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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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278 | Why Were Schools Closed So Long During COVID? - Anya Kamenetz on What COVID Did to Children

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: realignmentpod@gmail.com Anya Kamenetz, former NPR education reporter and author of The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now, joins The Realignment to discuss how COVID impacted a generation of school-aged ch...

Aug 23, 202258 minEp. 291

277 | Does America’s Most Important Asian Ally Want to Fight? - Tobias Harris on a pacifist Japan in the 21st century

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: realignmentpod@gmail.com Tobias Harris, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and author of The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan, joins The Realignment to discuss the assassination of former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, how...

Aug 19, 202257 minEp. 290

276 | Saagar & Marshall: What Are Realignments? Liz Cheney's Defeat + Trump's Centrality, and U.S.-Taiwan Policy After Pelosi's Visit

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: realignmentpod@gmail.com This episode and our expanded coverage are made possible thanks to our Supercast subscribers. If you can, please support the show above. In today's discussion episode, Saagar and Marshall discuss Rep. Liz Cheney's R...

Aug 18, 20221 hr 21 minEp. 289

275 | Jason Willick: Mar-a-Lago and Justice in a Divided America

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: realignmentpod@gmail.com Washington Post columnist Jason Willick joins The Realignment to discuss the aftermath of the FBI's search of former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, how both parties approach federal law enforcement, and the...

Aug 16, 20221 hr 8 minEp. 288

274 | Franek Sokolowski & Wiktor Babinski: How Sanctions Are Crippling Russia

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. LINK TO PAPER: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4167193 REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: realignmentpod@gmail.com...

Aug 12, 20221 hrEp. 287

273 | Elliot Ackerman: Reckoning with America's End in Afghanistan

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: realignmentpod@gmail.com Elliot Ackerman, author of The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan and 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, returns to The Realignment near the first anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Kabul to discuss how ...

Aug 09, 20221 hr 1 minEp. 285

272 | Frank DiStefano: Why Democrats & Republicans Haven't Realigned (Yet)

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment FRANK'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/c/FrankDiStefano Email us at: realignmentpod@gmail.com Frank DiStefano, author of The Next Realignment: Why America's Parties Are Crumbling and What Happens Next, joins The Realignment's weekly discussion...

Aug 05, 20221 hr 5 minEp. 284

270 | Season Premiere: Saagar & Marshall Discuss Andrew Yang's Forward, Pelosi in Taiwan, and More

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: realignmentpod@gmail.com Saagar and Marshall kick off The Realignment's new season by discussing Andrew Yang's new political party, America's political center-of-gravity, whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan in the face of CCP pro...

Aug 02, 20221 hr 18 minEp. 282

269 | Season Finale: Eve Fairbanks on What South Africa's Reckoning Means for the U.S.

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE EVE'S BOOK AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: realignmentpod@gmail.com For the show's season finale (we're back in August) Eve Fairbanks, author of The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning, joins The Realignment to discuss paral...

Jul 22, 20221 hr 5 minEp. 281

268 | Saagar & Marshall on Realignments + Mark Leibovich on Trump's DC

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: realignmentpod@gmail.com After last week's technical difficulties, we've combined two recordings that were cut short. First, Saagar and Marshall discuss the NYT's new poll on the realignment of American politics on issues of race, class, an...

Jul 21, 20221 hr 8 minEp. 280

Listener Q&A: Collapsing Institutions and Medicore Elites. How to Get Into Suits. What Are the Best Books on the Path to WW1? Do Blue State Migrants Bring Their Problems to Red States? And More....

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to listen to this episode, and all of our other bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/ . In this teaser of today's bonus episode for Supercast subscribers, Marshall and Saagar answer questions from our Supercast AMA page.

Jul 20, 202211 minEp. 279

267 | Matthew Ball: How the Metaverse Could Revolutionize Everything

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE THE METAVERSE AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment READ MATTHEW'S ESSAYS https://www.matthewball.vc/ Email us at: realignmentpod@gmail.com Matthew Ball, author of The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything, joins The Realignment to argue the Metaverse represent...

Jul 19, 20221 hr 15 minEp. 278

Note for Listeners About Today and Tomorrow's Episodes, Season Finale, and Subscribe to the Show!

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE ONE PERSON ONE, VOTE AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: realignmentpod@gmail.com Due to technical difficulties, we're releasing today and tomorrow's episodes next week. After next Friday, we're taking the week of July 25th off before coming back the week of A...

Jul 14, 20222 minEp. 277

266 | Nick Seabrook: Gerrymandering, Responsive Politics, and the Threat to Democracy

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE ONE PERSON ONE, VOTE AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: realignmentpod@gmail.com Nick Seabrook, author of One Person, One Vote: A Surprising History of Gerrymandering in America, joins The Realignment to discuss the history of gerrymandering and its costs, th...

Jul 12, 20221 hr 1 minEp. 276

265 | Peter Leyden: Is California the Future of American Politics?

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. Links to Peter Leyden's Writing: https://www.peterleyden.com/writing REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: realignmentpod@gmail.com Peter Leyden, Host of the Civilization Salons at The Long Now Foundation and former Managing Editor of Wired Magazine, joins The Realignment to di...

