The Realignment

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 Mar 20, 2022
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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.

Episode Date
467 | Annie Jacobsen: What the Threat of Nuclear War Means for the Era of Great Power Competition
Mar 28, 2024
466 | Tim Carney: Are Falling Birth Rates the Result of a "Family Unfriendly" American Culture?
Mar 26, 2024
Saagar & Marshall Supercast AMA & Discussion Preview: Candace Owens and the Daily Wire Split Up, Societal Damage from Smartphones, Underrated Presidents, and More...
Mar 24, 2024
465 | Admiral James Stavridis and Elliot Ackerman: How AI, Biotech, and Geopolitics Will Define the 21st Century
Mar 21, 2024
464 | Saleha Mohsin: How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order
Mar 19, 2024
463 | Jim Sciutto: Has Great Power Conflict Set Us on the Path to the Next World War?
Mar 14, 2024
462 | Frank H. McCourt, Jr.: How Decentralization Can Fight Big Tech & Reclaim the Internet's Promise
Mar 12, 2024
Saagar & Marshall Supercast AMA & Discussion Preview: Biden State of the Union Reaction, Contrasting WWII Leadership with Today's, Unpacking Cal Newport's Spatial Computing Vision, and More...
Mar 10, 2024
461 | Lucas Vaz: Navigating Decaying Infrastructure, Failing Institutions, and Geopolitical Threats with “Critical Software”
Mar 07, 2024
460 | Cal Newport: Why the Obsession with "Pseudo-Productivity" is Driving Knowledge Worker Revolts and Burnout
Mar 05, 2024
459 | Steve Coll: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Perils of Misreading Dictator's Ambitions
Feb 29, 2024
458 | Carlos Lozada: How to Read Politics & Politicians - What Books Say About Power, Personalities, and Washington
Feb 27, 2024
457 | Jacob Heilbrunn: From Isolationism to America First - Does the American Right Have a Foreign Dictator Problem?
Feb 22, 2024
456 | Alexander Ward: Biden's Internationalists, Trump's Nationalists, and the Fight for the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy
Feb 20, 2024
Saagar & Marshall Supercast AMA & Discussion Preview: Apple Vision Pro Review, Will AI Video Kill Hollywood?, What We're Reading, Good Vibes, Bad Policy, and More...
Feb 18, 2024
455 | Sarah Scoles: What Does the Future Hold for America's Nuclear Arsenal?
Feb 15, 2024
454 | Jeffrey Rosen: How the Education of the Founders Can Inspire the Next Generation of American Leaders
Feb 13, 2024
453 | Benn Steil: The Rise & Fall of Henry Wallace and the Inevitability of the Cold War
Feb 08, 2024
452 | Jerry Hendrix: The Age of U.S. Naval Dominance Is Over
Feb 06, 2024
451 | Jonathan Blitzer: The Central American Origins of the Border Crisis
Feb 01, 2024
450 | Nicholas Dirks: The Uses and Abuses of the University - Where Does Higher Ed Go from Here?
Jan 30, 2024
Supercast AMA & Discussion Preview: GOP Heads to SC, Mass Media Layoffs, Texas Border Standoff, AMA, and More...
Jan 28, 2024
449 | Noah Smith: 2024's Stakes, Rebuilding the Arsenal of Democracy, and How to Get Industrial Policy Back on Track
Jan 25, 2024
448 | Benjamin Herold: Are America's Schools and Suburbs Unraveling?
Jan 23, 2024
447 | Nick Romeo: The Public Rejects the Status Quo. What is the Alternative?
Jan 18, 2024
446 | Tina Nguyen: How the Conservative Movement Went MAGA
Jan 16, 2024
Supercast Preview: 2024 Reading Goals, Yemen Strikes, Taiwan's Election, the GOP Primary Kicks Off, Audience AMA, and More...
Jan 14, 2024
445 | Arun Gupta: Venture Meets Mission - How Mission-Driven Capitalism Can Solve Societal Challenges
Jan 12, 2024
444 | Joshua Green: AOC, Bernie, & Warren - The Left Populist Struggle for a New American Politics
Jan 11, 2024
443 | Yaroslav Trofimov: Will 2024 Bring Victory, Defeat, or Stalemate in Ukraine?
