
211 | Marshall and Saagar Unpack Ukraine: Peace Deals, Oil Sanctions, Russophobia, and Settling In for the Long-Haul
210 | Hal Brands: What Can the Cold War Teach Us About Modern Conflict with Russia and China?
209 | Demetri Kofinas: What’s Next in Ukraine Part II
208 | Alec Ross: What Happens When Companies Get Involved in Geopolitics?
207 | David Kilcullen: Insurgencies, Resistance, and Russian Strategy and Tactics
206 | Ukraine Emergency Podcast #2: Marshall and Saagar Unpack the Ukraine Crisis
205 | Nate Sibley: Russia's Rulers Aren't Who You Think and What Sanctions Can (and Can't) Do
204 | Jimmy Soni: PayPal and the Origins of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, and David Sacks
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Emergency Podcast: Marshall and Saagar Unpack the Ukraine Crisis
203 | Lisa Miller and Andrea González-Ramírez: What AOC Means for the Future of American Politics
202 | Jeremy W. Peters: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got What They Wanted
201 | Demetri Kofinas: What’s Next in Ukraine?
200 | Kara Frederick: The Right vs. Big Tech, Debating Misinformation, & Nuanced Takes in Un-Nuanced Times
199 | Peter S. Goodman: How Billionaires Devoured the World
198 | Erich Schwartzel: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy
197 | Joseph Weisberg: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War with Russia
196 | Sebastian Mallaby: How Venture Capital and the Power Law Shape the Future
195 | Frank DiStefano: How to Realign American Politics
194 | Extended Q&A + Geoff Cain on Xinjiang’s Police State
193 | Realignment x The Deep End: Saagar Enjeti on Building Breaking Points
192 | Jonathan M. Katz: Reckoning with American Empire + Debating “War Is a Racket”
191 | Glenn Hubbard: Walls vs. Bridges in a Disrupted America
190 | Christopher Leonard: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy
189 | Stephen Marche: Is the U.S. on the Path to Dissolution?
188 | Roy Bahat: How Can We Build a Win-Win Society?
187 | Greg Lukianoff: The Second Great Age of Political Correctness
186 | Anne Helen Petersen and Charlie Warzel: The Problem and Promise of WFH
185 | Mark Yzaguirre: Realignment or Not, Normies Get Votes
184 | Steve LeVine: The U.S. and China’s Great EV Battery War and the Next Supply Chain Crunch
183 | Matt Ridley: Lessons from Investigating the Origins of COVID-19
182 | Alex Kantrowitz: Twitter’s New Leadership, Moving on from the Facebook Whistleblower, and Questions About the Internet’s Future
181 | Kyle Strickland: 20th Century Racial Liberalism’s Reached a Dead End. What’s Next?
180 | The Realignment Conference Part II: Centralization vs. Decentralization and the Future of Populism
179 | Thanksgiving Special: Jeremy Dauber on the History of Comics, Debates Over Diversity/Representation, and the State of Comedy
178 | John McWhorter on Race in America: Third Wave Anti-Racism, Lessons from BLM and Summer 2020, and the Case Against “Woke” Racism
177 | Tim Marshall: How the Power of Geography Shapes 21st Century Flashpoints
176 | ConstitutionDAO’s Julian Weisser and Will Papper: We’re Trying to Buy the Constitution
175 | Michael Shellenberger: How Progressives Failed America’s Cities
174 | Derek Robertson: What’s Next for America’s New Culture Wars
173 | Kyla Scanlon on Everything: The Metaverse, Inflation, Web3, Supply Chains, and more
172 | The Realignment Conference: Antonio García Martínez, Jacob Helberg, and Mike Solana: Technology x Politics, U.S.-China, and Local Politics
171 | Ross Douthat: The Limits of Modern Medicine in a Post-COVID World
170 | Christopher Mims: Inside the Supply Chain Crisis
169 | Johns Hopkins University President Ronald Daniels: What Universities Owe Democracy
168 | Parag Khanna: How Migration and Asia Will Define the 21st Century
167 | Evan Osnos: The Making of America’s Fury and China’s Ambition
166 | Jacob Helberg: What a Tech “Gray War” Means for Taiwan, the U.S.-China Relations, and Geopolitics
165 | Bradley Tusk: How Mobile Voting Could Save Democracy
164 | Andrew Yang: The Case for a New Party, Open Primaries, and Ranked Choice Voting
163 | Eliana Johnson and Chris Stirewalt: The Real Lessons from the 2016 and 2020 Elections
162 | Max Chafkin: What the Rise of the Silicon Valley Right Means for America
161 | Alec Ross: Welcome to the Raging 2020s
160 | Peter Bergen: What the Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden Means for the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy
159 | Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying: How the 21st Century Drove Us All Crazy
158 | Elbridge Colby: Welcome to the Era of Great Power Conflict
157 | Adam Tooze: How Covid Reshaped Capitalism, the Cold War, and Politics
156 | Ben Mezrich: How the GameStop Short Squeeze Brought Wall Street to Its Knees
155 | Mehran Sahami and Jeremy M. Weinstein: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How to Fix It
154 | Jeffrey Selingo: COVID Was Supposed to Change College. Why Didn’t It?
