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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.

Episodes

365 | Michael Lind: How the Suppression of Wages is Destroying 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 Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai 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, jo...

May 02, 20231 hr 11 minEp. 389

364 | Rebecca Grant: Why Birth, Motherhood, and Pregnancy Are at the Center of American Politics

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 Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Rebecca Grant, author of Birth: Three Mothers, Nine Months, and Pregnancy in America, joins The Realignment. Rebecca and Marshall discuss her time profiling ...

Apr 27, 202346 minEp. 388

363 | Peter Frankopan: How a Transforming Earth & a Rising Asia Will Define the 21st Century

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 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 Reali...

Apr 25, 202357 minEp. 387

#362 | Steven Simon: The Rise and Fall of America's Grand Delusion in the 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 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 interve...

Apr 20, 202355 minEp. 385

#361 | Emmet Penney: Roadblocks to a Nuclear Renaissance, the Broken Energy Grid, and the Decarbonization Challenge

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. Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https:/...

Apr 18, 20231 hr 15 minEp. 384

#360 | Renu Mukherjee: The End of Affirmative Action and the Future of Higher Education

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 Renu's Writing: https://manhattan.institute/person/renu-mukherjee Email us at: [email protected] Renu Mukherjee, a Paulson Policy Analyst at the Manhattan Institute, joins The Realignment to discuss the implications of the Supreme Cour...

Apr 13, 202357 minEp. 382

#359 | Jacob Helberg: The Geopolitics of the Great U.S.-China Tech Decoupling

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 at: [email protected] 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 bro...

Apr 11, 202345 minEp. 381

Supercast Teaser | Realignment Discussion & Ask Me Anything: Saagar and Marshall on Wisconsin & Chicago's Elections, Trump's Court Hearing, Demographic and Geographic Change, and More...

WANT TO LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE? SUBSCRIBE TO OUR SUPERCAST: https://realignment.supercast.com/ 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.

Apr 07, 202313 minEp. 380

358 | Henry Olsen: Trump vs. DeSantis and the Fight for the New Republican Party

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 at: [email protected] 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 Th...

Apr 06, 202345 minEp. 379

Introducing The Realignment Part II - The Lead Up to 2024 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 at: [email protected] 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...

Apr 04, 202317 minEp. 378

357 | The Revolts That Shook Britain and the Realignment of Western Politics with Matthew Goodwin

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 at: [email protected] 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 ...

Mar 30, 20231 hr 4 minEp. 377

356 | Inside the TikTok Ban/Forced Sale Debate with Adam Kovacevich

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 at: [email protected] 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-lef...

Mar 28, 202359 minEp. 376

Realignment Discussion & Ask Me Anything: Saagar and Marshall on Why Realignment Ideas Don't Spread, the Iraq War Anniversary, and More...(Supercast Exclusive)

WANT TO LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE? SUBSCRIBE TO OUR SUPERCAST: https://realignment.supercast.com/ Marshall and Saagar answer Realignment Supercast subscriber Q&A from our ask-me-anything page. Subscribers to The Realignment's Supercast help us monetize the show, submit questions for Q&A episodes, listen to exclusive content, and more. 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...

Mar 24, 202324 minEp. 375

Iraq War 20th Anniversary | Robert Draper on How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq

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 at: [email protected] 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....

Mar 23, 202359 minEp. 374

355 | The Global AI Race and the Future of Great Power Competition with Paul Scharre

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 at: [email protected] 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 ...

Mar 21, 202346 minEp. 373

354 | Is America a Superpower in Peril? - with David McCormick

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. Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show:...

Mar 16, 202354 minEp. 372

353 | How the Consulting Industry Warped the Economy, Infantilized Government, and Weakened Business with Mariana Mazzucato

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 at: [email protected] 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 ...

Mar 14, 202349 minEp. 371

Realignment Discussion & Ask Me Anything: Saagar & Marshall on Why They Interview Politicians, Saagar's Engagement, and More...(Supercast Exclusive)

WANT TO LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE? SUBSCRIBE TO OUR SUPERCAST: https://realignment.supercast.com/ Marshall and Saagar answer Realignment Supercast subscriber Q&A from our ask-me-anything page. Subscribers to The Realignment's Supercast help us monetize the show, submit questions for Q&A episodes, listen to exclusive content, and more.

Mar 10, 202312 minEp. 370

352 | How the Media Lost Its Way and Lessons for 2024 with Steve Krakauer

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 at: [email protected] 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 big...

Mar 09, 202355 minEp. 369

351 | Cheap Debt, Bailouts, Crashes, and the Fight for Economic Resilience with Liz Hoffman

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...

Mar 07, 202354 minEp. 368

350 | Busting the Myth of Market Fundamentalism with Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway

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 at: [email protected] 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 "ma...

Mar 03, 202351 minEp. 367

349 | Vivek Ramaswamy on All Things Public Policy

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. 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:...

Mar 02, 202329 minEp. 366

348 | Is Taiwan Next?: Part II with Elbridge Colby

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 at: [email protected] 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 ...

Feb 28, 202358 minEp. 365

347 | Driving Battlefield Innovation from Afghanistan & Iraq to Ukraine and Beyond with Pete Newell

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 at: [email protected] 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 Afghanista...

Feb 24, 20231 hr 3 minEp. 364

346 | The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism with Martin Wolf

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 at: [email protected] 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 com...

Feb 23, 202352 minEp. 363

345 | The Realignment Live Part III: Future of Families, Radical Decentralization, & the Paper Belt on Fire

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 at: [email protected] 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 Am...

Feb 21, 20231 hr 24 minEp. 362

344 | Inside the Nuclear Energy Renaissance with Bret Kugelmass

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/. Titans of Nuclear Podcast: h ttps://www.titansofnuclear.com/ REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: [email protected] 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 n...

Feb 17, 20231 hr 3 minEp. 361

343 | The Realignment x The Good Time Show: ChatGPT and the Rise of AI, Media Critiques, Searching for Crypto's "Facebook Moment," and the Future of Social Media with Aarthi Ramamurthy & Sriram Krishnan

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/. The Good Time Show YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AarthiAndSriram/featured REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: [email protected] Aarthi Ramamurthy and Sriram Krishnan, investors and hosts of The Good Time Show , join Saagar and Marshall on The Realignment...

Feb 16, 20231 hr 17 minEp. 360
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