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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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Vanity Fair - Jonathan Darman | What Biden Can Learn from LBJ's Decision to Drop Out in 1968

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Season Premiere: Jonathan Darman, journalist, historian, and author of Landslide: LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America & Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Jonathan discuss why efforts to convince or force President Biden to drop his reelection bid failed, how LBJ's decision to leave the race at the height of the Vietnam War in 1968 informs how we understand Biden's motivations, the ways that the 1944, 1968, 1980, and 1984 elections offer parallels to today, and why there hasn't been a landslide electoral victory by either party in decades.  

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The Rise of the Abundance Faction: The rise of the abundance faction (substack.com)

 National Affairs: Beyond Academic Sectarianism

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 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 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

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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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Tim Alberta, staff writer for The Atlantic and author of The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Tim discuss the evolution of Trump's relationship from Evangelical Christians from 2015 to the present, the impact of a secularizing America on faith's role in politics, and the long-term effects of the overturning of Roe v. Wade. 

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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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American Affairs: America’s Advanced Manufacturing Problem—and How to Fix It

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David Adler and William B. Bonvillian, authors of America’s Advanced Manufacturing Problem—and How to Fix It, published in American Affairs, join The Realignment. Marshall, David, and William discuss how the U.S. lost its leadership in global manufacturing, the impact of federal legislation like the CHIPS Act, and why the key to a successful industrial policy effort lies in redesigning the country's innovation system.

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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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In this week's edition of The Realignment's new recap and audience Q&A/AMA show, Marshall and Saagar's discuss the start of Israel's invasion of Gaza, the implications for the U.S., and more. Subscribers to The Realignment's Supercast can access the full version of this episode. 

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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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On Sunday, Marshall and Saagar will release a special Ask-Me-Anything and discussion episode focused on all things Israel, Gaza, Hamas, and more. Plus, they'll feature a section for Supercast subscribers, focused on the broader news of the week, recommendations, and more. Submit your questions on Supercast or email the podcast at [email protected]. 

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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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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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Craig Nelson, author of V is for Victory:  Franklin Roosevelt’s American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II, joins The Realignment. Craig and Marshall discuss the "miracle" of America's manufacturing potential, FDR's leadership before and during World War II, how the combination of the New Deal and American industrial strength birthed 20th century middle-class prosperity, extraordinary scientific and technological achievements, and how the lessons from the period apply to today's defense manufacturing challenges.

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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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TechCrunch on Post: https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/03/post-a-twitter-alternative-that-pays-publishers-via-microtransactions-launches-public-beta/

Noam Bardin, founder and CEO of Post, joins The Realignment. Noam and Marshall discuss his vision for social media in a post-Twitter world, why micropayments could provide a sustainable business model for media organizations and creators, how 2020s social media differs from its 2000s-2010s heyday, and what it means for the internet to decentralize away from legacy platforms.

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Director Chopra's Anti-Monopoly Summit Remarks: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/prepared-remarks-cfpb-director-rohit-chopra-2023-american-economic-liberties-project-anti-monopoly-summit/

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 discuss all things public policy.

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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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The ‘CEO of Anti-Woke Inc.’ Has His Eye on the Presidency

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.