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Ep 378Introducing 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/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] 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 on from merely describing "realignments" to actually articulating what should be done, lists some of his favorite episodes, and lays out all of the different ways to engage with the show.

Apr 4, 202317 min

Ep 377357 | 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/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] 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 working-class Red Wall, and constant leadership transitions upended British politics. They also tie Britain's political realignment to broader trends in Western politics from the United States to France and Italy.

Mar 30, 20231h 4m

Ep 376356 | 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/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] 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-left views on technology shape the Washington, DC debate, and how the CFIUS mandated sale of the gay dating app Grindr should inform today's policy debates.

Mar 28, 202359 min

Ep 375Realignment 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 War, and take listener questions on everything from Trump's 2024 chances to how one builds policy "consensus" around big issues.

Mar 24, 202324 min

Ep 374Iraq 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/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] 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 min

Ep 373355 | 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/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] 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 security implications of the AI race, and how the United States, Europe, and China plan to dominate the emerging field.

Mar 21, 202346 min

Ep 372354 | 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: https://realignment.supercast.com/.REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected]

Mar 16, 202354 min

Ep 371353 | 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/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] 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 and Marshall discuss how her critique of consulting fits into her previous work on the future of capitalism, the failures of "expert" consultants in business and government, from Healthcare.gov to COVID, and what a reformed role for the industry looks like.

Mar 14, 202349 min

Ep 370Realignment 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 min

Ep 369352 | 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/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] 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 biggest stories of the Trump presidency, what independent and alternative media gets right (and wrong), and what shifting business models mean for the future of political coverage.

Mar 9, 202354 min

Ep 368351 | 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 overwhelming governmental response in 2020 indicates a changed approach to future crashes.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/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected]

Mar 7, 202353 min

Ep 367350 | 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/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] 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 "market fundamentalism" is at the center of America's economic, political, and social ills.

Mar 3, 202350 min

Ep 366349 | 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://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected]

Mar 2, 202329 min

Ep 365348 | 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/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] 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 Great Power Conflict, returns to The Realignment to follow up on last year's episode on what Russia's invasion of Ukraine means for Taiwan. Elbridge and Marshall discuss whether the U.S. can "walk and chew gum at the same time," what a "Twelve-Step" program for revitalizing the defense industrial base looks like, and how the U.S. can deter conflict in the Asia-Pacific region.

Feb 28, 202358 min

Ep 364347 | 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/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] 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 Afghanistan and Iraq, innovation lessons from the war in Ukraine, the impact of technological change, and how large organizations such as the Department of Defense can solve critical problems at startup speed.

Feb 24, 20231h 2m

Ep 363346 | 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/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] 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 coming undone, the nature of our systemic crisis, what critics of capitalism and democracy get right (and wrong), and why democratic capitalism is superior to the alternatives.

Feb 23, 202351 min

Ep 362345 | 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/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] 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 American Conservative’s Helen Andrews on the future of family policy, Danny O’Brien of the Filecoin Foundation on the case for radical decentralization, and the 1517 Fund’s Michael Gibson on the rise and fall of the “Paper Belt.”

Feb 21, 20231h 24m

Ep 361344 | 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: https://www.titansofnuclear.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] Kugelmass, Founder and CEO of Last Energy and host of the Titans of Nuclear podcast, joins The Realignment to discuss his plans to bring nuclear energy to scale, where the nuclear power industry went wrong after Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, how to reduce the cost of constructing nuclear power plants, and the degree to which concerns over safety should shape energy policy.

Feb 17, 20231h 2m

Ep 360343 | 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/featuredREALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] Ramamurthy and Sriram Krishnan, investors and hosts of The Good Time Show, join Saagar and Marshall on The Realignment to discuss all things tech and Silicon Valley. They cover the implications of ChatGPT and the rise of AI, their critiques of mainstream media's tech coverage, where crypto goes from the crash, the future of social media, and more...

