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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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The Realignment host Marshall Kosloff and Niskanen Center Senior Fellow Steve Teles are set to appear at WelcomeFest 2026 today in Washington, DC. WelcomeFest is known as the biggest annual gathering of the political center. Steve will appear on a panel titled, "Building Centrist Abundance." Marshall will interview Senator Ruben Gallego and San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins on the center's lack of a broad story and worldview that can respond to an anti-status quo moment. Ahead of their appearances, Marshall and Steve discuss their problems with "moderation," an approach to politics associated with gatherings like WelcomeFest. While defending moderation as a personality and instinct, they differentiate between "higher" and "lower" forms of moderation and offer alternative approaches for politicians, organizations, and movements associated with the idea.
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After President Trump's visit to China with his summit with President Xi Jinping, Eyck Freymann, Hoover Fellow at Stanford University and author of Defending Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War with China, joins The Realignment. Eyck and Marshall to unpack the Taiwan question, America's interests in the island's fate, the One China policy, and the future of U.S.-China competition. They discuss Taiwan’s domestic politics, deterrence, semiconductors, gray-zone conflict, and what the coming years could mean for peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific.
Inclusive Abundance | "Abundance Agenda" Request for Proposals: https://www.inclusiveabundance.org/abundance-in-action/request-for-policy-proposals-the-abundance-agenda?returnUrl=%252Fabundance-in-action
Axios | Exclusive: New group plots 2028 "Abundance" agenda: https://www.axios.com/2026/04/30/abundance-group-democrats-agenda
WelcomeFest 2026 "Building to Win" Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/welcomefest-2026-registration-1982207415740?aff=040726sub
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Congressman Josh Harder joins The Realignment to discuss why Americans increasingly feel the country has stopped working—and what it would take to rebuild trust in government. Harder explains the mission of the bipartisan “Build America Caucus,” why housing affordability has become a generational crisis, and how bottlenecks in permitting, infrastructure, and public administration undermine growth and optimism. Marshall and Josh debate abundance politics, private equity and housing, education reform, USAID, AI-era energy demand, and whether America needs to stop managing decline and start governing for outcomes again. Is the problem ideology—or competence? And can a politics of building restore a sense that the future will be better than the present?
Danielle Lee Tomson with Oxford University Press | Under the Influence: What's Real When America Feels Fake: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/under-the-influence-9780197847862?cc=us⟨=en&
Danielle Lee Tomson Substack | Failure to Communicate: https://failuretocommunicate.substack.com/
Danielle Lee Tomson with the Hewlett Foundation | Weaving a Worldview: https://hewlett.org/library/weaving-a-worldview/
Marshall Kosloff with the States Forum Journal | The Missing Liberal Story: https://www.statesforum.org/the-missing-liberal-story/
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Danielle Lee Tomson, author of the forthcoming Under the Influence What's Real When America Feels Fake, returns to The Realignment. Wrapping-up this season of The Realignment, Marshall begins with an opening monologue summing up his takeaways from the post-2024 election period and what they mean for the future of American politics. Danielle then interviews Marshall about his Missing Liberal Story essay in the States Forum Journal. They discuss how Danielle's "authenticity gap" and book project sync with the need for the political center to tell a coherent story about the country's past, present, and future, why the left-liberal fusion is the path forward, and where the project needs to go next.
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Noam Scheiber, New York Times reporter and author of Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Noam discuss how the rise and fall of the "college-for-all" economic model has left a generation of graduates (and non-graduates) feeling betrayed by the system, how downwardly-mobile college graduates are swinging to the economic left, which universities and government policies are responsible for the student debt crisis, and why the Biden administration's debt forgiveness program wasn't a political winner.
Roosevelt Institute | Building a More Effective, Responsive Government: Lessons Learned from the Biden-Harris Administration: https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/building-a-more-effective-responsive-government/
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Hannah Garden-Monheit, former Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and co-author (with Tresa Joseph, of the Roosevelt Institute's report, Building a More Effective, Responsive Government: Lessons Learned from the Biden-Harris Administration, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Hannah discuss her interviews with 45 former Biden officials on their struggles with state capacity during the administration, why Marshall believes better "central casting" would better illustrate succesful governance, top recommendations for enhancing the federal governments ability to effectively deliver services and accomplish its goals, and the lessons for future state capacity efforts.
American Affairs | Henry Tonks - The Rise and Fall of the New Liberals: How the Democrats Lost Their Majority: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/02/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-new-liberals-how-the-democrats-lost-their-majority/
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Madeline Hart, Co-Founder of Palantir First Breakfast publication and co-author (with Shyam Sankar) of Mobilization: How to Reboot the American Industrial Base and Stop World War III, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Madeline discuss the need for embracing “heretics” in government, the case for “mobilization” as a means of deterring great power conflict and World War III, the roots of defense industry dysfunction in post-Cold War consolidation, and how the American people could materially benefit from investment in national defense.
The States Forum Journal's Latest Issue: https://www.statesforum.org/journals/issue-2/
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Michael Laskawy, Editor-in-Chief of The States Forum Journal, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Michael discuss why Americans are increasingly looking to the states for solutions to their problems, how The States Forum's belief in the "American Promise" as a worldview provides a means for addressing the factional fights within liberalism, and explore the implications of Marshall's States Forum Journal essay on "The Missing Liberal Story."
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Saagar Enjeti, Co-Host of Breaking Points, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Saagar discuss what the escalating conflict between the U.S., Israel, and Iran means for an "America First" movement and MAGA Republican Party that campaigned on promises to end the past two decades of American intervention in the Middle East.
The States Forum Journal | The Missing Liberal Story: https://www.statesforum.org/the-missing-liberal-story/
The States Forum Journal Substack | The Missing Liberal Story: https://statesforum.substack.com/p/the-missing-liberal-story
NYT Article on The States Forum | https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/us/politics/democrats-states-forum.html
Today's episode is an audio essay adapted from Marshall's States Forum Journal piece: The Missing Liberal Story. In the essay, Marshall lays out his case for why he believes liberalism’s most urgent task is to craft a compelling story that resonates with the electorate if there is any hope for changing our politics. The broader States Forum Journal issue focused on "Double Security" and features fourteen essays on federalism, democracy, and the role of states in safeguarding American governance.
Roosevelt Institute | Lessons from YIMBYism: Taking “Abundance” Back to Its Fundamentals: https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/lessons-from-yimbyism/
Niskanen Summer Institute: https://www.niskanencenter.org/niskanen-summer-institute-democracy-that-works/
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Ned Resnikoff, Roosevelt Institute and author of Lessons from YIMBYism: Taking “Abundance” Back to Its Fundamentals, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Ned discuss the history of how YIMBY housing activism led to the broader abundance movement, how Abundance supporters should think about bipartisanship and navigating the various political factions on the left of right who find the ideas relevant, and the relevance of abundance/YIMBY policy tools like regulatory reform and public investment to the goal of increasing supply of vital goods like housing, medical care, and childcare.
Niskanen Summer Institute: https://www.niskanencenter.org/niskanen-summer-institute-democracy-that-works/
Steve Teles | Varieties of Abundance: https://www.niskanencenter.org/abundance-varieties/
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Steve Teles, Niskanen Center Senior Fellow, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Steve discuss how moderates, centrists, and the Abundance movement can navigate the anti-status quo/economic populist moment, why the modern center naturally trends towards milquetoast, aesthetic moderation, instead of boldly picking fights, and how the fights over school reform in the 2000s and 2010s (regardless of one's opinion of charter schools and unions) offer a better model. Plus, Marshall reminds undergraduates in the class of 2026 and later that Niskanen Summer Institute applications are due February 27th.
Liberty and Power: 7 Hard Lessons Democrats Must Learn in 2026
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The Open Market Institute's Austin Ahlman and Ben Winsor join The Realignment. Marshall, Austin, and Ben discuss their recommendations on how to effectively wield economic populism in an anti-status quo moment, when polling is and isn't useful, the complicated realities behind the terms "centrist" and "moderate," populist critiques of the abundance agenda, lessons from FDR's campaigns and presidency, and why the center isn't meeting the moment.
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Laura Field, author of Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Laura discuss the intellectual movement behind Trumpism and the rise of the MAGA New Right, the intellectual branches of the movement: the Claremont Institute, Postliberals, and the National Conservatives, how cultural conflict became the engine of New Right movement-building, the future of higher education, and why the center-left's obsession with "policy" leaves it vulnerable to populist movements with ideas and language that speak to deeper questions of meaning in 21st century America.
New Consensus | Mission for America: https://www.newconsensus.com/mfa
New Consensus | Reading List: https://www.newconsensus.com/library
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Saikat Chakrabarti, President and co-founder of New Consensus, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Saikat discuss why an anti-status-quo moment requires more from government and politics than "making the DMV work better," his framework for moving government from "failure mode" to "mission mode," the politics of immigration after ICE's crackdown in Minnesota and the killing of two American citizens, the return of ideology to Democratic Party circles, and why the center needs to start believing in big goals, and the left needs to embrace pragmatism.
*Gallup, not Axios as cited in episode, reporting on higher liberal identification: https://news.gallup.com/poll/700499/new-high-identify-political-independents.aspx
Niskanen Center Hypertext Substack: Brink Lindsey | Abundance of What - The Permanent Problem Excerpt: https://hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/abundance-of-what-abundance-for-what
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Brink Lindsey, Niskanen Center Senior Vice President and author of The Permanent Problem: The Uncertain Transition from Mass Plenty to Mass Flourishing, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Brink discuss how an intellectual "mugging" from the 21st century drove his evolution from "professional libertarian" to what he calls a "brokeness liberal," why liberal democratic capitalism is in the middle of a legitimacy crisis, how his "captured economy" thesis from 2017 offers an anti-status quo frame for the center-left and center-right, the different interpretations of the word "liberal," the next frontiers of the abundance debate, and the looming challenges and opportunities posed by the rise of AI.
Failure to Communicate Substack: https://failuretocommunicate.substack.com/
Danielle Lee Tomson: https://failuretocommunicate.substack.com/p/the-authenticity-gap
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Dr. Danielle Lee Tomson, author of the Failure to Communicate Substack and the forthcoming Under the Influence: What's Real When America Feels Fake, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Danielle revisit her concept of the "authenticity gap": the growing mismatch between our expectations and lived reality, and its defining role in America's turn to populism, why technocratic campaigning and politics crowds out meaning, culture, and first-order questions, why effective storytelling is a critical candidate and movement skillset, and why the next phase of left-liberal politics will require fusion between feuding camps, not factional warfare.