Jan 09, 2024
442 | Heather Jo Richman: The AUKUS Partnership and How the U.S., U.K., and Australia Can Invest in Dual-Use Technologies
Dec 22, 2023
FAI Presents | Jennifer Pahlka & Michael Kratsios : From Tech to Government and Back Again
Dec 21, 2023
441 | Matthew George: Human-Machine Partnership and the Case for Autonomous Flight
Dec 19, 2023
Recap and AMA - Free Edition | Marshall & Saagar on 2024 Optimism, Zelensky's Visit to DC, Biden vs. Trump, the Vibecession, and More...
Dec 17, 2023
440 | Ryan Grim: What's Next for AOC and the Squad?
Dec 15, 2023
439 | John Brennan: The AI Future We Were Promised Is Finally Here
Dec 14, 2023
438 | Mike Slagh: The Case for Building American Civil-Military Fusion
Dec 12, 2023
RE: Something Interesting | Johnny Smith on What Michael Jordan Meant for 1990s America, the Colorblind Racial Ideal, and Sports in Politics
Dec 09, 2023
437 | Joe Lonsdale: The Role of Defense Technology in a New Era of Conflict
Dec 08, 2023
436 | Shyam Sankar: From the "Last Supper" to the "First Breakfast" - How 30 Years of Consolidation & Financialization Broke the Defense Industry
Dec 07, 2023
435 | Tim Alberta: Will Trump's Alliance with Evangelicals Lead to Victory in 2024?
Dec 05, 2023
RE: Something Interesting | Jason Del Rey on the Future of Black Friday and Holiday Sales, In-Person vs. Online Commerce, and How Amazon & Walmart Are Redefining How We Shop
Dec 02, 2023
434 | Ben Mezrich: Will Elon Musk Make or Break X?
Dec 01, 2023
433 | Adam Hammer: Funding and Scaling the Breakthrough Tech America Needs to Win the 21st Century
Nov 30, 2023
432 | Jennifer Burns: Is the Milton Friedman Era Over?
Nov 28, 2023
Recap and AMA - Free Edition | Marshall on Thanksgiving, How to Ask Questions, the Death of Black Friday, and the Best Subscription Offerings
Nov 26, 2023
RE: Something Interesting | Doug Melville on Family & Ancestry through the Legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen and America's First Black Generals
Nov 25, 2023
431 | Ganesh Sitaraman: Why Flying Is Miserable - And How to Fix It
Nov 21, 2023
RE: Something Interesting | Garrett M. Graff on What the Government Really Knows About UFOs, UAPs, and the Case for Extraterrestrial Life
Nov 18, 2023
430 | Ryan Craig: How Apprenticeships Will Create a Stronger and Fairer America
Nov 17, 2023
429 | John Gray: How Post-Liberal Thought Can Unpack the Chaotic and Terrifying 2020s
Nov 16, 2023
428 | Tim Marshall: The Astropolitics Era - The U.S., China, Russia, Elon Musk, and the New Space Race
Nov 14, 2023
Recap and Audience AMA - Free Edition: Marshall & Saagar on 2024 Predictions, Critiquing Gen Z, Why All-In Works, and More...
Nov 12, 2023
RE: Something Interesting | Max Marshall on a Fraternity Crime Bust, Xanax Rings, and Coming of Age on Campus in the 2010s
Nov 11, 2023
427 | John B. Judis & Ruy Teixeira: Where Did the Democrats Go Wrong?
Nov 10, 2023
426 | Moshik Temkin: The Art of Leadership in an Era of Crisis and Generational Change
Nov 09, 2023
425 | Patrick Ruffini: Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP
Nov 07, 2023
424 | David Adler & Bill Bonvillian: America's Advanced Manufacturing Problem - and How to Fix It
Nov 03, 2023
423 | Gilman Louie: How America Can Win the Frontier Technology Renaissance
Nov 02, 2023
422 | David M. Herszenhorn: Alexey Navalny, the Dissident of Putin's Russia - Does the Dream of a Democratic Russia Live On?
Oct 31, 2023
Recap and Audience AMA - Free Edition | Marshall & Saagar on the Launch of the Invasion of Gaza
Oct 29, 2023
421 | Stuart A. Reid: The Lumumba Plot - The Secret History of the CIA, a Cold War Assassination, and Decolonization
Oct 27, 2023
420 | Nikhil Goyal: Child Poverty Doubled Last Year - What Does that Mean for Our Safety Net?