Feb 16, 20231h 16m

Ep 359Realignment Discussion + Ask Me Anything: Saagar & Marshall on the GOP Primary, UFOs, a Senate Retirement, and Take Listener Questions (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.The ‘CEO of Anti-Woke Inc.’ Has His Eye on the Presidency

Feb 15, 202324 min

Ep 358342 | Trump's Last Defense Secretary on Cutting the Pentagon Budget, Base Closures, Forever War Accountability, and New Threats with Christopher C. Miller

Christopher C. Miller, former Trump administration Acting Secretary of Defense, retired Army Green Beret, and author of Soldier Secretary: Warnings from the Battlefield & the Pentagon About America's Most Dangerous Enemies, joins The Realignment to discuss his time in the Trump administration, his special forces career during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, how the Pentagon does (and doesn't) work, and his call for major cuts to the defense budget along with a broader reorientation of America's troop presence abroad. 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/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected]

Feb 14, 20231h 0m

Ep 357341 | The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America with Philip Bump

Philip Bump, author of The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America and Washington Post National Columnist, joins The Realignment to discuss how the of the transition of political, cultural, and economic from Baby Boomers to younger generations will fundamentally reshape 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/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected]

Feb 10, 202351 min

Ep 356340 | Is a "Bill of Obligations" the Answer to America's Turmoil? with Richard Haass

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/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected]. Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations and author of The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens, joins The Realignment to discuss his view that America's greatest threats are internal, not external, the case for a revitalized conception of citizenship, why we should place obligations on the same footing as rights, and his time leading the CFR during the aftermath of the Iraq War.

Feb 9, 202355 min

Ep 355339 | The Realignment x Moment of Zen: Silicon Valley & DC, Trump vs DeSantis, and the future of media & politics

Video of today's episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9K1tzlNY9UMoment of Zen Audio: https://moment-of-zen.simplecast.com/Moment of Zen's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MomentofZenPodcastIn a crossover episode, Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) and Marshall Kosloff (@makosloff) of The Realignment (@therealignment) join Moment of Zen's Dan Romero (@dwr), Antonio Garcia Martinez (@antoniogm) and Erik Torenberg (@eriktorenberg) for a discussion on tech, politics, and media.

Feb 7, 20231h 5m

Ep 354338 | How to Fix America's "Underpants Gnomes" Problem with Frank DiStefano

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/therealignmentFrank's Realignment-Themed YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@FrankDiStefanoEmail us at: [email protected] Distefano, author of The Next Realignment: Why America's Parties Are Crumbling and What Happens Next, joins The Realignment to discuss his reaction to "The Realignment Live," how a South Park episode about underwear-stealing gnomes from the 1990s explains the American political system's blinds pots, the central "debate" that defines the realignment moment, and how politicians can evolve to meet the moment.

Feb 3, 20231h 12m

Ep 353337 | The Realignment Live Part II: Kevin Roberts, John Burtka, Kristen Soltis Anderson, Nate Hochman, Saurabh Sharma, & Chris Griswold

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/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] week, Marshall and Saagar hosted The Realignment Live! in Washington, DC. Today's episode features multiple sessions including the Heritage Foundation's Kevin Roberts and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's John Burtka on the future of the right, Echelon Insight's Kristen Soltis Anderson on the GOP's struggles with young voters, National Review's Nate Hochman and American Moment's Saurabh Sharma on the Gen-Z right, and Chris Griswold of American Compass on the realignment of conservative economics.

Feb 2, 20232h 7m

Ep 352336 | The Realignment Live Part I: Matt Stoller, Julius Krein, Elbridge Colby, Jane Coaston, Yuval Levin, and Jason Willick

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/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] week, Marshall and Saagar hosted The Realignment Live! in Washington, DC. Today's episode features multiple sessions including American Economic Liberties Project's Matt Stoller and American Affairs' Julius Krein on whether the "realignment" is real, the Marathon Initiative's Elbridge Colby on the right's foreign policy debates after Ukraine, the New York Times' Jane Coaston on the dynamics driving America's political system, and the American Enterprise Institute's Yuval Levin and the Washington Post's Jason Willick on the right's relationship with democracy in the 2020s.