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George M. Dougherty, author of Beast in the Machine: How Robotics and AI Will Transform Warfare and the Future of Human Conflict, joins The Realignment. Marshall and George discuss how robotics and AI are triggering a military revolution as consequential as mechanization a century ago, why the real story isn't "drones" but "universal precision: a 100-1000x leap in lethality on the battlefield, the need to rethink offense, defense, and initiative, how small states and non-state actors are innovating faster than the U.S. and legacy defense ecosystems, and what today's equivalent of the outmoded WWII battleship is.
Niskanen Summer Institute: https://www.niskanencenter.org/niskanen-summer-institute-democracy-that-works/
The Affordability Framework: https://economicsecurityproject.org/news/introducing-the-affordability-framework-a-tool-for-understanding-americas-affordability-crisis/
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Oliver Libby Forbes Profile: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nelldebevoise/2025/11/11/why-americas-next-big-idea-isnt-about-doing-more--its-about-building-smarter/
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Oliver Libby, civic investor and author of Strong Floor, No Ceiling: Building a New Foundation for the American Dream, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Oliver discuss his post-2024 Strong Floor, No Ceiling framework: a strong floor below which Americans shouldn't fall (healthcare, education, work, housing, opportunity), and no ceiling on aspiration and growth (with rules), why Americans are giving up on the American dream, what a successful national service program would look like (and why previous versions failed to meet their promise), how wealth and power stress the social contract, and why an alternative to MAGA hasn't arrived yet.
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Chris Matthews, former host of MSNBC's Hardball (now on Substack) and author of Lessons from Bobby: Ten Reasons Robert F. Kennedy Still Matters, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Chris discuss Robert F. Kennedy's legacy after last month's 100-year centenary of his birth, what his life, career, and assassination meant for American liberalism, the politics of working-class and rural Americans, RFK's ability to surmount racial divisions, and why authenticity matters more than surface-level branding, as demonstrated by the careers of President Trump, Representative AOC, Senator Bernie Sanders, and Senator John Fetterman.
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Shadi Hamid, Washington Post Columnist and author of The Case for American Power, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Shadi discuss his case for American power despite one's opposition to the country's past and present misuse of power, his intellectual journey from Iraq War protestor to power advocate, why polls find that Democrats and the left-liberals are increasingly unpatriotic, and why Democratic Party elites lacked the credibility to make the strongest case against Trump in 2024.
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The Quincy Institute's William D. Hartung and Ben Freeman, authors of Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at Home, join The Realignment. Marshall, William, and Ben debate and discuss the origins of America's proposed record trillion-dollar Pentagon budget, why the budget spirals upwards despite every 21st-century president's promise to disengage abroad and invest at home, the role of money and corruption in U.S. foreign policy decisions, the proper use of American power abroad, and the origin of our foreign policy debacles in Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza, and Ukraine.
The Atlantic | A Post-Literate Age: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/journalism-literature-media-trump/684752/
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George Packer, Staff Writer at The Atlantic and author of The Emergency, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and George discuss his new work of Fiction: The Emergency, his transition back to fiction after works of journalism in an increasingly post-literate society, the resonance of the book's theme of living through imperial collapse, boredom, and a lack of faith, why the American liberal project feels lost today in an era of populist backlash, and why the themes of his previous books, The Unwinding and Blood of the Liberals, are critical to anyone looking to chart America's path forward.
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Jeffrey Rosen, President of the National Constitution Center and author of The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Jeffrey discuss how debates over Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson's ideas about the power of government has shaped America's political debates since the 18th century, whether our struggle to make government work effectively to accomplish its goals results from too much Jeffersonianism, why political philosophy isn't just an academic interest, and how Presidents Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump's project of attacking the administrative state and the government power will stand the test of time.
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Jake Tapper, CNN host and author of Race Against Terror: Chasing an Al Qaeda Killer at the Dawn of the Forever War, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Jake discuss the saga of the first and only successful prosecution of an Al Qaeda fighter in American courts, why the Obama administration failed to shut down Guantanamo Bay, whether terrorism is best fought by civilian or military means, and the applicability of the post-9/11 approach to fighting terrorism to the Trump administration's airstrikes against Venezuelan boats that the Pentagon claims traffic drugs and cartel organizations in Mexico.
Deciding to Win Report: Deciding To Win – Toward A Common Sense Renewal of the Democratic Party
Semafor: Left-wing ideas have wrecked Democrats’ brand, new report warns
GOP Autopsy Report: RNCreport03182013.pdf
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Last week, Marshall interviewed Reihan Salam, President of the Manhattan Institute, at Newark's Aspen Ideas Festival: Economy. Marshall and Reihan discussed culture's impact on the economy and politics through the lens of immigration. They cover the struggles of multigenerational working-class immigrants facing a new cultural and economic landscape and the right's increasing turn against H1B visas and high-skilled immigration through the lens of Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy's comments about American children choosing sleepovers over hard work.
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Frank DiStefano, author of The Next Realignment: Why America's Parties Are Crumbling and What Happens Next and the Renew the Republic Substack, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Frank discuss why they were attracted to the idea of a "realignment" before it was cool and obvious, why the breakdown of parties and institutions is fundamentally about a "crisis of legitimacy," the importance of building an ideological movement versus focusing on political parties, and why the abundance agenda, especially in its less wonky versions, is a useful vehicle for forcing institutions to answer the "what are we trying to do here," question.
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Giselle Hale, Managing Partner at the Abundance Network and former Mayor of Redwood City, CA, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Giselle discuss Abundance Network's newly announced Abundance Elected Network, a community of local elected officials in city and county government interested in abundance and state capacity. They discuss why the local government version of the abundance discourse is completely different than the national level, think tank and pundit debate, how local officials are operationalizing abundance ideas, and what an outcomes-centered politics could look like.
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Doug Most, author of Launching Liberty: The Epic Race to Build the Ships That Took America to War, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Doug discuss the untold story of the construction of Liberty Ships, the massive cargo vessels that carried tanks, jeeps, food, and ammunition to allied forces in World War II. The conversation explores the parallels between World War II problem-solving and contemporary debates about infrastructure, industrial policy, and the private sector's role in government, the importance of bringing a "problem-solving" approach to government, and how the pragmatic choice of emphasizing "ugly duckling" ships over Hitler's obsession with engineering marvels made all the difference.
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Nancy Scola, reporter and journalist focused on the battle of ideas in Washington, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Nancy discuss the three big ideas-focused conferences in DC in September: The new right National Conservatism Conference, Abundance 2025, and this week's Anti-Monopoly Summit. They cover the competing stories and ideas discussed at these events, the degree to which each convening contradicts the others, the difficult task of holding bipartisan gatherings during a time of polarization and factionalism, and how politicians can use ideas to build their political brands during an era of anti-establishment and voter skepticism.
Failure to Communicate Substack: https://failuretocommunicate.substack.com/
Danielle Lee Tomson: https://failuretocommunicate.substack.com/p/beyond-messaging
Danielle Lee Tomson: https://failuretocommunicate.substack.com/p/the-authenticity-gap
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Danielle Lee Tomson, author of the forthcoming Under the Influence: What's Real When America Feels Fake, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Danielle discuss the right's multi-decade project of participatory, oppositional media, and why the effort culminated in President Trump's 2024 election victory. They unfavorably contrast the center-left's post-2024 response, with its focus on top-down marketing, "ideas" disconnected from a broader story and understanding of the country, highlight the importance of storytelling when it comes to creating the "common sense" that oppositional movements require, and compare and contrast the worldviews and stories of the left, right, and center.
Must-Read on Political Violence in America: Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
Jerusalem Demsas in The Argument on Abundance vs. National Conservatism: A Tale of Two Ballrooms
Steve Teles on "The Varieties of Abundance: Varieties of Abundance - Niskanen Center
New Cascadian Abundance Substack: What is Cascadian Abundance? - by Kelly Jiang
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Steve Teles, Niskanen Senior Fellow and Johns Hopkins University Professor, returns to The Realignment. After a brief note on Charlie Kirk's assassination yesterday in Utah, Marshall and Steve discuss their takeaways from last week's Abundance 2025 Conference in DC, tensions between the left-liberal wings of the Abundance project and the right-wing, "Dark Abundance" crew, the contrast between the dueling Abundance and National Conservatism conferences, and where the broader effort goes next after the previous week's events.
Varieties of Abundance: https://www.niskanencenter.org/abundance-varieties/
PDF Version: https://www.niskanencenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Varieties-of-Abundance.pdf
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Steve Teles, Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center, returns to The Realignment. Ahead of next week's 2025 Abundance in DC, Marshall and Steve discuss his new Niskanen Center paper on "The Varieties of Abundance." In Steve's telling, despite broad agreement within the Abundance movement on the need to increase supply, challenge existing incumbents who benefit from scarcity, and the critical role of enhanced state capacity in addressing America's challenges, there are existing and potential varieties of Abundance across the ideological and geographic spectrums. Just as the late 19th- and early 20th-century Progressive Movement held a shared critique of the industrial-era American state, different actors took the project in different directions. Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, and Woodrow Wilson were all progressives, but operated in separate camps. In Steve's telling, abundance is already operating accordingly. In the paper, he identifies six varieties of Abundance: Red Plenty, Cascadian Abundance, Liberal Abundance, Moderate-Abundance Synthesis, Abundance Dynamism, and Dark Abundance. The aim of the paper is not to be overly inside-baseball, but to offer readers and listeners a framework for understanding the diversity of actors, institutions, and ideologies that have positively engaged with the Abundance framework.
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Dan Wang, Research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover History Lab and author of Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Dan discuss China's quest to become a techno-industrial superpower, how China's "engineering state" contrasts with America's "lawyerly society," why China has successfully built megaprojects vs. America's stalled efforts at industrial policy, high speed rail, and electrification, whether both countries have entered into a cold war, and the downsides of the engineering states top-down control.
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Scott Anderson, author of King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion, and Catastrophic Miscalculation, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Scott discuss the historical legacy of the rise and fall of the Shah of Iran, how the rise of religious fundamentalism reshaped America's relationship with Iran and the broader Middle East, President Carter's misread of the Iranian Revolution in the context of the Cold War, and survey the aftermath of the joint U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran's nuclear program this past June.
