The Realignment

For Day 20 of The Realignment's daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with Jon Wolfsthal, a member of the Science and Security Board at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and a former adviser to President Obama. They discussed the past, present, and future of U.S. nuclear policy, Ukraine's history with nuclear weapons, whether nuclear weapons promote peace or not, and the future of disarmament after Iraq and Libya. SEND US A TIP: https://app.swapstack.co/tips/the-realignment REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

For Day 19 of The Realignment's daily Ukraine and beyond coverage, Marshall spoke with Dr. Jennifer Sciubba, author of 8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World. They start by discussing the over-hyped idea in the American foreign policy community that Russia's declining population and rising mortality rate signaled the decline of its foreign policy ambitions and then engage in a broader discussion on the implications of lower birthrates in wealthy, industrialized countries and why left and right approaches to push replacement-level family sizes have failed. SEND US A TIP: https://app.swapstack.co/tips/the-realignment REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

For Day 18 of The Realignment's daily Ukraine and beyond coverage, Marshall spoke with Dr. Sean McFate, professor of strategy at the National Defense University and author of The New Rules of War: How America Can Win--Against Russia, China, and Other Threats. They discussed Dr. McFate's central argument that conventional warfare no longer furthers broad political objectives, why "peace" as we know it is over, and what Ukraine instructs about what's real and what's hype when it comes to predictions about the future of warfare. SEND US A TIP: https://app.swapstack.co/tips/the-realignment REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

For Day 17 of The Realignment's daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with William Drozdiak, author of The Last President of Europe: Emmanuel Macron's Race to Revive France and Save the World and Fractured Continent: Europe's Crises and the Fate of the West. They discussed the degree to which Putin's invasion of Ukraine has (and hasn't) unified a Europe fractured by Brexit, the Syrian refugee crisis, questions of identity, and economic stagnation and the significance of French President Emmanuel Macron's relationship with Putin and his broader project to reform France and revitalize Europe. SEND US A TIP: https://app.swapstack.co/tips/the-realignment REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

For Day 16 of The Realignment's daily coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Mark Valentine, Head of Federal at Scale AI and Air Force veteran/F-16 pilot, joins to discuss how artificial intelligence/machine learning tools teamed with human analysts will reshape the battlefield and scale the satellite-based reconnaissance that revealed Russia's pre-invasion buildup. SEND US A TIP: https://app.swapstack.co/tips/the-realignment REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

For Day 15 of The Realignment's daily coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Marshall spoke with Dr. Robert Farley, author of Grounded: The Case for Abolishing the United States Air Force and The Battleship Book. They discussed why Russia has failed to achieve air superiority in Ukraine, the debates over No-Fly-Zones and MiG-29 deliveries to Ukraine, the evolving nature of air combat from WWII to today, and the evolution of fighter aircraft alongside the transition from Generation 4 to 5. NYT Article on Ukraine's Air Force: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/world/europe/ukraine-air-force-russia.html SEND US A TIP: https://app.swapstack.co/tips/the-realignment REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

For Day 14 of The Realignment's daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall talks with Dr. Amy Zegart, author of Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence. Dr. Zegart discusses how the release of classified intelligence before Russia's invasion of Ukraine will reshape geopolitics, how to think about intelligence failures in Afghanistan and Iraq, and provides an overview of the structure and make-up of the U.S. intelligence community. SEND US A TIP: https://app.swapstack.co/tips/the-realignment REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

For Day 13 of The Realignment's daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with return Realignment guest Elbridge Colby, co-founder of The Marathon Initiative, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development, where he served as the lead official in the development of the 2018 National Defense Strategy. They discussed what Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the increased focus on the European theater means for Taiwan and America's Pacific positions. For more on Elbridge's recent book: The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in the Age of Great Power Conflict, check out our episode with him last September: https://podcasts.apple.com/cz/podcast/158-elbridge-colby-welcome-to-the-era-of-great/id1474687988?i=1000535266823&l=cs SEND US A TIP: https://app.swapstack.co/tips/the-realignment REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