153 | Amy Chua: How Tribalism Set the World on Fire After 9/11
152 | Final Extended Realignment Q&A…For Now
151 | Ret. General Dan Bolger: Why We Lost in Afghanistan and Iraq
A Quick Note for the Season Finale (Back on 8/19)
150 | Theodore R. Johnson: How National Solidarity Can Defeat Racial Division
149 | Spencer Ackerman: How the War on Terror Broke America
148 | Kinsey Grant and Josh Kaplan: What’s the Future of Media Look Like?
147 | Vivek Ramaswamy: Does Politics Have a Place in Corporate America?
146 | Amanda Litman and Pete Davis: If All Politics is National, What Happens Back Home?
145 | Robert Draper: How and Why America Went to War in Iraq
144 | Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang: The Ugly Truth About Facebook
143 | Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell: How Wall Street and Venture Capital Fueled the Great Startup Delusion
142 | Jeff Shesol: What the Billionaire Space Race Means for Cold War II
141 | Bruno Maçães: Geopolitics for the End Time
140 | Antonio García Martínez: America’s Thirty Years’ War
139 | George Packer: How America Fractured and the Way Forward
138 | Katherine Boyle: What’s America’s Problem?
137 | Dr. Julian Zelizer: We Burnt the House Down. Now What?
136 | Josh Rogin: An Honest Conversation About the Wuhan Lab Leak Theory
135 | Alex Kantrowtiz: Can Tech Survive Washington’s Onslaught?
134 | Dr. Eric Weinstein: What Happens Now?
133 | Conor Dougherty: The Housing Crisis vs. the American Dream
132 | Charlotte Alter: Are Millennial Politicians the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For?
131 | Katherine Gehl: Breaking the Duopoly with Political Innovation
130 | Frank DiStefano: Welcome Back to The Realignment
129 | Krystal Ball and Saagar Are Leaving Rising. Here’s What’s Next
128 | Edward-Isaac Dovere: How Joe Biden Proved Everyone Wrong
BONUS | Marshall's New Podcast, The Deep End: Erik Torenberg on the Future of Higher Education
127 | Zachary Karabell: Welcome to the Anti-American Century
126 | Brad Stone: What Does an Unbound Amazon Mean for America?
125 | Emergency Book Recommendation Episode
124 | Niall Ferguson: The Politics and History of Catastrophe
123 | Senator Josh Hawley Part II
Vacation Special: Team Realignment’s Favorite Episodes, Books, and Podcasts
122 | Cade Metz: How Google, Facebook, Elon Musk’s OpenAI, and the U.S. and Chinese Governments Will Shape AI’s Future
121 | Julia Galef: The Path to Thinking Better with the Scout Mindset
120 | Extended Q&A: Yes, We Noticed Hooters Stole Our Theme Song + How You Can Support The Realignment
119 | Zachary Carter: How to Reimagine Capitalism
118 | Dr. Kevin Sabet: 4/20 Special: America’s Decriminalizing Drugs, What’s Next?
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Dr. Kevin Sabet, President and CEO of Smart Approaches to Marijuana and author of Smokescreen: What the Marijuana Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know, joins The Realignment to reflect on the failures and success of the war on drugs, the effects of recent state decriminalization initiatives, his time as a drug policy official in the Bush and Obama administrations, and why the rise of a “commercialized,” multi billion dollar marijuana industry should be a cause for concern for opponents and of decriminalization/legalization alike.
117 | Elliot Ackerman, Part II: What Would a War with China Look Like?