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Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker Staff Writer and author of To Lose a War: The Fall and the Rise of the Taliban, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Jon discuss the legacy of America's 20-year war in Afghanistan, how policymakers and the military struggle to define "victory" during wartime, why post-WWII conflicts and the end of the norm of "total war" has made it harder to "win," and why, despite achieving the goal of ending the country's status as a safe haven for terror, eliminating Osama bin Laden, and initially removing the Taliban from power, the U.S. still lost the war.
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Fast Company on Impulse Labs: Innovation by Design 2024: Impulse Labs' new induction cooktop is a step up from your gas stove - Fast Company
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Osita Nwanevu, author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Osita discuss a "re-founding" of America at the level of the post-Civil War Reconstruction Amendments, why the current political system has left many Americans disillusioned with pro-democracy promises and rhetoric, the failure to leverage the 2008 Financial Crisis and 2020 COVID epidemic to force systemic change, and his case for radical reforms to the legislative branch, elections, the workplace, and Supreme Court.
NYT: New Democratic Group Says Answer to the Party’s Woes Lies With the States
States Forum Journal: Adam Pritzker & Daniel Squadron - First Principles in the 11th Hour
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Daniel Squadron, former New York legislator and Co-Founder of the States Forum, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Daniel discuss why the center-left and the Democratic Party lack the kind of coherent worldview of the MAGA right, why real political power and the opportunity to build and test new ideas lies in the states, not just D.C., the importance of ideas vs. "messaging," and the case for centering the themes of representative democracy, fair markets, effective government, and personal freedom at the center of the left-liberal project.
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The Niskanen Center's Steve Teles returns to The Realignment for a wide-ranging discussion about the Democratic Party's evolution during the Trump-era and what lessons it can and can't take from the GOP's experience under Trump. Marshall and Steve unpack how Democratic Party factions - from abundance-focused reformers to the new "Common Sense Democrats" - mirror and diverge from the GOP's 2010s-era "Reform Conservative" movement. They explore the challenge of offering new ideas after rejection at the ballot box, the role of candidates like NYC's Zohran Mamdani, and why signaling change requires taking on your own side.
Can the GOP Be a Party of Ideas? https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/magazine/can-the-gop-be-a-party-of-ideas.html
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Sam Tanenhaus, author of Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Sam unpack Buckley's influence on today's political landscape, how his ideas, debates, and style shaped postwar conservatism, the rise of MAGA conservatism after the 2012 election, the ideas vacuum on the left, and why developing a coherent worldview, beyond following the polls and vibes, matters more than ever post-2024.
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Oren Cass, Founder and Chief Economist of American Compass and editor of The New Conservatives: Restoring America's Commitment to Family, Community, and Industry, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Oren discuss the evolution of the conservative movement since the 2016 election, the fifth anniversary of American Compass, and the organization's new volume covering the new right's perspective on trade, immigration, labor, family, industry policy, technology, and more...
Abundance 2025
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Open Philanthropy Job Posting: Program Associate/Senior Program Associate, Abundance and Growth (Generalist Track) @ Open Philanthropy
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Nancy Scola, Contributing Writer at Politico Magazine, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Nancy discuss the varied factors that determine which new ideas win out in Washington, the role of the mainstream and alternative media ecosystems in shaping politics and policy, the case study of former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan and the revival of the antitrust movement, and which ideas are on the rise in Washington six months into the second Trump administration.
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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.
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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.
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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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
Mark K. Updegrove, President and CEO of the LBJ Foundation, former Director of the LBJ Library and Museum, and author of Make Your Mark: Lessons in Character from Seven Presidents, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Mark discuss the relationship between character, leadership, and greatness in the American presidency, the case for not approaching politicians cynically, the personal stories behind Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and other late 20th century presidents, any why even flawed leaders leave behind admirable traits worth learning from.
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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.
Three Visions of Where Democrats Went Wrong | The Ezra Klein Show - Zephyr Teachout and Saikat Chakrabarti
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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.
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.
https://governorreeves.ms.gov/governor-reeves-statement-on-mississippis-nation-leading-naep-gains-record-achievement/
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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.
Chris Hughes, Co-Founder of Facebook, Chairman of the Economic Security Project, and author of Marketcrafters: The 100-Year Struggle to Shape the American Economy, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Chris discuss the false dichotomy of the "market" vs. "government" when it comes to developing America's economy and critical industries, the need for government to "marketcraft" the economy to achieve the country's social and political goals, the history of marketcrafting from the New Deal and World War II to the auto industry in the 1980s and semiconductors + clean energy in the 2020s,
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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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.
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.
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Cost Disease Socialism: How Subsidizing Costs While Restricting Supply Drives America’s Fiscal Imbalance - Niskanen Center
The rise of the abundance faction - Niskanen Center
The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality: Lindsey, Brink, Teles, Steven M.: 9780190627768: Amazon.com: Books
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Opinion | Steve Bannon on ‘Broligarchs’ vs. Populism - The New York Times
X: Post Religious Right Tweet
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Democrats and Republicans Race to Embrace Populism - The Atlantic
Chris Murphy: America Has Problems That the Free Market Can't Solve - The Atlantic
Opinion | The Senator Warning Democrats of a Crisis Unfolding Beneath Their Noses - The New York Times
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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Noahpinion Substack: Noahpinion | Noah Smith | Substack
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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.
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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
Steve Teles | The Rise of the Abundance Faction: The rise of the abundance faction (niskanencenter.org)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Foreign Affairs | Ro Khanna: The New Industrial Age
New York Times | James Pogue: The Senator Warning Democrats of a Crisis Unfolding Beneath Their Noses
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Aaron Renn on the source of American policy renewal: https://twitter.com/aaron_renn/status/1772976770028904577
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Rise of the Abundance Faction: The rise of the abundance faction (substack.com)
The Future Is Faction: The Future Is Faction | National Affairs
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In the latest edition of The Realignment's weekend Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Saagar and Marshall discuss what its like to start one's career at the DC national security think tank, their thoughts on Japanese culture and status as an American ally, the state of the "Barstool conservatism" phenomenon, why Trump won't pick Tulsi Gabbard as his VP choice, and more...
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Taylor's New Podcast: Vox Media: Podcast Network | Power User with Taylor Lorenz
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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.
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Adam Klein: TikTok Should Be Owned by Americans RealClearPolicy March 18, 2024
Rutgers Report on TikTok: A Tik-Toking Timebomb: How TikTok's Global Platform Anomalies Align with the Chinese Communist Party's Geostrategic Objectives December 2023
Adam Klein Senate Testimony: Protecting Americans' Private Information from Hostile Foreign Powers September 14, 2022
Adam Klein: The Problem with "Disinformation" City Journal July 15, 2022
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In the latest edition of The Realignment's weekend Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Saagar and Marshall discuss the implications of Candace Owens leaving the Daily Wire, Jonathan Haidt's argument that smartphones severely damaged society from 2012 onwards, and respond to Supercast subscriber AMA questions.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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In the latest edition of The Realignment's weekend Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Saagar and Marshall discuss Saagar's Apple Vision Pro review, OpenAI's Sora AI video generation product, and answer subscriber-exclusive questions on the cases for and against Biden and Trump, how to fix the immigration system, their latest reading, and more...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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In the latest edition of The Realignment's weekend Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Saagar and Marshall discuss the state of the GOP Primary moving into South Carolina, the state of the media industry after this week's mass layoffs, the standoff between the Biden administration and Texas, answer audience questions, and more...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 Georgia Tech's Johnny Smith, author of Jumpman: The Making and Meaning of Michael Jordan. Marshall and Johnny discuss how racial politics shaped Michael Jordan's career, the role of sports in society, how American culture shifted during the 1980s and 1990s, and why the country's 1990s-era racial optimism seems to have transitioned into racial pessimism during the 2010s and 2020s.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 written, recorded, or thought about something worth diving into. Today's guest is Garrett M. Graff, a Pulitzer Prize Finalist and author of UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here--And Out There. Marshall and Garrett discuss the history of the UFO and UAP phenomenons, what the government does (and doesn't) know about the topic, and the broader likelihood of whether or not extraterrestrial life has visited Earth.
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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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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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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In this week's edition of The Realignment's Recap and Ask Me Anything, Marshall and Saagar discuss the launch of Israel's invasion of Gaza, response to audience questions, and more...Subscribers to The Realignment's Supercast can access the full version of this episode.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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Paul Krugman: Climate Is Now a Culture War Issue: Opinion | Climate Is Now a Culture War Issue - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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In today's bonus episode for Supercast subscribers, Saagar and Marshall discuss The Realignment's interview with David McCormick, the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War, and take listener questions on everything from Trump's 2024 chances to how one builds policy "consensus" around big issues.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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.
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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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.
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 make the case for his presidential campaign.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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In a crossover episode, Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) and Marshall Kosloff (@makosloff) of The Realignment (@therealignment) join Moment of Zen's Dan Romero (@dwr), Antonio Garcia Martinez (@antoniogm) and Erik Torenberg (@eriktorenberg) for a discussion on tech, politics, and media.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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CSIS Taiwan Wargame Results: The First Battle of the Next War: Wargaming a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan
Steve Blank's Stanford class: EIG's American Dynamism Report
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?)"
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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We cover: Does choosing not to vote lead to change? Saagar and Marshall's advice on deciding to attend graduate school. How do we rank modern presidents? Does Peter Zeihan vindicate the foreign policy establishment? And more...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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For the series finale of The Realignment's daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with Dr. Fredrik Logevall, author of JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956.
They discussed how college-aged JFK, his older brother Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., and their father, Joseph P. Kennedy, then serving as U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, responded to the lead up to World War II in Europe and what we can learn when facing our own international crises today.
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For Day 23 of The Realignment's Daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with Rupert Russell, author of Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World.
They discussed how observing global conflicts and events through the lens of commodity markets, how Chinese coal markets may have empowered Putin pre-invasion, and alternate explanations for notable events over the past two decades, including the 2008 global food crisis, the Arab Spring, the war in Ukraine, and more.
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For Day 22 of The Realignment's Daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with Dr. Seth G. Jones, author of Three Dangerous Men: Russia, China, Iran and the Rise of Irregular Warfare and Senior VP and Director of the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic & International Studies.