For Day 12 of The Realignment's daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with Ian Buruma, historian and author of The Churchill Complex: The Curse of Being Special, from Winston and FDR to Trump and Brexit. They discuss how much our judgment of Zelensky, Biden, and Putin's performances are shaped by myths and lessons from Winston Churchill's leadership during World War II, along with mistakes made by the British and French when it came to confronting Hitler in 1938. SUPPORT/SEND US A TIP: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaE... REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

For Day 11 of The Realignment's daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with Stanford University history professor Ian Morris, author of Why the West Rules - For Now, War! What Is It Good For? and the upcoming Geography Is Destiny, joins to discuss his recent piece for Time : The Russian Strategy Guiding the Invasion of Ukraine. Ian's piece: https://time.com/6155129/russian-strategy-guiding-invasion-ukraine/ SUPPORT/SEND US A TIP: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaE... REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

For Day 10 of The Realignment's daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with retired U.S. Army Lt. Col John Nagl, counterinsurgency expert and visiting professor at the U.S. Army War College. John is the author of Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice, Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam and co-authored the U.S. Army and Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. They discuss how the study of past insurgencies instructs about Russia's ability to accomplish its military objectives in Ukraine. SUPPORT/SEND US A TIP: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaE... REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

For day 9 of The Realignment's daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall and Saagar speak with Christian Brose, Chief Strategy Officer at Anduril Industries, former Staff Director of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and author of The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare, joins The Realignment to discuss the state of the U.S. military as it faces down peer-competitors like Russia and China. SUPPORT/SEND US A TIP: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

For day 8, Ben Bowman, Tigard, Oregon school board chair, candidate for Oregon's House of Representatives, and Marshall's friend from college joins to discuss the Ukraine crisis through the lens of our recent coverage, plus, give a different perspective from Marshall and Saagar and getting engaged in the political system. SUPPORT/SEND US A TIP: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

For day eight of The Realignment's Ukraine coverage, historian Neil Lanctot, author of The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams and Their Clash Over America's Future, joins to discuss how the clash between Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Jane Addams over America's entry into World War I shaped the 20th century and redefined America's role in the world. Neil and Marshall discuss how each figures competing instinct: intervention, neutrality, and pacifism lives on in today's debates. SUPPORT/SEND US A TIP: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

Day Seven: Marshall and Saagar continue their one-on-one discussions of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. SUPPORT/SEND US A TIP: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

For day six of The Realignment's near-daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with Hal Brands, author of The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches About Great-Power Rivalry Today, John Hopkins University professor, AEI Resident Fellow, and Bloomberg columnist. They discussed America's successes and failures during the Cold War, how today's Russia and China differ from their 20th-century incarnations, what sacrifices a second cold war will demand, and more. SUPPORT/SEND US A TIP: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

For day five of The Realignment's near-daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall speaks with return Realignment guest and host of the Hidden Forces podcast about the current state of the Ukraine crisis Link to the Hidden Forces podcast: https://hiddenforces.io/ SUPPORT/SEND US A TIP: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

For day four of The Realignment's near-daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall speaks with return Realignment guest Alec Ross, author of The Raging 2020s: Companies, Country, People - and the Fight for Our Future and The Industries of the Future, joins The Realignment to discuss the factors and policies driving private sector companies into the geopolitical arena. SUPPORT/SEND US A TIP: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

For day three of The Realignment's near-daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with Dr. David Kilcullen, a theorist and practitioner of guerilla and unconventional warfare. They cover the present state of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and whether the conflict could transition into a drawn-out war of resistance/insurgency. Dr. Kilcullen's perspective is drawn from a 25-year career in the Australian Army and postings to the U.S. Defense and State Departments during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is a professor at Arizona State University and the University of New South Wales and the author of The Dragon and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West, The Ledger: Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan, Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerilla, Counterinsurgency, and The Accidental Guerilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One. SUPPORT/SEND US A TIP: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