Oct 26, 2023
419 | Melissa Kearney: Two-Parent Privilege - The Decline of Marriage and the Fracturing of America
Oct 24, 2023
418 | Bethany McLean: How COVID Exposed a Hollowed-Out and Sickly America
Oct 20, 2023
417 | Seth D. Kaplan: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time
Oct 19, 2023
416 | Rikki Schlott: The Cancel Culture Debate After the Hamas Massacre
Oct 17, 2023
Weekly Recap and Audience AMA - Free Edition | Marshall & Saagar on Gaza, Hamas, and Israel
Oct 15, 2023
415 | James Pethokoukis: Conservative Futurism & Up Wing Politics - Building the Sci-Fi Future We We're Promised
Oct 13, 2023
Marshall & Saagar Weekend Special | Submit Your Questions for a Israel, Hamas, and Gaza Themed Episode
Oct 12, 2023
414 | Oren Cass: Is the GOP's Pro-Worker Economic Policy Realignment Underway?
Oct 10, 2023
413 | Nabila Ramdani: Fixing France - How to Save a Broken Republic
Oct 06, 2023
412 | Yonah Jeremy Bob: Iran's Nuclear Program, the Abraham Accords, and the New Middle East
Oct 05, 2023
411 | Vincent Bevins: Why Didn't a Decade of Global Mass Protests Lead to Revolutionary Change?
Oct 03, 2023
410 | Thomas P.M. Barnett: How Globalization, North-South Migration, Climate Change, and Demographic Collapse Will Define America's New Map
Sep 28, 2023
409 | Yascha Mounk: The Identity Trap - Why New Group Identity & Social Justice Ideas Failed to Transform America
Sep 26, 2023
408 | Mathias Döpfner: Escaping the Trade Trap - How to Stop Doing Business with Dictators
Sep 21, 2023
407 | Cenk Uygur: The Future of the Progressive Movement in Joe Biden's (or Donald Trump's) America
Sep 19, 2023
406 | Zeke Faux: Inside Sam Bankman-Fried & Crypto's Rise and Fall
Sep 15, 2023
405 | Loren Grush: The Artemis Moon Mission & NASA's Past, Present, and Future
Sep 14, 2023
404 | Coco Krumme: The False Promise of Optimization - Plus, Saagar & Marshall on the Biden Presidency
Sep 12, 2023
403 | Kevin Vallier: Integralism & the Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism
Sep 08, 2023
402 | Jonathan Taplin: Reality vs. Dystopia - The Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, & Crypto
Sep 07, 2023
401 | Franklin Foer: Inside the Biden White House & the Struggle for America's Future
Sep 05, 2023
400 | Mauro F. Guillén: The Megatrends Creating a Post-Generational America
Aug 31, 2023
399 | Robert D. Kaplan: America Between Empire & Anarchy in the Greater Middle East
Aug 29, 2023
398 | Kathryn Cramer Brownell: The Rise and Fall of the Cable News Era
Aug 24, 2023
397 | Jerry Dunleavy & James Hasson: Two Years After the Fall of Kabul - Was the Chaotic Withdrawal Inevitable?
Aug 22, 2023
Podcast Premiere | Arsenal of Democracy: America Is Not in Decline, but It Needs Help (feat. Walter Russell Mead)
Aug 17, 2023
396 | Sohrab Ahmari: Post-Liberalism and the Threat of Private Tyranny
Aug 15, 2023
Realignment Supercast AMA Teaser | John Lovell Interview Critiques, Government Role in NCAA Realignments, Robert Caro's Legacy, Adversity Scores in College Admissions, and More...
Aug 11, 2023
395 | David Lipsky: Climate Change, the Culture Wars, and the Path to Denial
Aug 10, 2023
394 | Ben Ansell: Why Politics Fails
Aug 08, 2023
393 | John Lovell: Confronting the Crisis Facing America's Men and Boys
Aug 03, 2023
392 | Derek Leebaert: FDR's "Unlikely Heroes" and America's Triumph Over the Great Depression and WWII
Aug 01, 2023
391 | Larry Kramer: America After Neoliberalism
Jul 27, 2023
390 | Amy Finkelstein: How to Tear Down the Broken Healthcare System
Jul 25, 2023
Realignment Supercast AMA Teaser | Bidenomics Review, Saagar's Wedding, Vivek's Rising Polls, Modern Church Committee, and More...