They discussed how the conventional military strength of great powers such as the United States and Russia are increasingly challenged by irregular warfare approaches: cyber attacks, the use of proxy forces, propaganda, espionage, and disinformation. While Three Dangerous Men focused on how China, Iran, and Russia favored irregular warfare to challenge the United States, the Ukraine war has demonstrated that irregular warfare presents a serious challenge to any nation's ambitions.
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For Day 22 of The Realignment's Daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with Dr. Aparna Pande, author of From Chanakya to Modi: The Evolution of India's Foreign Policy and Making India Great: The Promise of a Reluctant Global Power.
They discussed India's reaction to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, India's priorities, its ambitions in a multipolar world, and how the country's post-colonial and Cold War history drives its approach to the world.
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For Day 21 of The Realignment's daily Ukraine coverage, Saagar returns to the show for a one-on-one discussion episode with Marshall to discuss recent episodes, developments in the war, and a broader discussion of the launch of CNN+.
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For Day 20 of The Realignment's daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with Jon Wolfsthal, a member of the Science and Security Board at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and a former adviser to President Obama.
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For Day 19 of The Realignment's daily Ukraine and beyond coverage, Marshall spoke with Dr. Jennifer Sciubba, author of 8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World.
They start by discussing the over-hyped idea in the American foreign policy community that Russia's declining population and rising mortality rate signaled the decline of its foreign policy ambitions and then engage in a broader discussion on the implications of lower birthrates in wealthy, industrialized countries and why left and right approaches to push replacement-level family sizes have failed.
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For Day 18 of The Realignment's daily Ukraine and beyond coverage, Marshall spoke with Dr. Sean McFate, professor of strategy at the National Defense University and author of The New Rules of War: How America Can Win--Against Russia, China, and Other Threats.
They discussed Dr. McFate's central argument that conventional warfare no longer furthers broad political objectives, why "peace" as we know it is over, and what Ukraine instructs about what's real and what's hype when it comes to predictions about the future of warfare.
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For Day 17 of The Realignment's daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with William Drozdiak, author of The Last President of Europe: Emmanuel Macron's Race to Revive France and Save the World and Fractured Continent: Europe's Crises and the Fate of the West.
They discussed the degree to which Putin's invasion of Ukraine has (and hasn't) unified a Europe fractured by Brexit, the Syrian refugee crisis, questions of identity, and economic stagnation and the significance of French President Emmanuel Macron's relationship with Putin and his broader project to reform France and revitalize Europe.
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For Day 16 of The Realignment's daily coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Mark Valentine, Head of Federal at Scale AI and Air Force veteran/F-16 pilot, joins to discuss how artificial intelligence/machine learning tools teamed with human analysts will reshape the battlefield and scale the satellite-based reconnaissance that revealed Russia's pre-invasion buildup.
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For Day 15 of The Realignment's daily coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Marshall spoke with Dr. Robert Farley, author of Grounded: The Case for Abolishing the United States Air Force and The Battleship Book. They discussed why Russia has failed to achieve air superiority in Ukraine, the debates over No-Fly-Zones and MiG-29 deliveries to Ukraine, the evolving nature of air combat from WWII to today, and the evolution of fighter aircraft alongside the transition from Generation 4 to 5.
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For Day 14 of The Realignment's daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall talks with Dr. Amy Zegart, author of Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence. Dr. Zegart discusses how the release of classified intelligence before Russia's invasion of Ukraine will reshape geopolitics, how to think about intelligence failures in Afghanistan and Iraq, and provides an overview of the structure and make-up of the U.S. intelligence community.
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For Day 13 of The Realignment's daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with return Realignment guest Elbridge Colby, co-founder of The Marathon Initiative, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development, where he served as the lead official in the development of the 2018 National Defense Strategy.
They discussed what Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the increased focus on the European theater means for Taiwan and America's Pacific positions.
For more on Elbridge's recent book: The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in the Age of Great Power Conflict, check out our episode with him last September: https://podcasts.apple.com/cz/podcast/158-elbridge-colby-welcome-to-the-era-of-great/id1474687988?i=1000535266823&l=cs
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For Day 12 of The Realignment's daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with Ian Buruma, historian and author of The Churchill Complex: The Curse of Being Special, from Winston and FDR to Trump and Brexit.
They discuss how much our judgment of Zelensky, Biden, and Putin's performances are shaped by myths and lessons from Winston Churchill's leadership during World War II, along with mistakes made by the British and French when it came to confronting Hitler in 1938.
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For Day 11 of The Realignment's daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with Stanford University history professor Ian Morris, author of Why the West Rules - For Now, War! What Is It Good For? and the upcoming Geography Is Destiny, joins to discuss his recent piece for Time : The Russian Strategy Guiding the Invasion of Ukraine.
Ian's piece: https://time.com/6155129/russian-strategy-guiding-invasion-ukraine/
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For Day 10 of The Realignment's daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with retired U.S. Army Lt. Col John Nagl, counterinsurgency expert and visiting professor at the U.S. Army War College. John is the author of Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice, Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam and co-authored the U.S. Army and Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual.
They discuss how the study of past insurgencies instructs about Russia's ability to accomplish its military objectives in Ukraine.
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For day 9 of The Realignment's daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall and Saagar speak with Christian Brose, Chief Strategy Officer at Anduril Industries, former Staff Director of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and author of The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare, joins The Realignment to discuss the state of the U.S. military as it faces down peer-competitors like Russia and China.
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For day 8, Ben Bowman, Tigard, Oregon school board chair, candidate for Oregon's House of Representatives, and Marshall's friend from college joins to discuss the Ukraine crisis through the lens of our recent coverage, plus, give a different perspective from Marshall and Saagar and getting engaged in the political system.
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For day eight of The Realignment's Ukraine coverage, historian Neil Lanctot, author of The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams and Their Clash Over America's Future, joins to discuss how the clash between Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Jane Addams over America's entry into World War I shaped the 20th century and redefined America's role in the world.
Neil and Marshall discuss how each figures competing instinct: intervention, neutrality, and pacifism lives on in today's debates.
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Day Seven: Marshall and Saagar continue their one-on-one discussions of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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For day six of The Realignment's near-daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with Hal Brands, author of The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches About Great-Power Rivalry Today, John Hopkins University professor, AEI Resident Fellow, and Bloomberg columnist. They discussed America's successes and failures during the Cold War, how today's Russia and China differ from their 20th-century incarnations, what sacrifices a second cold war will demand, and more.
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For day five of The Realignment's near-daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall speaks with return Realignment guest and host of the Hidden Forces podcast about the current state of the Ukraine crisis
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For day four of The Realignment's near-daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall speaks with return Realignment guest Alec Ross, author of The Raging 2020s: Companies, Country, People - and the Fight for Our Future and The Industries of the Future, joins The Realignment to discuss the factors and policies driving private sector companies into the geopolitical arena.
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For day three of The Realignment's near-daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with Dr. David Kilcullen, a theorist and practitioner of guerilla and unconventional warfare. They cover the present state of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and whether the conflict could transition into a drawn-out war of resistance/insurgency.
Dr. Kilcullen's perspective is drawn from a 25-year career in the Australian Army and postings to the U.S. Defense and State Departments during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He is a professor at Arizona State University and the University of New South Wales and the author of The Dragon and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West, The Ledger: Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan, Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerilla, Counterinsurgency, and The Accidental Guerilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One.
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Yesterday, Marshall and Saagar recorded their second one-on-one episode reacting to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and responding to audience questions. This is a part of The Realignment's daily Ukraine coverage. Submit any questions to realignmentpod@gmail.com.
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Welcome to the first day of The Realignment's near-daily Ukraine coverage.
For our first episode, Marshall interviews Nate Sibley, a Research Fellow at Hudson Institute's Kleptocracy Initiative. His research focuses on authoritarian regimes, transnational corruption, and U.S. national security. They discuss the rise and fall of Russia's oligarchs, why Putin's largely immune to financial sanctions, how economic warfare impacts Russian society, and more.
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Jimmy Soni, author of The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley, joins The Realignment to discuss how the PayPal mafia of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, David Sacks, Reid Hoffman, and countless others shaped Silicon Valley.
Hey everyone, just wanted to say that we pre-recorded tomorrow’s episode on PayPal, Elon Musk, and Peter Thiel before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began. Our producer’s going to be out of pocket, so we weren’t able to record an alternate episode.
However, starting Wednesday, March 2nd, we’re going to significantly up our coverage of the Ukraine crisis.
On Thursday, we’re going to host another Q&A/reaction show, so please send anything to realignmentpod@gmail.com.
Yesterday afternoon, Marshall and Saagar recorded an emergency podcast reacting to Putin's invasion of Ukraine and answered audience questions.
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Lisa Miller and Andrea González-Ramírez authors (among others) of Take Up Space: The Unprecedented AOC, join The Realignment to discuss what AOC’s rise and time in Congress means for the future of the progressive movement, the Millennials and Gen-Zs, and the questions raised by her successes and failures.
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Jeremy W. Peters, author of Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted, joins The Realignment to discuss how the transformation of the Republican Party during the Trump era shattered American politics.
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Demetri Kofinas, host of the Hidden Forces podcast, joins The Realignment to discuss the West’s future relationship with Ukraine, how to shut out the noise and think for yourself, and a broader discussion about the state of American politics and public discourse.
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Kara Frederick, Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation and author of Combating Big Tech’s Totalitarianism: A Road Map, joins The Realignmen to discuss the right’s changing approach to tech, combatting terrorism and misinformation on social media, free speech, and more.
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Peter S. Goodman, author of Davos Man: How Billionaires Devoured the World and Global Economics Correspondent at The New York Times, joins The Realignment to make the case that Wall Street and tech billionaires drove the destabilization and hollowing out of the American and global economy in the lead up to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Erich Schwartzel, film industry reporter at The Wall Street Journal and author of Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy, joins The Realignment to discuss the rise, fall, and future of Hollywood’s relationship with China.
Joseph Weisberg, the creator of FX’s The Americans, former CIA officer, and author of Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War, joins The Realignment to discuss how the U.S. should approach a conflict in Ukraine, how and when a second cold war began, what off-ramps look like, and how to assess and approach complicated issues.
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Sebastian Mallaby, author of The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future, The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan, and More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite, joins The Realignment to offer a contrarian take on the importance of VC funds when it comes to technological progress, how VC-backed startups challenge big tech incumbents, and how China and the U.S. are pursuing different paths when it comes to regulating firms and the tech unicorns they fund.
