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The Realignment

The United States is in the midst of a dramatic political realignment with shifting views on national security, economics, technology, and the role of government in our lives. Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff explore this with thinkers, policymakers, and more.
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409 | Yascha Mounk: The Identity Trap - Why New Group Identity & Social Justice Ideas Failed to Transform America

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Yascha Mounk, author of The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time, returns to The Realignment. Yascha a...

Sep 26, 20231 hrEp. 441

408 | Mathias Döpfner: Escaping the Trade Trap - How to Stop Doing Business with Dictators

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Mathias Döpfner, Chairman & CEO of Axel Springer SE, the biggest digital publisher in Europe and owner of U.S. medi...

Sep 21, 202353 minEp. 440

407 | Cenk Uygur: The Future of the Progressive Movement in Joe Biden's (or Donald Trump's) America

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Cenk Uygur, host and founder of The Young Turks, co-founder of the Justice Democrats PAC, and author of Justice Is Comi...

Sep 19, 202356 minEp. 439

406 | Zeke Faux: Inside Sam Bankman-Fried & Crypto's Rise and Fall

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Zeke Faux, investigative reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek, New America National Fellow, and author of Number Go Up: ...

Sep 15, 202350 minEp. 438

405 | Loren Grush: The Artemis Moon Mission & NASA's Past, Present, and Future

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Loren Grush, Space Reporter for Bloomberg and author of The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts, ...

Sep 14, 202354 minEp. 437

404 | Coco Krumme: The False Promise of Optimization - Plus, Saagar & Marshall on the Biden Presidency

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai...

Sep 12, 20231 hr 6 minEp. 436

403 | Kevin Vallier: Integralism & the Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Kevin Vallier, author of All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism, joins The Real...

Sep 08, 20231 hrEp. 435

402 | Jonathan Taplin: Reality vs. Dystopia - The Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, & Crypto

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Jonathan Taplin, author of The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires Are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mar...

Sep 07, 20231 hr 4 minEp. 434

401 | Franklin Foer: Inside the Biden White House & the Struggle for America's Future

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Franklin Foer, author of The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future, joi...

Sep 05, 20231 hrEp. 433

400 | Mauro F. Guillén: The Megatrends Creating a Post-Generational America

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Mauro F. Guillén, Wharton School professor and author of The Perennials: The Megatrends Creating a Postgenerational Soc...

Aug 31, 202343 minEp. 432

399 | Robert D. Kaplan: America Between Empire & Anarchy in the Greater Middle East

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Robert D. Kaplan, author of The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China and The Tragi...

Aug 29, 202347 minEp. 431

398 | Kathryn Cramer Brownell: The Rise and Fall of the Cable News Era

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Kathryn Cramer Brownell, author of 24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox...

Aug 24, 202350 minEp. 430

397 | Jerry Dunleavy & James Hasson: Two Years After the Fall of Kabul - Was the Chaotic Withdrawal Inevitable?

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai...

Aug 22, 20231 hr 2 minEp. 429

Podcast Premiere | Arsenal of Democracy: America Is Not in Decline, but It Needs Help (feat. Walter Russell Mead)

With our first episode, host Marshall Kosloff is joined by Walter Russell Mead to review what an American "Arsenal of Democracy" really means and what it looks like. Walter and Marshall survey world affairs, from the War in Ukraine to the China challenge, to prescribe what American leadership can do for a shifting world order with increasingly influential great power rivals. Walter and Marshall then return to the home front, and discuss what it would take domestically to build an Arsenal of Demo...

Aug 17, 20231 hr 5 minEp. 428

396 | Sohrab Ahmari: Post-Liberalism and the Threat of Private Tyranny

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ Sohrab's Newsweek Op-Ed Excerpt | I Was Wrong: The GOP Will Never Be the Party of the Working Class REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Sohrab Ahmari, auth...

Aug 15, 20231 hrEp. 427

395 | David Lipsky: Climate Change, the Culture Wars, and the Path to Denial

David Lipsky, author of The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial, joins The Realignment. David and Marshall discuss how climate change evolved from a policy oriented scientific issue to casualty of the culture wars, climate policy roads not taken over the past 70 years, the line between science denial and legitimate policy debate, the American political system's ability to "solve" climate change in the first place, and revisit Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point, Dav...

Aug 10, 20231 hr 6 minEp. 425

394 | Ben Ansell: Why Politics Fails

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Ben Ansell, author of Why Politics Fails and Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions at Nuffield College, Univ...

Aug 08, 202358 minEp. 424

393 | John Lovell: Confronting the Crisis Facing America's Men and Boys

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ Opinion | Christine Emba: Men are lost. Here’s a map out of the wilderness. - The Washington Post REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai...

Aug 03, 20231 hrEp. 423

392 | Derek Leebaert: FDR's "Unlikely Heroes" and America's Triumph Over the Great Depression and WWII

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Derek Leebaert, author of Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made and Grand ...

Aug 01, 202353 minEp. 422

391 | Larry Kramer: America After Neoliberalism

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Larry Kramer, President of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, joins The Realignment. Larry and Marshall discuss ...

Jul 27, 202347 minEp. 421

390 | Amy Finkelstein: How to Tear Down the Broken Healthcare System

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Amy Finkelstein, MIT economist, MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, and co-author of We've Got You Covered: Rebooting Ame...

Jul 25, 202359 minEp. 420

389 | Megan Reiss: The New Era of Geopolitical Risk - How AI Can Fix Supply Chains

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Dr. Megan Reiss, Founder & CEO of SolidIntel Inc. and former National Security Policy Advisor for Senator Mitt Romn...

Jul 20, 202347 minEp. 418

388 | Neil Howe: The Fourth Turning Is Here - How America's Crisis Will End

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Neil Howe, author of The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us About How and When This Crisis Wil...

Jul 18, 20231 hr 4 minEp. 417

387 | Richard Kahlenberg: Class-Based Solutions to America's Housing and Education Problems

Richard D. Kahlenberg, author of Excluded: How Snob Zoning, Nimbyism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See, joins The Realignment. Richard and Marshall discuss whether race or class is a bigger obstacle to success in America, how RFK's cross-racial coalition inspired Richard's work, how exclusionary zoning and NIMBYism lie at the heart of the housing crisis, and his advocacy for class-based affirmative action after the Supreme Court's abolishment of race-based affirmative action. Subscrib...

Jul 13, 202356 minEp. 416

386 | Michael R. Gordon: The U.S. Isn't Ready for Great Power Conflict - And the Iraq War(s) That Led It There

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ Michael's Great Power Conflict Essay: https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-military-china-taiwan-russia-great-power-conflict-481f7756 REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-b...

Jul 11, 202358 minEp. 415

385 | Wesley Lowery: Backlash Politics from Obama 2008 to the Summer of 2020 and Beyond

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Wesley Lowery, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and author of American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Prog...

Jul 06, 20231 hr 15 minEp. 414

384 | Peter Turchin: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ Peter's 2010 Nature Article: https://www.nature.com/articles/463608a REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Peter Turchin, author of End Times: Elites, Counte...

Jul 04, 202347 minEp. 413

383 | Sean A. Mirski: How the USA's Rise to Regional Hegemony Rhymes with China's

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Sean A. Mirski, author of We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus, joins T...

Jun 29, 202356 minEp. 412
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