Jan 31, 20232h 6m

Ep 351335 | America's Pacific Power Paradox and the Roots of Asia's Instability with Van Jackson

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/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] Jackson, author of Pacific Power Paradox: American Statecraft and the Fate of Asian Peace, joins The Realignment to discuss why he believes the U.S. is often the source of threats to peace in the Asia-Pacific, rather than the bulwark against instability, alternate security arrangements that aren't reliant on American primacy, the cost of the foreign policy "blob's" lack of focus on political economy, and the future of progressive foreign policy

Jan 27, 20231h 3m

Ep 350334 | Is Main Street Conservatism the Future of the Right? with Helen Andrews & Emile Doak

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/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] Andrews and Emile Doak, co-editors of Main Street Conservatism: The Future of the Right - Lessons from 20 Years of the American Conservative, join The Realignment as a tie-in to yesterday's "Realignment Live" event. They discuss the right's political realignment through the lenses of American culture, political economy, foreign policy, and faith & family, why the issues that drove Trump's election aren't going away, and argue their brand of "main street" conservatism is the only way to bridge the chasm between voters and the DC professional class.

Jan 25, 20231h 4m

Ep 349333 | Inside the New House China Select Committee with Rep. Mike Gallagher

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/JOIN MARSHALL & SAAGAR AT OUR LIVE CONFERENCE IN DC ON 1/25/2023: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/realignment-live-tickets-443348436107?aff=erelexpmltPURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] Mike Gallagher, the newly-appointed chairman of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, returns to The Realignment. He discusses his vision for the select committee, how to avoid a catastrophic military conflict in the Pacific, objections to the committee raised by progressive Democrats, and how the Pentagon should navigate culture war controversies. Plus, Congressman Gallagher offers Marshall some advice on how to get the most bang for his buck at his upcoming nuptials.

Jan 24, 20231h 0m

Ep 348332 | How the Congo's Cobalt Fuels Electric Vehicles, Batteries, and Modern-Day Slavery with Siddharth Kara

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/JOIN MARSHALL & SAAGAR AT OUR LIVE CONFERENCE IN DC ON 1/25/2023: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/realignment-live-tickets-443348436107?aff=erelexpmltPURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] Kara, author of Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives, joins The Realignment to discuss the role cobalt plays in lithium batteries that power everything from laptops, phones, and electric vehicles, how the concentration of the world's vital cobalt supply in the Congo leads to the exploitation of workers, and offers a road map for how corporations can clean up their global supply chains.

Jan 20, 20231h 2m

Ep 347331 | One Small Step Towards a Fusion Energy Breakthrough with Charles Seife

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/JOIN MARSHALL & SAAGAR AT OUR LIVE CONFERENCE IN DC ON 1/25/2023: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/realignment-live-tickets-443348436107?aff=erelexpmltPURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected]'s Atlantic Article: Is This the ‘Kitty Hawk Moment’ for Fusion Energy?Charles Seife, author of Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking, joins The Realignment to discuss last month's announcement by the Department of Energy of a successful controlled nuclear fusion reaction. Charles and Marshall separate the promise of "near limitless, clean energy" from the hype, explore why for six decades, fusion energy has always been "20 years away," the steep hurdles to a commercial reactor, and the role of moonshot scientific projects play in meeting the world's energy needs.

Jan 19, 202359 min

Ep 346Realignment Q&A Mailbag: Does Davos/the World Economic Forum Matter, the Gilded Age and Today's Politics, Dungeons & Dragons, and Neocon Thoughts? (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.