Jul 21, 2023
389 | Megan Reiss: The New Era of Geopolitical Risk - How AI Can Fix Supply Chains
Jul 20, 2023
388 | Neil Howe: The Fourth Turning Is Here - How America's Crisis Will End
Jul 18, 2023
387 | Richard Kahlenberg: Class-Based Solutions to America's Housing and Education Problems
Jul 13, 2023
386 | Michael R. Gordon: The U.S. Isn't Ready for Great Power Conflict - And the Iraq War(s) That Led It There
Jul 11, 2023
385 | Wesley Lowery: Backlash Politics from Obama 2008 to the Summer of 2020 and Beyond
Jul 06, 2023
384 | Peter Turchin: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration
Jul 04, 2023
383 | Sean A. Mirski: How the USA's Rise to Regional Hegemony Rhymes with China's
Jun 29, 2023
382 | Robert Lighthizer: Building the New Pro-Worker Trade Consensus
Jun 27, 2023
Vacation Programming Note | We'll Be Back Next Week
Jun 23, 2023
#381 | Michael G. Vickers: Intel, Special, Ops, & Strategy from the CIA's War in Afghanistan to Ukraine
Jun 20, 2023
Realignment Supercast AMA Teaser | Debating Bidenomics, RFK Jr's Voice, Our Cyberpunk Future, the Role of Tech Billionaires, and History Reading Motivations
Jun 16, 2023
380 | Senator Marco Rubio: How America Can Recover from "Decades of Decadence"
Jun 15, 2023
379 | Jennifer Pahlka: How Government Limped into the Digital Age
Jun 13, 2023
378 | Joshua Zeitz: What President Lincoln's Faith Means for a Secularizing America
Jun 09, 2023
377 | Jonathan D.T. Ward: The 2020s - The Decisive Decade for the U.S. & China
Jun 08, 2023
376 | Ben Terris: The Winners and Losers of DC's Big Break After Trump
Jun 06, 2023
Teaser | Realignment Supercast AMA - Saagar & Marshall on the Debt Ceiling Debate, Biased Analysis, Good Q&A from Audience, GOP Primary, and Lessons for Ukraine from Afghanistan
Jun 02, 2023
375 | Craig Nelson: How America Became the "Arsenal of Democracy" and the Lessons for Today
Jun 01, 2023
374 | Elliot Ackerman: How a Divided America Grapples its Past, Present, and Future
May 26, 2023
373 | Noam Bardin: Building the Future of News & Social in a Post-Twitter World
May 25, 2023
372 | CFPB Director Rohit Chopra: Reviving America's Anti-Monopoly Tradition
May 23, 2023
Supercast Ask Me Anything Teaser | Assessing Biden vs. Trump's America in 2025, Looking Back at 2016-2021, Twitter Influence, Millennials to the Suburbs, and Why Can't the Defense Budget Build Munitions?
May 19, 2023
371 | Evan Thomas: The Atomic Bomb's Legacy in a Disordered World
May 18, 2023
370 | Timothy B. Lee: Why Artificial Intelligence Won't Cause Mass Unemployment
May 16, 2023
369 | Steve Drummond: How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win WWII
May 12, 2023
368 | Thom Shanker: Welcome to the Age of Danger - New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats
May 11, 2023
367 | Ashlee Vance: The Misfits and Geniuses Winning the New Space Race
May 09, 2023
Supercast Ask Me Anything Teaser | Why Rome Matters, Ben Smith Reaction, What Happened to Andrew Yang?, RFK Jr's Presidential Campaign, Tucker 2024?, and the Threat of Nihilism
May 05, 2023
366 | Ben Smith: Genius, Rivalry, Delusion, and the Collapse of BuzzFeed, HuffPost, Vice, and the Digital Media Era
May 04, 2023
365 | Michael Lind: How the Suppression of Wages is Destroying America
May 02, 2023
364 | Rebecca Grant: Why Birth, Motherhood, and Pregnancy Are at the Center of American Politics
Apr 27, 2023
363 | Peter Frankopan: How a Transforming Earth & a Rising Asia Will Define the 21st Century
Apr 25, 2023
Supercast Ask Me Anything Teaser | Saagar's Birthday Edition - BuzzFeed News Shutdown, Pessimism About America, Getting Narratives Right, and More...