116 | Lisa Napoli: Understanding Media’s Past to Build Its Future
115 | Frank DiStefano: The Next Realignment and Why America’s Parties Are Crumbling + Extended Q&A
114 | Glenn Greenwald: Securing Democracy and the Lessons from Bolsonaro’s Brazil
113 | Jonathan Cohn: Why the Ten Year War Over Obamacare Explains Everything About American Politics
112 | Josh Rogin: Inside Trump, Xi, and Biden’s Battle for the 21st Century
111 | Admiral James Stavridis: What Could a World War with China Look Like?
110 | Alec MacGillis: Winning and Losing in Amazon’s “One-Click” America
109 | Alex Kantrowitz: Are We About to Enter the Roaring 20’s? + Join The Realignment & Big Technology Podcast on Clubhouse on 3/18
108 | Ross Douthat: America Before and After the Pandemic
107 | Michael Brendan Dougherty: Populism’s Just Getting Started
106 | Kevin Roose, Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
105 | Mike Solana: What’s the Matter with San Francisco?
104 | Cal Newport: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communications Overload
103 | Michael Doran: Biden’s Foreign Policy and the Future of Populism
102 | Weston Wamp: Is Washington Rigged?
101 | Ben Fritz: The Fight for the Future of Movies During and After COVID
100 | David Sacks: Recalling Gavin Newsom, U.S.-China Relations, and How to Protect Speech Online
Ep. 99: Mara Hvistendahl, The Scientist and the Spy: China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage
Ep. 98: Balaji Srinivasan, the Coming Decentralization of Everything
Ep. 97 Q&A: Marijuana Legalization, the New Leadership Class, Filibuster 101, & the Origin of The Realignment Theme Song
Ep. 96: Derek Thompson, Robinhood Populism, Coastal Cities in Trouble, & Governing a Fractured America
Ep. 95: EMERGENCY POD: Saagar Enjeti, Marshall Kosloff, And Big Technology’s Alex Kantrowitz Break Down Robinhood, Gamestop, WallstreetBets
Ep. 94: Steven Teles, America’s Factional Future, Elites in Revolt, and What’s Next for NeverTrump
Ep. 93: Lee Drutman, Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop
Ep. 92: Michael Lind, The Failure of Populism and the Class War After Trump + Extended Q&A
Ep. 91: Swati Mylavarapu and Matt Rogers, Reckoning with Silicon Valley’s Power
Ep. 90: Erik Torenberg on Realignments in Tech, Media, and Education
Ep. 89: Eric Weinstein, Reckoning with Capitol Chaos and How to Save America
Ep. 88: Helen Andrews, How Boomers Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster
Ep. 87: Joe Weisenthal Returns! Stimulus Checks, Stocks, Bitcoin’s Surge, and 2020 Finance Recap
BONUS | Ep. 86: A Realignment Podcast About Podcasting with Sachit Gupta
Ep. 85: Reboot | Jennifer Harris Wants to Replace Neoliberalism
Ep 84 Season Finale: Richard Hanania on the Working-Class Realignment Myth
Richard’s National Review Article: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/12/the-working-class-party-myth-and-what-really-motivates-voters/
Richard’s National Populist Illusion Report: https://cspicenter.org/the-national-populist-illusion-why-culture-not-economics-drives-american-politics/#comments
Ep. 83: Alex Kantrowitz on Breaking Up Big Tech, Stock Market Bubbles, and Which Companies Will Win Post-COVID
Ep. 82: Avik Roy Makes the Case for a Centrist Realignment
Governor Rick Perry's Speech on Race: https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2016/07/27/rick-perry-black-lives-matter-and-so-does-black-liberty/?sh=b50b93d4b5c3
Avik's Agenda 2025 Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvpemUOL9QE&t=17m2s
Ep 81: Joe Scarborough on Saving Freedom After WWII and Grappling with the Realignment
Ep. 80: Lisa Napoli on CNN, Ted Turner, and the Future of Cable News
Ep. 79 Q&A: Culture Wars, COVID Lockdown Pushback, Urban vs. Rural America + Subscribe to the Substack!