Yesterday, Marshall and Saagar recorded their second one-on-one episode reacting to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and responding to audience questions. This is a part of The Realignment's daily Ukraine coverage. Submit any questions to [email protected]. SUPPORT/SEND US A TIP: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

Welcome to the first day of The Realignment's near-daily Ukraine coverage. For our first episode, Marshall interviews Nate Sibley, a Research Fellow at Hudson Institute's Kleptocracy Initiative. His research focuses on authoritarian regimes, transnational corruption, and U.S. national security. They discuss the rise and fall of Russia's oligarchs, why Putin's largely immune to financial sanctions, how economic warfare impacts Russian society, and more. SUPPORT/SEND US A TIP: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

Jimmy Soni, author of The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley, joins The Realignment to discuss how the PayPal mafia of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, David Sacks, Reid Hoffman, and countless others shaped Silicon Valley.

Hey everyone, just wanted to say that we pre-recorded tomorrow’s episode on PayPal, Elon Musk, and Peter Thiel before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began. Our producer’s going to be out of pocket, so we weren’t able to record an alternate episode. However, starting Wednesday, March 2nd, we’re going to significantly up our coverage of the Ukraine crisis. On Thursday, we’re going to host another Q&A/reaction show, so please send anything to [email protected].

Yesterday afternoon, Marshall and Saagar recorded an emergency podcast reacting to Putin's invasion of Ukraine and answered audience questions. SUPPORT/SEND US A TIP: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

Lisa Miller and Andrea González-Ramírez authors (among others) of Take Up Space: The Unprecedented AOC, join The Realignment to discuss what AOC’s rise and time in Congress means for the future of the progressive movement, the Millennials and Gen-Zs, and the questions raised by her successes and failures. SUPPORT/SEND US A TIP: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

Jeremy W. Peters, author of Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted, joins The Realignment to discuss how the transformation of the Republican Party during the Trump era shattered American politics. SUPPORT/SEND US A TIP: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

Demetri Kofinas, host of the Hidden Forces podcast, joins The Realignment to discuss the West’s future relationship with Ukraine, how to shut out the noise and think for yourself, and a broader discussion about the state of American politics and public discourse. Demetri’s Hidden Forces Episode with Marshall and Saagar: https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/saagar-enjeti-marshall-kosloff-realignment-narrative-reset/ SUPPORT/SEND US A TIP: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM

Kara Frederick, Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation and author of Combating Big Tech’s Totalitarianism: A Road Map, joins The Realignmen to discuss the right’s changing approach to tech, combatting terrorism and misinformation on social media, free speech, and more. Kara’s Report: https://www.heritage.org/technology/report/combating-big-techs-totalitarianism-road-map Link to Antonio’s Callin convo on 2/17 at 2:00 PM EST: https://www.callin.com/room/paypals-founders-on-the-new-paypal-book-the-hYyKmKzVxT SUPPORT/SEND US A TIP: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM

Peter S. Goodman, author of Davos Man: How Billionaires Devoured the World and Global Economics Correspondent at The New York Times, joins The Realignment to make the case that Wall Street and tech billionaires drove the destabilization and hollowing out of the American and global economy in the lead up to the COVID-19 pandemic. Liked this (or any other episode)? Send us a tip: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Visit our Bookshop storefront and support the show: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

Liked this (or any other episode)? Send us a tip: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Visit our Bookshop storefront and support the show: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Erich Schwartzel, film industry reporter at The Wall Street Journal and author of Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy, joins The Realignment to discuss the rise, fall, and future of Hollywood’s relationship with China.