Jan 18, 20236 min

Ep 345330 | Does Great Power Equal Responsibility? America and the World from WWI to Ukraine with Robert Kagan

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/JOIN MARSHALL & SAAGAR AT OUR LIVE CONFERENCE IN DC ON 1/25/2023: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/realignment-live-tickets-443348436107?aff=erelexpmltPURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] Kagan, author of The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941, joins The Realignment to discuss how the U.S. responded to the collapse of world order during and after WWI, how the acquisition of economic and military power permanently shifted America's relationship to Europe and Asia, debates over intervention, and how the pre-WWII period rhymes with today's conflicts.

Jan 17, 20231h 4m

Ep 344329 | Saagar & Marshall on Congress, Airline Debacles, & Taiwan + John Lettieri on Non-Competes and American Dynamism

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/.JOIN MARSHALL & SAAGAR AT OUR LIVE CONFERENCE IN DC ON 1/25/2023: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/realignment-live-tickets-443348436107?aff=erelexpmltCSIS Taiwan Wargame Results: The First Battle of the Next War: Wargaming a Chinese Invasion of TaiwanEIG's American Dynamism ReportREALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] and Marshall discuss Speaker Kevin McCarthy and the new Republican House majority, the lessons of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's tenure, and the results of a wargame focused on a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Afterward, Marshall interviews Economic Innovation Group President and Chief Executive Officer John Lettieri about the FTC's proposed rule banning non-competes in the workplace and EIG's approach to restoring dynamism in the American economy.

Jan 13, 20231h 28m

Ep 343328 | The Pentagon Isn't Ready for the New World of Disruptive Innovation with Steve Blank

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/.JOIN MARSHALL & SAAGAR AT OUR LIVE CONFERENCE IN DC ON 1/25/2023: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/realignment-live-tickets-443348436107?aff=erelexpmltSteve Blank's Stanford class: Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] Blank, co-founder of the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation, Stanford adjunct professor, and former Defense Business Board member, joins The Realignment to discuss why the Department of Defense is built for a world that no longer exists, how and why the U.S. finds itself in an undeclared "crisis," the case for sweeping reform, the implications and nature of disruptive technology, and why the Pentagon continues to fail its audits.

Jan 12, 20231h 11m

Ep 342Realignment Q&A Mailbag | The Return of Serious Politics? Speaker Drama and Realignments, ChatGPT, 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.

Jan 11, 20235 min

Ep 341327 | Welcome to 2023 - Navigating Political & Market Chaos with Bradley Tusk

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/.JOIN MARSHALL & SAAGAR AT OUR LIVE CONFERENCE IN DC ON 1/25/2023: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/realignment-live-tickets-443348436107?aff=erelexpmltBradley's New Manhattan Bookstore: P&T Knitwear REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] Tusk, CEO and co-founder of Tusk Ventures, returns to The Realignment to discuss Speaker Kevin McCarthy's election debacle, the prospects for Congressional Democrats and Republicans in 2023, the state of the post-boom tech industry, crypto post-SBF, and offers several predictions for 2023.

Jan 10, 20231h 0m

Ep 340326 | Ian Kershaw: The Personalities Who Built and Destroyed Modern Europe

This episode is a part of The Realignment's daily end-of-year coverage of the themes and topics that defined 2022. JOIN MARSHALL & SAAGAR AT OUR LIVE CONFERENCE IN DC ON 1/25/2023: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/realignment-live-tickets-443348436107?aff=erelexpmltSubscribe 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/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] Kershaw, author of Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe, Hitler: A Biography, and The Global Age: Europe, 1950-2017, joins The Realignment to discuss how the characters and personalities of individual 20th-century European leaders led to triumph and tragedy. Ian and Marshall also discuss his evaluations of despots ranging from Hitler, Stalin, and Lenin to democratic leaders such as de Gaulle, Churchill, and Adenauer, and how we should approach today's authoritarian leaders.

