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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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419 | Melissa Kearney: Two-Parent Privilege - The Decline of Marriage and the Fracturing of 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: [email protected] Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Melissa Kearney, Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, Director of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group, a...

Oct 24, 202354 minEp. 453

418 | Bethany McLean: How COVID Exposed a Hollowed-Out and Sickly 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: [email protected] Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Bethany McLean, co-author of The Big Fail: and co-host of the Capitalisn't podcast, joins The Realignment. Marshall and...

Oct 20, 202352 minEp. 452

417 | Seth D. Kaplan: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time

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: [email protected] Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Seth D. Kaplan, fragile states expert and author of Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at ...

Oct 19, 202353 minEp. 451

416 | Rikki Schlott: The Cancel Culture Debate After the Hamas Massacre

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: [email protected] Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Rikki Schlott, co-author (with Greg Lukianoff) of The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust, ...

Oct 17, 202355 minEp. 450

Weekly Recap and Audience AMA - Free Edition | Marshall & Saagar on Gaza, Hamas, and Israel

Subscribe to The Realignment to access the full version of this episode and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ 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. George Packer | https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/israeli-government-response-hamas-attack-gaza-9-11-lessons/675622/...

Oct 15, 20231 hr 15 minEp. 449

415 | James Pethokoukis: Conservative Futurism & Up Wing Politics - Building the Sci-Fi Future We We're Promised

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: [email protected] Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai James Pethokoukis, AEI Senior Fellow and author of The Conservative Futurist: How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Pr...

Oct 13, 202349 minEp. 448

Marshall & Saagar Weekend Special | Submit Your Questions for a Israel, Hamas, and Gaza Themed Episode

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: [email protected] Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai On Sunday, Marshall and Saagar will release a special Ask-Me-Anything and discussion episode focused on all things Isra...

Oct 12, 20231 minEp. 447

414 | Oren Cass: Is the GOP's Pro-Worker Economic Policy Realignment Underway?

Survey Results and Executive Brief | The New Conservative Voter - American Compass 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: [email protected] Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Oren Cass, Executive Director and fo...

Oct 10, 202335 minEp. 446

413 | Nabila Ramdani: Fixing France - How to Save a Broken Republic

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: [email protected] Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Nabila Ramdani, journalist and author of Fixing France: How to Save a Broken Republic, joins The Realignment. Nabila an...

Oct 06, 202351 minEp. 445

412 | Yonah Jeremy Bob: Iran's Nuclear Program, the Abraham Accords, and the New 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: [email protected] Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Yonah Jeremy Bob, co-author of Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Di...

Oct 05, 202357 minEp. 444

411 | Vincent Bevins: Why Didn't a Decade of Global Mass Protests Lead to Revolutionary Change?

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: [email protected] Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Vincent Bevins, author of If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution and The Jakarta Method: Washin...

Oct 03, 202358 minEp. 443

410 | Thomas P.M. Barnett: How Globalization, North-South Migration, Climate Change, and Demographic Collapse Will Define America's New Map

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: [email protected] Foundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-fai Thomas P.M. Barnett, author of America's New Map: Restoring Our Global Leadership in an Era of Climate Change and Demog...

Sep 28, 20231 hr 14 minEp. 442

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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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
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