Joseph Weisberg, the creator of FX’s The Americans, former CIA officer, and author of Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War, joins The Realignment to discuss how the U.S. should approach a conflict in Ukraine, how and when a second cold war began, what off-ramps look like, and how to assess and approach complicated issues. Liked this (or any other episode)? Send us a tip: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Visit our Bookshop storefront and support the show: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

Sebastian Mallaby, author of The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future, The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan, and More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite, joins The Realignment to offer a contrarian take on the importance of VC funds when it comes to technological progress, how VC-backed startups challenge big tech incumbents, and how China and the U.S. are pursuing different paths when it comes to regulating firms and the tech unicorns they fund. Liked this (or any other episode)? Send us a tip: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Visit our Bookshop storefront and support the show: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

Frank DiStefano, author of The Next Realignment: Why America’s Parties Are Crumbling and What Happens Next, returns to The Realignment for the third part of our series on what political realignments are, what they mean for the present, and how we can shape the system moving forward. Subscribe to Frank’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/FrankDiStefano Frank’s Interview with Andrew Yang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A2MSjz36GM Liked this (or any other episode)? Send us a tip: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Visit our Bookshop storefront and support the show: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

Liked this (or any other episode)? Send us a tip: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Check out our special Bookshop on Russian history: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-s-guide-to-russia We’re going to start experimenting with extended content on The Realignment. This episode features an extended Q&A section on audience capture, Ukraine, political narratives going into 2024, and whether the U.S. still has a compelling narrative in the 21st century. After, Geoffrey Cain, a FACET Fellow at Lincoln Network and author of The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future and Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech, joins The Realignment to discuss China’s controversial treatment of its Uyghur population in Xianjiang.

Send us questions for Tuesday’s Realignment Q&A episode: [email protected], reply to our Substack newsletter, or leaves us a 5-star review on Apple podcasts. Check out and subscribe to The Deep End before the new season launches in coming weeks: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-deep-end/id1568752165 Due to a misplaced driver’s license, Marshall’s trip back to NYC was delayed a day, so we, unfortunately, couldn’t record a fresh episode today. Instead, we decided to upload a previous interview from last year where Saagar appeared on The Deep End, Marshall’s other podcast focused on business, tech, and startups. Liked this (or any other episode)? Send us a tip: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM

Liked this (or any other episode)? Send us a tip: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Visit our Bookshop storefront and support the show: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Plus, here are the links to Jonathan’s Substack: https://theracket.news/ and his Gangsters Movie Night episode on Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay: https://theracket.news/p/gangsters-movie-night-harold-and Jonathan M. Katz, author of Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Remaking of America’s Empire and The Racket Substack, joins The Realignment to discuss the legacy of General Smedley Butler (the most decorated U.S. Marine in history) through the lens of his involvement in early 20th century interventions in Cuba, the Philippines, China, and Haiti, how we should reflect on America’s imperial legacy in the context of 21st century Chinese and Russian aggression, and how (or should) we evaluate present and future wars under his famous “War Is a Racket” speech/pamphlet.

Liked this (or any other episode)? Send us a tip: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Visit our Bookshop storefront and support the show: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Glenn Hubbard, author of The Wall and the Bridge: Fear and Opportunity in Disruption’s Wake, dean emeritus at Columbia Business School, and former chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers, joins The Realignment to discuss why populist “walls” aren’t the right responses to critiques of capitalism and the forces of technological change and globalization. Instead, he advocates for an agenda of “bridges” of preparation and adaption.

Liked this (or any other episode)? Send us a tip: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Visit our Bookshop storefront and support the show: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Christopher Leonard, author of The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Powe rin America, and The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business, joins The Realignment to argue that the Federal Reserve’s policies over the past decade have accelerated income inequality and put the country’s economic stability at risk.

Liked this (or any other episode)? Send us a tip: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Visit our Bookshop storefront and support the show: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Stephen Marche, author of The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future, joins The Realignment to discuss why he believes America is coming to an end, how the 21st century will make it difficult for nation-states to hold together, and why and how civil conflict could emerge from the country’s divisions.

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Greg Lukianoff, President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, joins The Realignment to discuss the differences between debates over political correctness in the 80s/90s and today, how “PC” is different from “wokeness,” and how speech fights play out on college campuses. Marshall and Saagar’s Book’s of the Year Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/lists/marshall-and-saagar-s-realignment-2021-books-of-the-year Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/

Marshall and Saagar’s Book’s of the Year Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/lists/marshall-and-saagar-s-realignment-2021-books-of-the-year Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Anne Helen Petersen and Charlie Warzel, authors of Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home and respective writers of the Culture Study and Galazy Brain newsletters, join The Realignment to discuss how work-from-home has *ahem* realigned the workplace, the great resignation, how financial crisis and pandemics will shape Millenials/Gen Z’s futures, and more.