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Frank DiStefano, author of The Next Realignment: Why America’s Parties Are Crumbling and What Happens Next, returns to The Realignment for the third part of our series on what political realignments are, what they mean for the present, and how we can shape the system moving forward.
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We’re going to start experimenting with extended content on The Realignment. This episode features an extended Q&A section on audience capture, Ukraine, political narratives going into 2024, and whether the U.S. still has a compelling narrative in the 21st century.
After, Geoffrey Cain, a FACET Fellow at Lincoln Network and author of The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future and Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech, joins The Realignment to discuss China’s controversial treatment of its Uyghur population in Xianjiang.
Send us questions for Tuesday’s Realignment Q&A episode: realignmentpod@gmail.com, reply to our Substack newsletter, or leaves us a 5-star review on Apple podcasts.
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Due to a misplaced driver’s license, Marshall’s trip back to NYC was delayed a day, so we, unfortunately, couldn’t record a fresh episode today. Instead, we decided to upload a previous interview from last year where Saagar appeared on The Deep End, Marshall’s other podcast focused on business, tech, and startups.
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Jonathan M. Katz, author of Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Remaking of America’s Empire and The Racket Substack, joins The Realignment to discuss the legacy of General Smedley Butler (the most decorated U.S. Marine in history) through the lens of his involvement in early 20th century interventions in Cuba, the Philippines, China, and Haiti, how we should reflect on America’s imperial legacy in the context of 21st century Chinese and Russian aggression, and how (or should) we evaluate present and future wars under his famous “War Is a Racket” speech/pamphlet.
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Glenn Hubbard, author of The Wall and the Bridge: Fear and Opportunity in Disruption’s Wake, dean emeritus at Columbia Business School, and former chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers, joins The Realignment to discuss why populist “walls” aren’t the right responses to critiques of capitalism and the forces of technological change and globalization. Instead, he advocates for an agenda of “bridges” of preparation and adaption.
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Christopher Leonard, author of The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Powe rin America, and The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business, joins The Realignment to argue that the Federal Reserve’s policies over the past decade have accelerated income inequality and put the country’s economic stability at risk.
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Stephen Marche, author of The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future, joins The Realignment to discuss why he believes America is coming to an end, how the 21st century will make it difficult for nation-states to hold together, and why and how civil conflict could emerge from the country’s divisions.
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Roy Bahat, head of Bloomberg Beta, a venture firm investing in the future of work and former co-chair of New America’s Shift Commission on Work, Workers, and Technology, joins The Realignment to discuss the challenges facing labor and capital, the future of work, and how the technology can (and can’t) redefine questions of representation and ownership.
Greg Lukianoff, President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, joins The Realignment to discuss the differences between debates over political correctness in the 80s/90s and today, how “PC” is different from “wokeness,” and how speech fights play out on college campuses.
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Anne Helen Petersen and Charlie Warzel, authors of Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home and respective writers of the Culture Study and Galazy Brain newsletters, join The Realignment to discuss how work-from-home has ahem realigned the workplace, the great resignation, how financial crisis and pandemics will shape Millenials/Gen Z’s futures, and more.
Writer and attorney Mark Yzaguirre joins The Realignment to discuss our show’s original focus: cultural, economic, and political realignments are reshaping the right and left.
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Steve Levine, editor of The Information’s ‘The Electric’ newsletter and author of The Powerhouse: America, China, and the Great Battery War, joins The Realignment to discuss the global competition to develop electric vehicle batteries, why China dominates the battery supply chains, and the state Tesla, Rivian, and the Big Three legacy automakers.
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Matt Ridley, co-author (with postdoctoral researcher Alina Chan) of Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 and member of the United Kingdom’s House of Lords, joins The Realignment to discuss lessons from leading a decentralized scientific investigation into COVID’s origins, how the leading scientific journals, mainstream outlets, and governments have helped or stymied the investigation, what we currently do and don’t know about COVID’s origins, and why it matters.
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Alex Kantrowitz, writer and host of the Big Technology Substack newsletter and podcast, returns to The Realignment to discuss post-Jack Dorsey Twitter, why the discourse’s moving on from Frances Haugen’s Facebook whistleblowing, and how to think about the transition from Web2 to Web3.
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Kyle Strickland, Deputy Director, Race and Democracy at the Roosevelt Institute joins The Realignment to build upon last week’s episode with John McWhorter.
Kyle is the co-author of a new report: A New Paradigm for Justice and Democracy: Moving Beyond the Twin Failures of Neoliberalism and Racial Liberalism. In this episode, he discusses the past, present, and future of the civil rights movement, the tie between race and class, and how 20th-century paradigms no longer provide the framework for governing the United States.
Kyle Strickland and Felicia Wong’s paper on race and neoliberalism: https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/new-paradigm-for-justice-and-democracy-moving-beyond-the-twin-failures-of-neoliberalism-and-racial-liberalism/
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Today we’re featuring excerpts from our Realignment conference in Miami. The James Madison Institute’s Andrea O’Sullivan and Wired’s Gilad Edelman on the tensions between centralization and decentralization will define tech and politics. American Affairs’s Julius Krein, American Compass’s Wells King, and the Niskanen Center’s Samuel Hammond and the new right, populism, and the debate over neoliberalism.
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Happy Thanksgiving Realignment listeners! From now on, whenever we release on holidays, we’re going to release (probably) non-political content that captures the holiday’s spirit and Marshall and Saagar’s interests.
High on our priority list today/this weekend is catching up on all the different movies/shows we’ve missed this and last year, many of which are comic book-themed.
In that spirit, today’s guest, Jeremy Dauber, professor of Jewish Literature and American Studies at Columbia University and author of American Comics: A History and Jewish Comedy: A Serious History, joins The Realignment to discuss the past, present, and future of American comics, why we’re stuck in a sequel/reboot spiral, and how culture war debates over diversity and representation are playing out in the pages of major comics.
John McWhorter, Columbia University professor, New York Times columnist, and author of Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America, joins the Realignment to discuss the state of civil rights discourse in America and how the country can move past our post-Summer 2020 stalemate.
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Applications for Lincoln Network’s FACET Fellowship close on November 30, 2021.
Tim Marshall, author of The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World, The Age of Walls: How Barriers Between Nations Are Changing Our World, and Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World, joins The Realignment to discuss how the flashpoints, conflicts, and questions that will define the 21st century through a geographic lens.
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Will Papper, co-founder of SyndicateDAO and Julian Weisser, On Deck co-founder and ODX investor, join The Realignment to discuss their work as contributors to ConstitutionDAO to purchase one of 11 surviving copies of the U.S. Constitution from a Sotheby’s auction this Thursday via a decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO. They discuss their interest in Web3 projects, how Web3 concepts like DAO can fix the internet, and why decentralized organizational models hold so much promise.
For more on ConstitutionDAO and additional Web3 resources:https://www.constitutiondao.com/
Packy McCormick, Let’s Buy the Constitution: https://www.notboring.co/p/lets-buy-the-us-constitution
Jack Raines, We the Peopl3: https://youngmoneyweekly.substack.com/p/we-the-peopl3?r=lpgtd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=
Michael Shellenberger, author of San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities, returns to The Realignment to argue that progressive governance has failed on its own terms to address, why he still considers himself a “liberal” even though many on the right are inclined to agree with his critiques, how to address homelessness and housing shortages, and more...
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Derek Robertson, Contributing Editor to Politico Magazine, joins The Realigment to discuss what Glenn Youngkin’s Virginia gubernatorial upset means for the future of American politics, how new culture wars over race and education differ from 1990s-2000s fights of gay marriage and abortion, and how President Biden and Democrats will cope.
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Kyla Scanlon, prominent TikTok and YouTube financial analyst, joins The Realignment to discuss the emerging issues and ideas of the moment: Facebook’s pivot to the metaverse, the inflation debate, the promise (and need for clarifty about) Web3, what some see as the internet’s next evolution, the continuing supply chain crunch, and much, much more.
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Today we’re featuring excerpts from our Realignment conference in Miami.
Antonio García Martínez on how culture, economics, and politics are downstream from technology. Jacob Helberg on his book: The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power. Mike Solana on local politics when everything’s hyper-nationalized.
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Ross Douthat, New York Times columnist and author of The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery, returns to The Realignment to discuss his struggle with Lyme disease, the push and pull between what the medical establishment does and doesn’t know, and what it all means for COVID era debates about misinformation/censorship, treatment options, and alternative care.
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Christopher Mims, author of Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door -- Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy and Wall Street Journal technology columnist, joins The Realignment to tell the story of the worldwide supply chain crunch, from the 2018 trade war between China and the U.S. to the decline of the trucking industry.
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Ronald Daniels, President of Johns Hopkins University and author of What Universities Owe Democracy, joins The Realignment to discuss the role of the university system in American democracy, the degree to which it does (or doesn’t) live up to its promise, and answers the critiques of skeptics of the American higher education system.
Parag Khanna, Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap and author of Move: The Forces Uprooting Us and The Future Is Asian: Commerce, Conflict & Culture in the 21st Century, joins The Realignment to discuss how the unprecedented mass movement of individuals and the rise of Asia and the relative decline of Europe and North America will impact the future politics, business, culture, and technology.
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Evan Osnos, author of Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury, Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now, and Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, and staff writer at The New Yorker, joins The Realignment to discuss the state of the U.S. and China and what Joe Biden’s presidency means for both countries.
Jacob Helberg, senior adviser at the Stanford University Center on Geopolitics and Technology, former news policy lead at Google, and author of The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power, joins The Realignment to discuss how technological conflict will reshape the world order, describes the hidden back-end battle to control the internet’s hardware, and the past, present, and future of U.S.-China relations through the lens of a potential conflict over Taiwan.
Bradley Tusk, CEO and co-founder of Tusk Ventures, author of The Fixer: My Adventures Saving Startups from Death by Politics, and host of the Firewall podcast, joins The Realignment to make the case for using mobile to radically increase political participation and move beyond crippling political dysfunction in Washington, D.C.
Andrew Yang, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate and author of Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy, joins The Realignment to discuss the Forward Party and why he thinks open party primaries and ranked choice voting are the keys to ending political gridlock in Washington.
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Cohosts of the Ink Stained Wretches podcast, Eliana Johnson, Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Free Beacon, and Chris Stirewalt, Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Contributing Editor of The Dispatch, join The Realignment to discuss the state of the media, the takeaways from the 2004-2020 elections, and the future of conservatism.