Dec 14, 202237 min

Ep 339325 | Shannon K. O'Neil: The Globalization Myth - Why Regions Matter

This episode is a part of The Realignment's daily end-of-year coverage of the themes and topics that defined 2022. 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/JOIN MARSHALL & SAAGAR AT OUR LIVE CONFERENCE IN DC ON 1/25/2023: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/realignment-live-tickets-443348436107?aff=erelexpmltPURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] K. O'Neil, author of The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter, joins The Realignment to discuss why the conventional story of globalization since the 1980s is wrong, why companies, money, ideas, and people looked regionally, not globally, how three regional hubs (North America, Europe, and Asia) will dominate the next decade(s), who will get left behind, and how the U.S. can lean into its regional strengths.

Dec 13, 202247 min

Ep 338324 | Paul Millerd: Imagining a New Story for Work with the Pathless Path

This episode is a part of The Realignment's daily end-of-year coverage of the themes and topics that defined 2022. 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/JOIN MARSHALL & SAAGAR AT OUR LIVE CONFERENCE IN DC ON 1/25/2023: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/realignment-live-tickets-443348436107?aff=erelexpmltPURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] Millerd, author of The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story for Work, joins The Realignment to discuss the future of work and career advancement in a fast-changing world. Marshall and Paul discuss economic and workplace tumult post-COVID, recent layoffs across the tech sector, and how his story transitioning from high-powered consulting and an MBA offers a model for those seeking to embark on new paths outside our increasingly tracked society.

Dec 12, 202259 min

Ep 337323 | James Rickards: How Broken Supply Chains Will Sink the Global Economy

This episode is a part of The Realignment's daily end-of-year coverage of the themes and topics that defined 2022. 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/JOIN MARSHALL & SAAGAR AT OUR LIVE CONFERENCE IN DC ON 1/25/2023: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/realignment-live-tickets-443348436107?aff=erelexpmltPURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] Rickards, author of Sold Out: How Broken Supply Chains, Surging Inflation, and Political Instability Will Sink the Global Economy, joins The Realignment to discuss how and why the global supply chain crunch began long before COVID, the entanglement of economics and geopolitics, why reforms/fixes to the status quo aren't enough, and what the emerging, regionally-focused "Supply Chain 2.0" will look like.

Dec 9, 202240 min

Ep 336322 | Jeremi Suri: America's Unfinished War Over Democracy

This episode is a part of The Realignment's daily end-of-year coverage of the themes and topics that defined 2022. 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/JOIN MARSHALL & SAAGAR AT OUR LIVE CONFERENCE IN DC ON 1/25/2023: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/realignment-live-tickets-443348436107?aff=erelexpmltPURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] Suri, author of Civil War by Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy and The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office, joins The Realignment to discuss the history of debates over how America should implement its democratic ideals. Jeremi and Marshall also discuss how and why the "democracy" issue defined the midterms in battleground states, expanding responsiveness within the political system, and his critiques of the status quo.

Dec 8, 202259 min

Ep 335321 | Beverly Gage: How the FBI and Its Politics Shaped the American Century

This episode is a part of The Realignment's daily end-of-year coverage of the themes and topics that defined 2022. 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/JOIN MARSHALL & SAAGAR AT OUR LIVE CONFERENCE IN DC ON 1/25/2023: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/realignment-live-tickets-443348436107?aff=erelexpmltPURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] Gage, 20th-century American History Professor at Yale and author of G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, joins The Realignment to discuss how J. Edgar Hoover's tenure as FBI director shaped American history, politicized federal law enforcement, and how today's bureau navigates its hyper-political challenges like the Mar-a-Lago raid and the Trump presidency.

Dec 7, 202243 min

Ep 334320 | Trae Stephens: Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy

This episode is a part of The Realignment's daily end-of-year coverage of the themes and topics that defined 2022. Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/.Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy: https://www.rebootingthearsenal.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/JOIN MARSHALL & SAAGAR AT OUR LIVE CONFERENCE IN DC ON 1/25/2023: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/realignment-live-tickets-443348436107?aff=erelexpmltPURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] Stephens, Co-Founder of Anduril and Partner at Founders Fund, joins The Realignment's daily end-of-year coverage to discuss Anduril's mission document: Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy. Trae and Marshall discuss the defense industrial base vulnerabilities exposed by the war in Ukraine, how technology can deter aggression, and how to address challenges rising from outdated systems to the spiraling defense budget.