Ep. 78: Andrew Sullivan, the Best and Worst Case Joe Biden Scenarios
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Ep. 77: Scott Galloway, Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity
Ep. 76: Matt Stoller on Power, Tech, and How to Solve Wealth Gaps
Ep. 75: Anna Khachiyan Stares Into the Abyss
Ep. 74: Jane Coaston Returns to Mythbust the 2020 Election
Ep. 73: Ross Douthat, Lessons for the Right and Left After 2020
Ep. 72: Julius Krein, What’s Next for the Realignment?
Ep 71: Election Realignment Q&A Special
Ep. 70: Dr. Eric Weinstein, The Real Stakes of 2020
Ep. 69: Reboot 2020 | Reeves Wiedeman, What Adam Neumann’s Rise and Fall Means for the Future of Tech
Weideman's book: https://www.amazon.com/Billion-Dollar-Loser-Spectacular-Neumann/dp/0316461369
These sponsored bonus episodes of The Realignment are previews of the conversations that will occur at Lincoln Network’s Reboot 2020 conference on Nov. 6, 9, and 10. Go to rebootconference.org to learn more.
Ep. 68: Chris Buskirk’s Contrarian Case That Trump Will Win
Ep. 67: Chris Arnade, In Defense of Non-Voters
Ep 66: Reboot 2020 | Jarrod Dicker on the Future of Media, Record Labels, and the Rise of Renaissance Creators
Jarrod’s Essays:
https://medium.com/@jarroddicker/media-2020-rise-of-the-renaissance-creator-459daec4bc6b
https://medium.com/@jarroddicker/the-next-media-business-talent-reputation-and-lessons-from-record-labels-e14b695c43b
These bonus episodes of The Realignment are previews of the conversations that will occur at Lincoln Network’s Reboot 2020 conference on Nov. 6, 9, and 10. Go to rebootconference.org to learn more.
Ep. 65: Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds
Ep 64: Zephyr Teachout, The Public and Private Threats to Freedom
Ep. 63: Joe Weisenthal, Is the Economy Totally Screwed?
Joe Weisenthal, Executive Editor of News at Bloomberg Digital and co-host of the Odd Lots podcast, joins The Realignment to discuss the stimulus plan and COVID-19’s economic impact on business, cities, and media.
Ep. 62: Keith Rabois, In Defense of Big Tech
Ep. 61: Jane Coaston, Was Trumpism Even Real?
Ep. 60: Andrew Schulz, Creators Don't Need Corporations Anymore
Ep. 59: Bruno Macaes, History Has Begun
Ep. 58 Q&A: Is Gen Z Up for Grabs?
Ep. 57: Rachel Bovard, The Conservative Civil War Over the Supreme Court and Big Tech
Ep. 56: Dr. Bret Weinstein, The Best Case Against the Two-Party System
Ep. 55: Krystal Ball, Can America Survive the 2020 Election?
Ep. 54: Matt Yglesias, The Case for 1 Billion Americans
Yglesias in New York Magazine: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/08/one-billion-americans-by-matthew-yglesias-book-excerpt.html
Ep. 53: Oren Cass, The Conservative Case for Unions and the Battle for the Soul of the Republican Party
Ep. 52 Q&A: What is Populism and Where Should the Politically Homeless Go?
Ep. 51: Zaid Jilani, the Left Case Against Defunding the Police
Ep. 50: The Realignment x Andrew Yang Crossover
Ep. 49: Jacob Helberg Makes the Case for Joe Biden on China
Ep. 48: Marshall, Saagar, and Emily Jashinsky Debate the Future Of Social Conservatism and the GOP
Ep. 47: Zach Carter, The Future of Left and Right Wing Populism
Ep. 46 Q&A: How Can Republicans Ever Win the Popular Vote Again?
Ep. 45: Nathan Baschez, How Independent Media Can Take on the World
Ep. 44: Joe Lonsdale, Free Speech is Under Attack
Ep. 43: Balaji Srinivasan and Decentralized Media
Ep. 42 RELAUNCH: Senator Marco Rubio, the Republican Who Governed
Ep. 41 Season Finale: FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, Big Tech, China, and the Future of the Right
Ep. 40: Thomas Duesterberg Makes the Case Against Industrial Policy
Ep. 39: Michael Shellenberger's Alternatives to the Green New Deal
Ep. 38: Nick Timothy, the UK's Political Realignment
Ep. 37 Re-Up: Bhaskar Sunkara, Debating the Socialist Manifesto
Ep. 36 Re-Up: Josh Hawley, Realignment Senator
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