Apply to attend The Realignment’s conference in Miami on October 22nd: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-realignment-conference-tickets-158996058491 Use code “realignment” to get a 50% discount to Lincoln Network’s evening event with Peter Thiel in Miami on October 20th: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-peter-thiel-tickets-157672156665 Bruno Maçães, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and author of The Dawn of Eurasia, Belt and Road, History Has Begun, and the forthcoming Geopolitic...
Jul 13, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 141
Check out Lincoln Network's Policy Hackers program: https://www.hackpolicy.org/ Apply to attend The Realignment's conference on October 22nd in Miami: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-realignment-conference-tickets-158996058491 Antonio García Martínez, author of The Pull Request Substack and Chaos Monkeys; Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley, joins The Realignment to discuss tribalism in America, how social media fuels in-person (and virtual) conflict, the upending of the advert...
Jul 08, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 140
Apply to join Marshall, Saagar, and Katherine Boyle in Miami on October 22, 2021 for the first Realignment conference: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-realignment-conference-tickets-158996058491 Let us know if you have any questions about the conference at realignmentpod@gmail.com George Packer, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of The Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal and The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, joins The Realignment to discuss how America fracture...
Jul 06, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 139
Apply to join Marshall, Saagar, and Katherine Boyle in Miami on October 22, 2021 for the first Realignment conference: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-realignment-conference-tickets-158996058491 Let us know if you have any questions about the conference at realignmentpod@gmail.com Katherine Boyle, partner at General Catalyst, joins The Realignment to discuss the prospects for America’s renewal, how the finance and tech diminished interest in public service, and what D.C. and Silicon Valley can ...
Jul 01, 2021•50 min•Ep. 138
Dr. Julian Zelizer, Princeton professor and author of Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party, joins The Realignment to discuss the state of the Republican Party, how former Speaker Newt Gingrich changed the course of Congress, and how ambitious politicians rise to power. Subscribe to our Substack: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Buy a book from our bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Purchase a mug on our new web...
Jun 29, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 137
Josh Rogin, author of Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century and Washington Post columnist, returns to The Realignment to discuss the continued development of the COVID-19 Wuhan lab leak theory and what the story means for U.S.-China relations, the scientific community, media, domestic politics, and content moderation. Subscribe to our Substack: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Buy a book from our bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Purchase...
Jun 24, 2021•59 min•Ep. 136
Today’s episode is a crossover between The Realignment and Alex Kantrowitz’s podcast/newsletter Big Technology. Alex Kantrowitz returns to The Realignment to discuss the five new bills targeting big tech companies, what Lina Khan’s appointment as chair of the Federal Trade Commission means for the the industry, what the Wuhan lab-leak theory means for the future of content moderation, and whether conservatives get a fair shake on social media platforms.
Jun 22, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 135
Dr. Eric Weinstein, host of “The Portal” podcast and managing director at Thiel Capital, makes his third Realignment appearance to discuss where Marshall and Saagar should take The Realignment and Breaking Points, returning heterodox viewpoints to institutions, and why and how those who’ve tried to do so have failed so far.
Jun 17, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 134
Conor Dougherty, author of Golden Gates: The Housing Crisis and a Reckoning for the American Dream and New York Times economics reporter, joins The Realignment to unpack the housing crisis, the connection between homelessness and affordability, NIMBYs vs YIMBYs, and what a backlash to policies that increase construction could look like.
Jun 15, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 133
Charlotte Alter, a Time national correspondent and author of The Ones Weve Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America joins The Realignment to discuss the careers and impact of the first millennials to hold political office, the prospects for both parties over the next few decades, and whether social media era politicians have the skills to actually address big problems and advance their agendas. Purchase a mug: https://www.therealignment.fm/ Subscribe to our Substa...
Jun 10, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 132
Katherine Gehl, author of The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy and founder of The Institute for Political Innovation joins The Realignment to discuss why Washington isn’t actually broken, and instead operates exactly as it was designed, why an increasing number of people feel politically homeless, and how to restore competition to the political system. Purchase a mug: https://www.therealignment.fm/ Subscribe to our Substack: https://t...
Jun 08, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 131
Frank DiStefano, author of The Next Realignment: Why America’s Parties Are Crumbling and What Happens Next, returns to The Realignment to define what realignments are (and aren’t), how either political party could collapse, and why our system isn’t ready to face the 21st century. Subscribe to Frank’s YouTube Channel for more on realignments: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyI2l4jUJ-GqtbtMhCvsWzg Purchase a mug: https://www.therealignment.fm/ Subscribe to our Substack: https://therealignment.su...
Jun 03, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 130
Krystal Ball and Kyle Kulinski of Krystal Kyle & Friends join The Realignment for a crossover episode to announce the launch of Saagar and Krystal’s new YouTube show/podcast, Breaking Points, launching on June 7th. Subscribe to Breaking Points at: krystalandsaagar.com. Subscribe to the Breaking Points YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/breakingpoints To purchase the long-awaited Realignment mugs, go to The Realignment’s store at therealignment.fm
Jun 01, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 129
Marshall’s launched a new podcast with On Deck. Go to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-deep-end/id1568752165 to check out the first three episodes with Balaji Srinivasan, Erik Torenberg, and Katherine Boyle and leave a five-star review on Apple podcasts. Edward-Isaac Dovere, author of Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats’ Campaigns to Defeat Trump and staff writer at The Atlantic, joins The Realignment to discuss how the Trump presidency changed the Democratic Party, how the Obama ...