Max Chafkin, author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power and Bloomberg Businessweek reporter, joins The Realignment to discuss the past, present, and future of Silicon Valley and America through.
Alec Ross, author of The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future and The Industries of the Future, joins The Realignment to discuss how the 2020s will be defined by the breakdown and reforging of our social contract, what we can learn from 19th-century tumult during industrialization, and the importance of defining the role increasingly powerful corporations will play in the 21st century.
In the last episode of The Realignment’s post 9/11 era foreign policy series, Peter Bergen, author of The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden and Vice President at New America, joins to discuss how Osama bin Laden’s worldview, actions, and strategies defined the post-Cold War world and how he was ultimately undone by his inability to understand how the U.S. would react to 9/11, for good for ill.
Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying, co-hosts of The DarkHorse Podcast, James Madison Program Visiting Fellows at Princeton University, and co-authors of A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life, join The Realignment to discuss how an increasingly “hyper-novel” 21st century is pulling our lives and societies apart.
Elbridge Colby, co-founder of The Marathon Initiative, former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Strategy and Force Development at the Defense Department, and author of The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict, joins The Realignment to discuss the War on Terror’s legacy, how great power conflict will change U.S. foreign policy, and it will reshape the military and American society as a whole.
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Adam Tooze, professor of history at Columbia University and author of Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy and Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, joins The Realignment to discuss how Covid reshaped capitalism, geopolitics, the U.S. vs. China, and more...
Ben Mezrich, author of The Accidental Billionaires (adapted into The Social Network, Bitcoin Billionaires, and The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders that Brought Wall Street to Its Knees, joins The Realignment why he believes WallStreetBets represents the first shot in a revolution that could upend the entire financial system.
Mehran Sahami and Jeremy M. Weinstein, Stanford University professors and co-authors (with Rob Reich) of System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot, join The Realignment to discuss their new approach to empowering users, citizens, and technologists, and founders to develop new approaches to the tech industry’s future.
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Jeffrey Selingo, special advisor for innovation and professor of practice at Arizona State University and author of Who Gets In & Why: A Year Inside College Admissions, joins The Realignment as a new school year kicks off to discuss COVID’s effect in higher education, plus, debates over affirmative action, endowments, and student debt.
Amy Chua, professor at Yale Law School and author of Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, and Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, joins The Realignment to discuss how political and ethnic tribalism undermines American foreign policy and domestic politics.
Before we get back to our regularly scheduled programming on Thursday, we’re kicking this season off with the last extended Q&A episode for the foreseeable future.
We’re working on the Realignment’s format this season, so be sure to tune in for more
Retired General Dan Bolger, author of Why We Lost: A General’s Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, joins The Realignment’s season premiere to discuss the rise and fall of America’s post-9/11 military interventions.
As of today, The Realignment’s released more than 150 episodes, so we’re taking a quick break today. If you’re new, go back and check out our previous episodes!
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Theodore R. Johnson, author of When the Stars Begin to Fall: Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of America and Senior Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law, joins The Realignment to discuss race in America through debates over America’s “original sin,” reparations, policing, political preferences, and more...
Spencer Ackerman, writer of the Forever Wars Substack, Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and and Produced Trump, and contributing editor at The Daily Beast joins The Realignment to discuss the post-9/11 era, the legacy of the War on Terror, and the Biden administration’s plans to withdraw from Afghanistan in September.
Kinsey Grant and Josh Kaplan, co-founders of Thinking Is Cool, join The Realignment to discuss the best ways to podcast and build media companies in 2021, debate whether billionaires should exist, whether platforms like Spotify should police their star’s content, and what the successor to cable news could look like.
Vivek Ramaswamy, Executive Chairman of Roivant Sciences and author of Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam, joins The Realignment to debate whether companies should take stands on issues like Black Lives Matter, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other political issues, the social contract between corporations and the public, and the role of identity in a hyper-polarized America.
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Amanda Litman, co-founder of Run for Something, and Pete Davis, co-founder of the Democracy Policy Network, join The Realignment to discuss Statehouse Futures, their progressive policy and strategy, one of the largest convenings of state and local leaders of the year, why progressives and Democrats have struggled locally the last decade, and how down-ballot candidates should approach culture war issues such as the debate over Critical Race Theory and policing.
Robert Draper, writer at large for The New York Times Magazine and author of To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq, joins The Realignment to discuss the process that led President Bush to make one of the worst foreign policy decisions in American history.
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Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang, technology reporters at The New York Times and authors of An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination, join The Realignment to discuss Facebook’s fall from grace, whether antitrust action will address complaints about tech companies, and the future of social media platforms after Trump.
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Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell, authors of The Cult of We: Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion and Wall Street Journal reporters, join The Realignment to discuss what the rise and fall of Adam Neumann’s WeWork says about venture capital, Wall Street, startups, and the future of commercial real estate after COVID-19.
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Jeff Sheshol, author of Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War and founding partner at West Wing Writers, joins The Realignment to discuss Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson’s ambitions, how to balance private and public interests in space, and how the space race between NASA and the Soviet Union can help us understand competition between the U.S. and China in the 2020s.
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Bruno Maçães, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and author of The Dawn of Eurasia, Belt and Road, History Has Begun, and the forthcoming Geopolitics for the End Time: From the Pandemic to the Climate Crisis, returns to the Realignment to discuss the transformation of the international system before, during, and after COVID-19, and how the U.S. can accommodate the new status-quo.
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Antonio García Martínez, author of The Pull Request Substack and Chaos Monkeys; Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley, joins The Realignment to discuss tribalism in America, how social media fuels in-person (and virtual) conflict, the upending of the advertising industry, debates about online privacy, and what the invention of the printing press and religious conflicts tells us about polarization in America today.
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George Packer, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of The Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal and The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, joins The Realignment to discuss how America fractured into four parts and how it can come back together again.
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Katherine Boyle, partner at General Catalyst, joins The Realignment to discuss the prospects for America’s renewal, how the finance and tech diminished interest in public service, and what D.C. and Silicon Valley can learn from each other.
Dr. Julian Zelizer, Princeton professor and author of Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party, joins The Realignment to discuss the state of the Republican Party, how former Speaker Newt Gingrich changed the course of Congress, and how ambitious politicians rise to power.
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Josh Rogin, author of Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century and Washington Post columnist, returns to The Realignment to discuss the continued development of the COVID-19 Wuhan lab leak theory and what the story means for U.S.-China relations, the scientific community, media, domestic politics, and content moderation.
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Today’s episode is a crossover between The Realignment and Alex Kantrowitz’s podcast/newsletter Big Technology.
Alex Kantrowitz returns to The Realignment to discuss the five new bills targeting big tech companies, what Lina Khan’s appointment as chair of the Federal Trade Commission means for the the industry, what the Wuhan lab-leak theory means for the future of content moderation, and whether conservatives get a fair shake on social media platforms.
Dr. Eric Weinstein, host of “The Portal” podcast and managing director at Thiel Capital, makes his third Realignment appearance to discuss where Marshall and Saagar should take The Realignment and Breaking Points, returning heterodox viewpoints to institutions, and why and how those who’ve tried to do so have failed so far.
Conor Dougherty, author of Golden Gates: The Housing Crisis and a Reckoning for the American Dream and New York Times economics reporter, joins The Realignment to unpack the housing crisis, the connection between homelessness and affordability, NIMBYs vs YIMBYs, and what a backlash to policies that increase construction could look like.
Charlotte Alter, a Time national correspondent and author of The Ones Weve Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America joins The Realignment to discuss the careers and impact of the first millennials to hold political office, the prospects for both parties over the next few decades, and whether social media era politicians have the skills to actually address big problems and advance their agendas.
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Katherine Gehl, author of The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy and founder of The Institute for Political Innovation joins The Realignment to discuss why Washington isn’t actually broken, and instead operates exactly as it was designed, why an increasing number of people feel politically homeless, and how to restore competition to the political system.
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Frank DiStefano, author of The Next Realignment: Why America’s Parties Are Crumbling and What Happens Next, returns to The Realignment to define what realignments are (and aren’t), how either political party could collapse, and why our system isn’t ready to face the 21st century.
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Krystal Ball and Kyle Kulinski of Krystal Kyle & Friends join The Realignment for a crossover episode to announce the launch of Saagar and Krystal’s new YouTube show/podcast, Breaking Points, launching on June 7th.
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Marshall’s launched a new podcast with On Deck. Go to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-deep-end/id1568752165 to check out the first three episodes with Balaji Srinivasan, Erik Torenberg, and Katherine Boyle and leave a five-star review on Apple podcasts.
Edward-Isaac Dovere, author of Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats’ Campaigns to Defeat Trump and staff writer at The Atlantic, joins The Realignment to discuss how the Trump presidency changed the Democratic Party, how the Obama presidency left the party in shambles, and Joe Biden’s victory means for a realigning America.
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Zachary Karabell, author of Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power, joins The Realignment to discuss the rise of American finance, the rise and fall of “the establishment,” America and China’s long divorce process, and why American’s will have to adjust to being a “normal” country moving forward.
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Brad Stone, Senior Executive Editor for Global Technology at Bloomberg News and author of Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire, joins The Realignment to discuss the challenges, impact, and scope of Jeff Bezos and Amazon’s ambitions in cloud computing, streaming services, news media, retail, politics and more.
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Due to a last-minute booking snafu (and a lack of backup episodes), we’re releasing a book recommendations update episode instead of our usual programming. Don’t worry, we’ll be back with new content the rest of the week
Niall Ferguson, author of Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, joins the show to discuss why some societies fall apart while others rise in the face of doom, how a Cold War between the U.S. and China could lead to catastrophe, and analyze the pathologies facing modern America through the lenses of imperial decline, finance, institutional decline, and social fragmentation.
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Senator Josh Hawley returns to The Realignment to discuss the right’s fraying relationship with the tech industry and what antitrust enforcement can (and can’t), accomplish.
We’re on vacation this week, but rather than not publish anything, we’re releasing a special episode featuring the entire team that puts together the show.
Join Marshall, Saagar, Phil, James, and Emma for episode, book, and podcast recommendations to hold you over until next week.
Cade Metz, technology correspondent with The New York Times and author of Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World, joins The Realignment to discuss the past, present, and future of AI and the actors and players that will shape the technology’s future.
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Julia Galef, author of The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t and host of the Rationally Speaking podcast, joins The Realignment to make the case for embracing the “scout” mindset in order to make better decisions and avoid tribalism and wishful thinking, as opposed to the knee-jerk bias of the “soldier” mindset.