Dec 6, 202258 min

Ep 333319 | Frank Dikötter: Shattering the Myths of China After Mao

This episode is a part of The Realignment's daily end-of-year coverage of the themes and topics that defined 2022. 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/JOIN MARSHALL & SAAGAR AT OUR LIVE CONFERENCE IN DC ON 1/25/2023: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/realignment-live-tickets-443348436107?aff=erelexpmltPURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] Frank Dikötter, author of China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower and The People's Trilogy, joins The Realignment to discuss how unprecedented access to Chinese archives during the brief 2000s-2010s period of openness offers a corrective to the conventional wisdom in the West about China's post-1976 ambitions. Frank and Marshall also cover what questions future researchers should study should the archives ever open again, particularly relating to Zero-COVID.

Dec 5, 20221h 12m

Ep 332318 | Noah Smith: Vibe Shifting Out of the Long 2010s

Noah Smith's Substack: https://noahpinion.substack.com/Vibe Shift Piece: https://www.thecut.com/2022/02/a-vibe-shift-is-coming.htmlSubscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/.REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/JOIN MARSHALL & SAAGAR AT OUR LIVE CONFERENCE IN DC ON 1/25/2023: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/realignment-live-tickets-443348436107?aff=erelexpmltPURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] Smith, author of the Noahpinion Substack, joins The Realignment's end-of-the-year daily series to discuss why 2022 *actually* feels like the end of the long 2010s that began with the response to the 2008 financial crisis and the election of President Barack Obama, how 2010s upheavals reshaped American politics, and why the remainder of the 2020s will be defined by "exhaustion."

Dec 2, 20221h 11m

Ep 331317 | Saagar & Marshall's 2022 Year-in-Review: China Protests & Zero COVID, the End of History Returns, and Is America Politically Exhausted?

JOIN MARSHALL & SAAGAR AT OUR LIVE CONFERENCE IN DC ON 1/25/2023: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/realignment-live-tickets-443348436107?aff=erelexpmltSubscribe 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/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] and Marshall kick off The Realignment's End-of-Year coverage with a discussion of the issues that defined 2022: the rising backlash against China's Zero COVID policy, how liberal democracy fared against its authoritarian rivals, where the culture war stands post-midterms, and how political exhaustion could define the rest of the decade.

Dec 1, 202251 min

Ep 330316 | William D. Cohan: The Rise & Unimaginable Fall of General Electric, America's Iconic Corporation

JOIN MARSHALL & SAAGAR AT OUR LIVE CONFERENCE IN DC ON 1/25/2023: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/realignment-live-tickets-443348436107?aff=erelexpmltSubscribe 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/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] D. Cohan, founding partner of Puck, writer at large for Airmail, former investment banker, and author of Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon, joins The Realignment to discuss his autopsy of General Electric, from its founding by Thomas Edison to its fall in the 2010s, the keys to impactful business journalism in an age of scandals from SBF/FTX to Elizabeth Holmes, and where responsibility for the GE's fall lies.

Nov 29, 20221h 1m

Ep 329315 | David Sax: The Over-Hyped Digital World and Why Our Future Is Analog

JOIN MARSHALL & SAAGAR AT OUR LIVE CONFERENCE IN DC ON 1/25/2023: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/realignment-live-tickets-443348436107?aff=erelexpmltSubscribe 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/therealignmentEmail us at: [email protected] Sax (not the All-In Podcast host/VC), author of The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World and The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter, joins The Realignment to discuss why early-COVID promises of digital transformation were over-hyped in work, commerce, health/fitness, and our personal lives and what a proper balance of analog and digital experiences looks like.

Nov 22, 20221h 1m