May 27, 2021•50 min•Ep. 128
Listen & Subscribe to The Deep End: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-deep-end/id1568752165 The Deep End is produced by On Deck - where top talent goes to accelerate their ideas and careers. We hope those who listen to the ideas on this show are inspired to build. To learn more about On Deck’s programs visit beondeck.com.
May 26, 2021•48 min
Zachary Karabell, author of Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power, joins The Realignment to discuss the rise of American finance, the rise and fall of “the establishment,” America and China’s long divorce process, and why American’s will have to adjust to being a “normal” country moving forward. Buy Zachary's book using our Bookshop link: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment
May 25, 2021•53 min•Ep. 127
Purchase Brad’s books (Amazon Unbound, The Upstarts, and The Everything Store) at The Realignment’s Bookshop store: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-bookshop Brad Stone, Senior Executive Editor for Global Technology at Bloomberg News and author of Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire, joins The Realignment to discuss the challenges, impact, and scope of Jeff Bezos and Amazon’s ambitions in cloud computing, streaming services, news media, retail, politics and ...
May 20, 2021•58 min•Ep. 82
Buy a book using our bookshop link: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Due to a last-minute booking snafu (and a lack of backup episodes), we’re releasing a book recommendations update episode instead of our usual programming. Don’t worry, we’ll be back with new content the rest of the week
May 18, 2021•25 min•Ep. 81
Niall Ferguson, author of Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, joins the show to discuss why some societies fall apart while others rise in the face of doom, how a Cold War between the U.S. and China could lead to catastrophe, and analyze the pathologies facing modern America through the lenses of imperial decline, finance, institutional decline, and social fragmentation. Special Niall Ferguson Bookshop Link: https://bookshop.org/l...
May 13, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 80
Senator Josh Hawley returns to The Realignment to discuss the right’s fraying relationship with the tech industry and what antitrust enforcement can (and can’t), accomplish.
May 11, 2021•47 min•Ep. 79
We’re on vacation this week, but rather than not publish anything, we’re releasing a special episode featuring the entire team that puts together the show. Join Marshall, Saagar, Phil, James, and Emma for episode, book, and podcast recommendations to hold you over until next week.
May 06, 2021•28 min
Cade Metz, technology correspondent with The New York Times and author of Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World, joins The Realignment to discuss the past, present, and future of AI and the actors and players that will shape the technology’s future.
May 04, 2021•47 min•Ep. 78
Buy a book using our bookshop link: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Julia Galef, author of The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t and host of the Rationally Speaking podcast, joins The Realignment to make the case for embracing the “scout” mindset in order to make better decisions and avoid tribalism and wishful thinking, as opposed to the knee-jerk bias of the “soldier” mindset.
Apr 29, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 77
Note: During today’s episode, we discuss our plans to launch a Supercast subscription in May: https://www.supercast.com/product. A bunch of you have already written that you’d like to support the show financially, so please email us at realignmentpod@gmail.com if you’d subscribe to a paid Realignment membership, plus we’d love to hear any suggestions with what additional features we should add to make it worthwhile. Don’t worry though, we won’t paywall the Tuesday, Thursday, or Reboot episodes w...
Apr 27, 2021•30 min•Ep. 76
Buy a book using our bookshop link: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Zachary Carter, Writer in Residence at the Omidyar Network and author of The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes, returns to The Realignment to discuss the government response to COVID, how capitalism will and won’t change after the pandemic, and how economic policy debates played out over the past three decades.
Apr 22, 2021•56 min•Ep. 75
Email us your thoughts about this episode, or any episode, at realignmentpod@gmail.com Buy a book using our bookshop link: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Dr. Kevin Sabet, President and CEO of Smart Approaches to Marijuana and author of Smokescreen: What the Marijuana Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know, joins The Realignment to reflect on the failures and success of the war on drugs, the effects of recent state decriminalization initiatives, his time as a drug policy official in the Bush...
Apr 20, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 74
Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack, now released on Thursdays: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Check out Elliot and Admiral Stavridis’s Bookshop recommendations on the U.S. and China, foreign policy, and warfare: https://bookshop.org/lists/2034-admiral-james-stavridis-and-elliot-ackerman-book-recommendations Elliot Ackerman, co-author of 2034: A Novel of the Next World War and Marine combat veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, joins The Realignment to follow up on the pod’s con...
Apr 15, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 73
Bookshop link for Lisa’s books, plus recommendations discussed in the episode: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-episode-116-lisa-napoli-books-recommendations Lisa Napoli, author of Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR and Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News, returns to The Realignment to discuss the past, present, and future of the news media, and why the challenges and opportunities facing the industry today pe...
Apr 13, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 72
Subscribe to Frank’s YouTube channel on realignments: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyI2l4jUJ-GqtbtMhCvsWzg Frank DiStefano, author of The Next Realignment: Why America’s Parties Are Crumbling and What Happens Next, joins The Realignment to explain why realignments are a regular feature of American politics, the need to move beyond 20th century debates between conservatives and liberals, and why the collapse of the current party system will lead to renewal and reform.
Apr 08, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 71
Glenn Greenwald, Co-Founder of The Intercept and author of Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s Brazil, joins The Realignment to discuss the past, present, and future of Brazil, America’s involvement in Latin America during and after the Cold War, and the legacy of the Edward Snowden leaks. Check out our Bookshop store: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment
Apr 06, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 70