Jul 08, 20221 hr 27 minEp. 275

264 | Balaji Srinivasan: How and Why to Start New Countries

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: realignmentpod@gmail.com Balaji Srinivasan, author of The Network State, returns to The Realignment to discuss why he thinks internet-native "Network States" are the successors to the nation-state, how he sees American and global politics r...

Jul 07, 20221 hr 44 minEp. 274

Teaser | Biweekly Supercast Listener Q&A: Voting for the Lesser of Two Evils, Saagar's Graduate School Advice, Peter Zeihan and the Blob, and More...

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to listen to this episode, and all of our other bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/ . In this teaser of today's bonus episode for Supercast subscribers, Marshall and Saagar answer questions from our Supercast AMA page. We cover: Does choosing not to vote lead to change? Saagar and Marshall's advice on deciding to attend graduate school. How do we rank modern presidents? Does Peter Zeihan vindicate the foreign policy establishment? And more....

Jul 06, 20227 minEp. 273

263 | Steven McGregor: Will the U.S. Win the Next Battle of Midway?

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: realignmentpod@gmail.com This episode and our expanded coverage are made possible thanks to our Supercast subscribers. If you can, please support the show above. Steven McGregor, co-author with Brendan Simms of The Silver Waterfall: How Ame...

Jul 05, 20221 hr 16 minEp. 272

262 | Saagar & Marshall: Marc Andreessen Reflections, Roe v. Wade Overturn and Where We Go Next + the Case for Suits and Ties

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: realignmentpod@gmail.com This episode and our expanded coverage are made possible thanks to our Supercast subscribers. If you can, please support the show above. Saagar and Marshall reflect on this week's episodes with a16z's Marc Andreesse...

Jul 01, 20221 hr 11 minEp. 271

261 | Katherine Boyle: Getting Serious About American Dynamism

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: realignmentpod@gmail.com This episode and our expanded coverage are made possible thanks to our Supercast subscribers. If you can, please support the show above. Katherine Boyle, general partner at a16z and co-lead of the firm's American Dy...

Jun 30, 20221 hr 5 minEp. 270

260 | Marc Andreessen on Everything: The Need to Build, Web3's Value, Political Realignments, Collapsing Trust, U.S. History, and More...

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: realignmentpod@gmail.com This episode and our expanded coverage are made possible thanks to our Supercast subscribers. If you can, please support the show above. Marc Andreessen, cofounder and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, cofound...

Jun 28, 20221 hr 25 minEp. 269

Unlocked | Saagar & Marshall's First Subscriber Q&A Discussion

Due to a delayed discussion episode this week, we're unlocking our June 15th Supercast Q&A/AMA for free listeners of the show. If you'd like to support The Realignment and access our other two pieces of subscriber-only content, go to realignment.supercast.com. Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/the...

Jun 24, 202245 minEp. 268

259 | Chris Fenton: Top Gun: Maverick & the Future of Hollywood in China

Warning, this episode contains spoilers for Top Gun: Maverick. Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: realignmentpod@gmail.com This episode and our expanded coverage are made possible thanks to our Supercast subscribers. If you can, please support the show above. Chris Fenton, H...

Jun 23, 202259 minEp. 267

Teaser | Subscriber AMA: Our Favorite Elections, Government Gas Cards, Media Echo-Chambers, and More...

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to listen to this episode, and all of our other bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. In this teaser of today's bonus episode for Supercast subscribers, Marshall and Saagar answer questions from our Supercast AMA page. Go to https://realignment.supercast.com/ to join in, support the show, and access exclusive content.

Jun 22, 20227 minEp. 266

258 | Michelle Wilde Anderson: How Recessions & Politics Dismantle Local Governments

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: realignmentpod@gmail.com This episode and our expanded coverage are made possible thanks to our Supercast subscribers. If you can, please support the show above. Michelle Wilde Anderson, Stanford Law professor and author of The Fight to Sav...

Jun 21, 20221 hr 1 minEp. 265

257 | Saagar & Marshall: Unpacking Peter Zeihan, Senate Gun Legislation, and Will Biden Run Again in 2024?

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: realignmentpod@gmail.com This episode and our expanded coverage are made possible thanks to our Supercast subscribers. If you can, please support the show above. Saagar and Marshall discuss their reaction to Peter Zeihan's appearance on The...

Jun 17, 20221 hr 17 minEp. 264

256 | Andrew Rice: How the Year 2000 Broke America

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: realignmentpod@gmail.com This episode and our expanded coverage are made possible thanks to our Supercast subscribers. If you can, please support the show above. Andrew Rice, author of The Year That Broke America: An Immigration Crisis, a T...

Jun 16, 202259 minEp. 263

Teaser | Monthly Supercast Q&A: Trump vs. Desantis, What's the Next Realignment, Celebs in Politics, and More...

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to listen to this episode, and all of our other bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/ . In this teaser of today's bonus episode for Supercast subscribers, Marshall and Saagar answer questions from our Supercast AMA page. We cover: What drives our politics? Trump vs. Desantis in 2024? What issue will finally realign American politics? How celebrities should engage in politics? And more......

Jun 15, 202212 minEp. 262
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