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Marshall and Saagar answer the backlog of Realignment Qs on the impact of a U.S. withdrawal from the Middle East and Central Asia, whether you need elite credentials to impact policy in D.C., how to skeptically discuss marijuana without sounding like a NARC, how to support the show (financially or otherwise), and more...
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Zachary Carter, Writer in Residence at the Omidyar Network and author of The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes, returns to The Realignment to discuss the government response to COVID, how capitalism will and won’t change after the pandemic, and how economic policy debates played out over the past three decades.
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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.
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Elliot Ackerman, co-author of 2034: A Novel of the Next World War and Marine combat veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, joins The Realignment to follow up on the pod’s conversation with Admiral James Stavridis, the legacy of the “forever” wars in the Middle East and Central Asia, what history teaches us about a future U.S.-China conflict, and of course, the weakened state of the two-party system.
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Lisa Napoli, author of Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR and Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News, returns to The Realignment to discuss the past, present, and future of the news media, and why the challenges and opportunities facing the industry today perfectly rhyme with those of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
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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 explain why realignments are a regular feature of American politics, the need to move beyond 20th century debates between conservatives and liberals, and why the collapse of the current party system will lead to renewal and reform.
Glenn Greenwald, Co-Founder of The Intercept and author of Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s Brazil, joins The Realignment to discuss the past, present, and future of Brazil, America’s involvement in Latin America during and after the Cold War, and the legacy of the Edward Snowden leaks.
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We’ve built a special Bookshop selection on Obamacare, healthcare, and Medicare for All: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-episode-113-obamacare-healthcare-reform-and-the-medicare-for-all-debate
Jonathan Cohn, a senior national correspondent at HuffPost and the author of The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Care, joins The Realignment to offer the definitive account of Obamacare’s successes and failures, the history of healthcare reform in America, and what the law’s survival despite countless attempts at repeal and unified Republican control of government says about the state of both parties.
We’ve built a special booklist selection of 10 books to understand the U.S. and China: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-episode-112-u-s-china-book-list
Josh Rogin, Washington Post columnist and author of Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the 21st Century, joins The Realignment to discuss U.S.-China relations under Obama, Trump, and Biden, how Trump and the CCP’s leadership misunderstood each other, why both country aren’t in a state of cold war, and more...
Realignment Bookshop list of Admiral Stavridis and Elliot Ackerman’s book recommendations on the U.S. and China: https://bookshop.org/lists/2034-admiral-james-stavridis-and-elliot-ackerman-book-recommendations
Admiral James Stavridis, former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO and co-author (with Elliot Ackerman) of 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, joins The Realignment to offer a warning about the consequences “sleepwalking” into a military conflict with China along with the legacies of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and how dysfunction in the U.S. political system impacts foreign policy.
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Alec MacGillis, senior reporter for ProPublica, joins The Realignment to discuss Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America, how the rise and dominance of Amazon tells the story of 21st century America, and the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on educations and workers.
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Alex Kantrowtiz, writer and host of the Big Technology newsletter and podcast, rejoins The Realignment to discuss our new collaboration on Clubhouse and whether the (knocks on wood) post COVID 2020’s will be the new Roaring 20’s.
Ross Douthat, New York Times columnist and author of The Decadent Society: America Before and After the Pandemic, returns to The Realignment to discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic will lead America towards catastrophe, renaissance, or further decadence.
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Michael Brendan Dougherty, Senior Writer at National Review, Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and author of My Father Left Me Ireland, joins The Realignment to unpack the state of populism in the West, make the case for natalism, and discuss the challenges of the Biden era.
Kevin Roose, technology columnist for The New York Times and host of “Rabbit Hole,” joins The Realignment to discuss how automation will change the workplace, why white-collar workers should fear for their jobs, and how to deal with America’s “reality crisis.”
Mike Solana, author of the Pirate Wires Substack newsletter and Vice President at Founders Fund, joins The Realignment to discuss San Francisco’s fractious relationship with the tech industry, the importance of local politics, and what individuals and industries owe their communities.
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Cal Newport, author of A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload, joins The Realignment to discuss how email broke the workplace, remote-work during COVID, and how to pursue “digital minimalism” and “deep work.”
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Michael Doran, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and cohost (with Marshall) of the new Counterbalance podcast, joins The Realignment to discuss the state of populism after 2020, the Biden administration’s approach to foreign policy, and why the Republican Party fails to govern.
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Weston Wamp, Senior Political Strategist at Issue One and host of the Swamp Stories podcast, joins The Realignment to discuss campaign finance reform, corruption in Washington, and the future of the national debt.
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Ben Fritz, author of The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies and West Coast Bureau Chief for U.S. News at The Wall Street Journal, joins The Realignment to discuss how the past, present, and future of Hollywood and emerging streaming platforms.
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David Sacks, co-founder and general partner at Craft Ventures and cohost of The All-In Podcast, joins The Realignment to discuss the case for recalling California Governor Gavin Newsom, the tech industry’s future in China, and the future of online speech.
Mara Hvistendahl, investigative reporter at The Intercept, joins The Realignment to discuss her book, The Scientist and the Spy (a Realignment best book of 2020), U.S.-China relations under Obama, Trump, and Biden, industrial espionage, and the past, present and future of the FBI.
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Balaji Srinivasan, angel investor, entrepreneur, and former CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen Horowtiz, returns to The Realignment to discuss the world after COVID-19, why decentralization is inevitable, and the future of Asia.
Join Marshall and Saagar for the February edition of Realignment Qs: Will the Biden administration legalize marijuana? What would happen if China invaded Taiwan? How did the team pick The Realignment’s theme song? How would Tulsi Gabbard fare in the 2024 election? And more….
Derek Thompson, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins The Realignment to discuss the aftermath of the Robinhood controversy, the effect of remote work on major cities, and technology’s role in the disappearance of a shared American reality.
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Alex Kantrowitz, author/host of the Big Technology Substack/podcast, joins The Realignment for an emergency explainer of the Gamestop fiasco.
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Marshall and Saagar on this week’s Big Technology podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u-s-tech-after-trump-conversation-realignments-marshall/id1522960417?i=1000506775660
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Steven Teles, Johns Hopkins University professor, senior fellow at the Niskanen Center, and author of Never Trump: The Revolt of the Conservative Elites, joins The Realignment to discuss how political moderates can win again and what’s next for Never Trumpers.
Lee Drutman, senior fellow in the Political Reform program at New America and author of Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America, joins The Realignment to make the case that the two-party system is wrecking American democracy.
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Michael Lind, author of The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite, returns to The Realignment to discuss the end of the Trump administration, and the start of the Biden presidency. He also expands on his formulation that “neoliberalism is the disease, populism is the symptom, and democratic pluralism is the cure.”
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Swati Mylavarapu and Matt Rogers, co-founders of Incite, join The Realignment to discuss Silicon Valley after Trump, campaign finance reform, the future of the Democratic Party, and the challenge of fixing broken systems when one benefits from the status quo.
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Erik Torenberg, co-founder and partner of Village Global, an early stage venture capital firm, host of the Venture Stories podcast, and founder of On Deck, joins The Realignment to discuss the future of the tech industry, the challenges facing higher education, and individual creators vs. legacy media.
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Eric Weinstein, host of “The Portal” podcast and managing director at Thiel Capital, returns to The Realignment to discuss the state of the U.S. after the riot at the U.S. Capitol.
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Helen Andrews, a senior editor at The American Conservative and author of Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster, joins The Realignment to discuss the failed legacy of the Baby Boom generation and the world that Millennials and Gen-Z will inherit.
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Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg Editor and co-host of The Odd Lots Podcast, rejoins The Realignment to discuss stimulus checks, the government’s economic response to the pandemic, cryptocurrencies, and more.
Before The Realignment returns on Tuesday, January 4th, join Marshall, Saagar, and Sachit Gupta, Program Director of the On Deck Podcasting Fellowship, for a conversation about the future of podcasting, plus tips for starting and running your own podcast.
More info on Sachit’s On Deck Podcasting Fellowship: https://www.beondeck.com/podcasters
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Jennifer Harris, Director of the Hewlett Foundation’s Economy and Society Initiative, joins The Realignment to discuss her new initiative to support efforts to replace neoliberalism and develop a new approach to addressing society’s biggest challenges.
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
Find Alex:
Substack: https://bigtechnology.substack.com/
Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/big-technology-podcast/id1522960417
Reads: Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever
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
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Joe Scarborough, former Congressman and creator of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, joins The Realignment to discuss his new book Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization, why political outsiders fail in Washington, and covering politics during and after the Trump era.
Lisa's Book: Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News
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Scott Galloway, Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern, serial entrepreneur, and author of Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity, joins The Realignment to discuss the future of business, government, and technology after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Matt Stoller, Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project, returns to The Realignment to discuss the prospects for a Biden administration, wealth gaps, and lessons from the Obama presidency.
Anna Khachiyan, cultural commentator and co-host of the Red Scare podcast, joins The Realignment to discuss why she dislikes politics and labels, who wields power in American society, and what’s cringe about the left and right.
Jane Coaston, newly announced host of The New York Times’ The Argument podcast, rejoins The Realignment to unpack the 2020 election.
Ross Douthat, New York Times columnist and author of The Decadent Society: How We Became Victims of Our Own Success, rejoins The Realignment to discuss the 2020 election and its aftermath, and the path forward for Republicans and Democrats.
Julius Krein, editor of American Affairs, joins The Realignment discuss the 2020 election results, Trump’s gains with minority voters, class warfare, and whether the parties will continue to realign.
Join Marshall and Saagar for a special election 2020 edition of Realignment Qs: Were the Realignment hosts Neoliberals all along? Why won’t backlash to the COVID-19 lockdowns swing the election to Trump? How should we approach climate change and the administrative state? And more.
Dr. Eric Weinstein, host of “The Portal” podcast and managing director at Thiel Capital, joins The Realignment to discuss what’s at stake in the 2020 election and why he’s focused on 2024.
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.
Chris Buskirk, editor and publisher of the journal American Greatness and contributing opinion writer at The New York Times, joins The Realignment to discuss polling, why he’s optimistic about a Trump victory, and the ways that Trump will change the GOP.
Chris Arnade, author of Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America, rejoins The Realignment to discuss the 100 million non-voting Americans, whether populism is doomed to fail, and why his time as a Wall Street banker in emerging markets makes him pessimistic about America’s future.