Writer and attorney Mark Yzaguirre joins The Realignment to discuss our show’s original focus: cultural, economic, and political realignments are reshaping the right and left. Marshall and Saagar’s Book’s of the Year Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/lists/marshall-and-saagar-s-realignment-2021-books-of-the-year Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/

Steve Levine, editor of The Information’s ‘The Electric’ newsletter and author of The Powerhouse: America, China, and the Great Battery War, joins The Realignment to discuss the global competition to develop electric vehicle batteries, why China dominates the battery supply chains, and the state Tesla, Rivian, and the Big Three legacy automakers. Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Visit The Realignment’s Bookshop to support the show: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-bookshop

Matt Ridley, co-author (with postdoctoral researcher Alina Chan) of Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 and member of the United Kingdom’s House of Lords, joins The Realignment to discuss lessons from leading a decentralized scientific investigation into COVID’s origins, how the leading scientific journals, mainstream outlets, and governments have helped or stymied the investigation, what we currently do and don’t know about COVID’s origins, and why it matters. Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Visit The Realignment’s Bookshop to support the show: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-bookshop

Alex Kantrowitz, writer and host of the Big Technology Substack newsletter and podcast, returns to The Realignment to discuss post-Jack Dorsey Twitter, why the discourse’s moving on from Frances Haugen’s Facebook whistleblowing, and how to think about the transition from Web2 to Web3. Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Visit The Realignment’s Bookshop to support the show: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-bookshop

Kyle Strickland, Deputy Director, Race and Democracy at the Roosevelt Institute joins The Realignment to build upon last week’s episode with John McWhorter. Kyle is the co-author of a new report: A New Paradigm for Justice and Democracy: Moving Beyond the Twin Failures of Neoliberalism and Racial Liberalism. In this episode, he discusses the past, present, and future of the civil rights movement, the tie between race and class, and how 20th-century paradigms no longer provide the framework for governing the United States. Kyle Strickland and Felicia Wong’s paper on race and neoliberalism: https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/new-paradigm-for-justice-and-democracy-moving-beyond-the-twin-failures-of-neoliberalism-and-racial-liberalism/ Visit The Realignment’s Bookshop to support the show: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-bookshop

Today we’re featuring excerpts from our Realignment conference in Miami. The James Madison Institute’s Andrea O’Sullivan and Wired’s Gilad Edelman on the tensions between centralization and decentralization will define tech and politics. American Affairs’s Julius Krein, American Compass’s Wells King, and the Niskanen Center’s Samuel Hammond and the new right, populism, and the debate over neoliberalism. Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Visit The Realignment’s Bookshop to support the show: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-bookshop

Happy Thanksgiving Realignment listeners! From now on, whenever we release on holidays, we’re going to release (probably) non-political content that captures the holiday’s spirit and Marshall and Saagar’s interests. High on our priority list today/this weekend is catching up on all the different movies/shows we’ve missed this and last year, many of which are comic book-themed. In that spirit, today’s guest, Jeremy Dauber, professor of Jewish Literature and American Studies at Columbia University and author of American Comics: A History and Jewish Comedy: A Serious History, joins The Realignment to discuss the past, present, and future of American comics, why we’re stuck in a sequel/reboot spiral, and how culture war debates over diversity and representation are playing out in the pages of major comics.

John McWhorter, Columbia University professor, New York Times columnist, and author of Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America, joins the Realignment to discuss the state of civil rights discourse in America and how the country can move past our post-Summer 2020 stalemate. Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Visit The Realignment’s Bookshop to support the show and purchase Tim Marshall’s books: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-bookshop Listen to our bonus segment and learn more about Lincoln Network’s FACET Fellowship here: https://www.hackpolicy.org/facet Applications for Lincoln Network’s FACET Fellowship close on November 30, 2021.