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.
Douglas Murray, author of “The Madness of Crowds” and “The Strange Death of Europe,” joins The Realignment to discuss the 2020 election, the meaning of Brexit and Trump’s 2016 election, and the past, present, and future of the culture wars.
Professor, attorney, and political activist Zephyr Teachout joins The Realignment to discuss the nature of power, how to check private and public power, and her progressive case for decentralization.
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.
Keith Rabois, General Partner at Founders Fund and outspoken Silicon Valley investor, joins The Realignment to discuss the 2020 election, Supreme Court packing, conflict between the U.S. and China, and debates over tech and antitrust.
Jane Coaston, Senior Politics Reporter at Vox, rejoins The Realignment to discuss the past, present, and future of populism, and the role of class and identity politics in the 2020 election.
Andrew Schulz, comedian and host of the Flagrant 2 podcast joins The Realignment to discuss why tv comedy isn’t funny anymore, why creators are breaking with the mainstream media, and the 2020 election.
Bruno Macaes, a senior advisor at Flint Global, and a non-resident senior fellow at the Hudson Institute joins The Realignment to discuss his new book, History Has Begun: The Birth of a New America.
Marshall and Saagar answer Realignment Qs about Gen Z’s political leanings, how to think about the CCP, Twitter as real life, and who they plan to book on the podcast.
Rachel Bovard, Senior Director of Policy at the Conservative Partnership Institute, rejoins The Realignment to discuss the Supreme Court, the future of social conservatism, and the TikTok deal.
Dr. Bret Weinstein of the Unity 2020 campaign and the Dark Horse podcast joins The Realignment to discuss his plan to upend the two-party duopoly, why he fears for the country’s future, and uses his background as a biologist to illustrate how corruption evolves.
Krystal Ball, Saagar’s other co-host at Rising with Krystal and Saagar, rejoins The Realignment to discuss the 2020 election.
Yglesias in New York Magazine: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/08/one-billion-americans-by-matthew-yglesias-book-excerpt.html
Oren Cass, executive director of American Compass, rejoins The Realignment to discuss how the GOP can reconcile with organized labor, how the left and right should rethink their approach to economics, and answers listener Realignment Qs.
Marshall and Saagar answer Realignment Qs about populism, mail-in balloting, where they stand on politics, the plight of the politically homeless, and more.
Zaid Jilani, reporter and activist, joins The Realignment to discuss Black Lives Matter, the response to protests and riots, and crime and imprisonment in America.
In a Realignment podcast/Yang Speaks crossover episode, Andrew Yang and Saagar discuss the future of the Republican and Democratic Parties, challenging the mainstream media, the future of journalism, and their shared critique of the status quo.
Jacob Helberg, a senior advisor at the Stanford University Program on Geopolitics and Technology, and former lead of news policy at Google, joins The Realignment to discuss the Cold War II, why ByteDance should divest from TikTok, and makes the case for Joe Biden’s approach to competing with China.
The Federalist’s Emily Jashinsky joins The Realignment to discuss the future of the GOP, Biden Republicans, and why “moderate” is a terrible political label.
Zach Carter, senior reporter at HuffPost and author of The Price of Peace: Money Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes, joins The Realignment to discuss why Keynes matters today, Cold War II, and how left and right populists will respond to the COVID-19 recession and the 2020 election.
Marshall and Saagar answer Realignment listeners' questions ranging from marijuana legalization to merchandising, ending with a full discussion of a recent David Brooks article on the future of the Republican Party.
Nathan Baschez writer and strategist at the Everything Substack bundle joins The Realignment to unpack what Joe Rogan, Call Her Daddy, Spotify, and Quibi mean for the future of media.
Following up on his anti-Facebook boycott op-ed in The Washington Post, Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir and founding partner at 8VC, joins The Realignment to argue that free speech and the public square are threatened by illiberalism at home and abroad.
Balaji Srinivasan, angel investor and former CTO of Coinbase joins The Realignment to make the case for using decentralized technology to take on the power of Big Government, Big Media, and Big Tech.
Saagar and Marshall are taking The Realignment independent, first up, they’ll tell you everything you need to know. Then, Senator Marco Rubio joins the podcast to talk the future of the right, whether TikTok should be banned, and why the government needs to spend during economic emergencies.
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr joins The Realignment's season finale to discuss how the right should approach Big Tech and free speech debates, competition with China, and how a political realignment will reshape the right.
Hudson Senior Fellow Thomas Duesterberg joins The Realignment to make the case for why U.S. "industrial policy" isn't the best response to economic competition from China and America's vulnerable supply chains.
Michael Shellenberger, environmentalist activist, founder and president of Environmental Progress, joins The Realignment to make the pro-nuclear, anti-Green New Deal case for confronting climate change.
Nick Timothy, author of Remaking One Nation: The Future of Conservatism and former Chief of Staff to UK Prime Minister Theresa May, joins The Realignment to discuss the future of the right on both sides of the Atlantic.
Marshall and Saagar revisit their debate from last fall with Bhaskar Sunkara, the founding editor and publisher of Jacobin, about the virtues and vices of socialism.
Episode originally aired on September 24, 2019.
Marshall and Saagar traveled to Capitol Hill last October for a conversation with Missouri Senator Josh Hawley. In light of recent developments in Hong Kong, debates over the state of the economy, and speech controversies on Big Tech platforms, we're excited to re-air this season one episode relevant to the present moment.
Episode originally aired on October 29, 2019.
John Lee Report: https://www.hudson.org/research/16009-decoupling-the-us-economy-from-china-after-covid-19
Washington Post economics correspondent Heather Long joins The Realignment to unpack impact of COVID-19 on the labor market.
Matt Stoller, Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project, returns to The Realignment to discuss the structure of the economy during and after the COVID-19 outbreak.
Hudson scholars Walter Russell Mead, Rebeccah Heinrichs, and John Walters join The Realignment to discuss how the U.S., and the world at large, is re-assessing national interests and national security in light of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Continetti in The Washington Free Beacon: https://freebeacon.com/columns/corona-conservatism/
Hudson Senior Fellows Michael Doran, Peter Rough, and John Lee join The Realignment to explore the geopolitical ramifications of the Coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific.
Hudson Senior Fellow Tim Morrison joins The Realignment to discuss the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic and the national security threat of China's leverage over the American healthcare system.
Ross Douthat, conservative New York Times columnist and author of The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success, joins The Realignment.
Jane Coaston, Vox senior politics reporter and co-host of The Weeds podcast, joins The Realignment to discuss the state of the conservative movement.
Marshall and Saagar return to Capitol Hill to speak with Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton about the Coronavirus outbreak, the Chinese Communist Party, and the case for American leadership abroad.
Oren Cass served as former domestic policy director for Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign. He joins The Realignment to launch American Compass, his new organization that’s arguing for a new conservative approach to economics.
Hill Rising co-hosts Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti join The Realignment to articulate the case for the populist left and right.
- Caldwell's Book, "Age of Entitlement:" https://www.amazon.com/Age-Entitlement-America-Since-Sixties/dp/1501106899
- Caldwell's appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/christopher-caldwell-americas-two-constitutions-competing-visions-of-a-more-perfect-union
Klon Kitchen, the Heritage Foundation’s Senior Technology Research Fellow, joins The Realignment to debate the right’s response to the power of big tech companies.
Michael Lind, author of The New Class War, and J.D. Vance join The Realignment in front of a live audience for the season two premiere.
In this season one bonus episode we talk to Hudson Institute’s John Walters and Douglas Feith about the explosive Afghanistan Papers and reflect on the history of the war.
In The Realignment’s season one finale, Marshall and Saagar return to Capitol Hill and speak with Wisconsin Congressman Mike Gallagher about how he’s navigating the realignment era.
Chris Arnade, author and former Wall Street trader argues America’s educational system and economy unfairly favors credentialed elites over those left-behind.
Hudson Institute Senior Fellow and author of Thanksgiving: The Holiday At the Heart of the American Experience joins The Realignment for a special Thanksgiving-themed episode.
Hudson Institute Senior Fellow retired Brigadier General Robert Spalding joins The Realignment to discuss his new book about China’s decades-long strategy to use American institutions to undermine U.S. national security.
Peter Navarro, director of the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, joins The Realignment to discuss the Trump administration’s approach to economic competition and the need to focus on blue-collar workers and manufacturing.
Marshall and Saagar travel to Capitol Hill to interview Missouri Senator Josh Hawley about the dramatic political, economic, and technological changes reshaping America and its role in the world.
Marshall and Saagar sit down with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to discuss the Trump foreign policy agenda and how recent events have brought China’s influence over American culture and business into the mainstream consciousness.
Tune in tomorrow, as Marshall and Saagar sit down with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to discuss the Trump foreign policy agenda and how recent events have brought China’s influence over American culture and business into the mainstream consciousness.
Mike Isaac, New York Times technology reporter and author of Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber discusses the challenges and opportunities facing massively valued technology companies.
Rachel Bovard, senior adviser to the Internet Accountability Project, joins The Realignment to argue that tech companies can be as much a threat to privacy and free speech as government.
Bhaskar Sunkara, founding editor and publisher of the socialist magazine Jacobin, joins The Realignment to debate Marshall and Saagar on the vices and virtues of socialism.
The Washington Free Beacon’s new Editor in Chief and former Politico reporter Eliana Johnson describes reporting on the White House during a time of political upheaval in D.C.
Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Michael Doran describes the shifting American foreign policy consensus in both parties and argues that the foreign policy elite has yet to truly reckon with the significance of President Trump’s election.
Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle likens capitalism to Winston Churchill’s famous saying about democracy, saying it’s the “worst system except all the others.” Megan offers a spirited defense of the market amid increasing skepticism from the left and right.
Former White House Drug Czar and Hudson Institute COO, John Walters, joins The Realignment to discuss drug control policy at home and abroad.
Open Markets Institute Fellow, Matt Stoller, and the Lincoln Network’s Head of Policy, Zach Graves, join The Realignment to discuss the origins of the populist backlash against Silicon Valley technology companies.
The Conservative Sensibility author George Will joins The Realignment to debate the impact of technology, the next steps for the conservative movement, and how societies maintain their faith in the forces of dynamism amid rapid change.
Hillbilly Elegy author and investor J.D. Vance joins The Realignment to discuss the future of conservatism, the Big Tech backlash, industrial policy, and the rise of China.
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