Apr 21, 2023
#362 | Steven Simon: The Rise and Fall of America's Grand Delusion in the Middle East
Apr 20, 2023
#361 | Emmet Penney: Roadblocks to a Nuclear Renaissance, the Broken Energy Grid, and the Decarbonization Challenge
Apr 18, 2023
Supercast Ask Me Anything Teaser | Anniversary Best of the AMA Edition - Future Plans, DeSantis vs. Trump, Graduate School, Politician Interviews, Realignment Issues, and More...
Apr 14, 2023
#360 | Renu Mukherjee: The End of Affirmative Action and the Future of Higher Education
Apr 13, 2023
#359 | Jacob Helberg: The Geopolitics of the Great U.S.-China Tech Decoupling
Apr 11, 2023
Supercast Teaser | Realignment Discussion & Ask Me Anything: Saagar and Marshall on Wisconsin & Chicago's Elections, Trump's Court Hearing, Demographic and Geographic Change, and More...
Apr 07, 2023
358 | Henry Olsen: Trump vs. DeSantis and the Fight for the New Republican Party
Apr 06, 2023
Introducing The Realignment Part II - The Lead Up to 2024 and Beyond
Apr 04, 2023
357 | The Revolts That Shook Britain and the Realignment of Western Politics with Matthew Goodwin
Mar 30, 2023
356 | Inside the TikTok Ban/Forced Sale Debate with Adam Kovacevich
Mar 28, 2023
Realignment Discussion & Ask Me Anything: Saagar and Marshall on Why Realignment Ideas Don't Spread, the Iraq War Anniversary, and More...(Supercast Exclusive)
Mar 24, 2023
Iraq War 20th Anniversary | Robert Draper on How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq
Mar 23, 2023
355 | The Global AI Race and the Future of Great Power Competition with Paul Scharre
Mar 21, 2023
354 | Is America a Superpower in Peril? - with David McCormick
Mar 16, 2023
353 | How the Consulting Industry Warped the Economy, Infantilized Government, and Weakened Business with Mariana Mazzucato
Mar 14, 2023
Realignment Discussion & Ask Me Anything: Saagar & Marshall on Why They Interview Politicians, Saagar's Engagement, and More...(Supercast Exclusive)
Mar 10, 2023
352 | How the Media Lost Its Way and Lessons for 2024 with Steve Krakauer
Mar 09, 2023
351 | Cheap Debt, Bailouts, Crashes, and the Fight for Economic Resilience with Liz Hoffman
Mar 07, 2023
350 | Busting the Myth of Market Fundamentalism with Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway
Mar 03, 2023
349 | Vivek Ramaswamy on All Things Public Policy
Mar 02, 2023
348 | Is Taiwan Next?: Part II with Elbridge Colby
Feb 28, 2023
347 | Driving Battlefield Innovation from Afghanistan & Iraq to Ukraine and Beyond with Pete Newell
Feb 24, 2023
346 | The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism with Martin Wolf
Feb 23, 2023
345 | The Realignment Live Part III: Future of Families, Radical Decentralization, & the Paper Belt on Fire
Feb 21, 2023
344 | Inside the Nuclear Energy Renaissance with Bret Kugelmass
Feb 17, 2023
343 | The Realignment x The Good Time Show: ChatGPT and the Rise of AI, Media Critiques, Searching for Crypto's "Facebook Moment," and the Future of Social Media with Aarthi Ramamurthy & Sriram Krishnan
Feb 16, 2023
Realignment Discussion + Ask Me Anything: Saagar & Marshall on the GOP Primary, UFOs, a Senate Retirement, and Take Listener Questions (Supercast Exclusive)
Feb 15, 2023
342 | Trump's Last Defense Secretary on Cutting the Pentagon Budget, Base Closures, Forever War Accountability, and New Threats with Christopher C. Miller
Feb 14, 2023
341 | The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America with Philip Bump
Feb 10, 2023
340 | Is a "Bill of Obligations" the Answer to America's Turmoil? with Richard Haass
Feb 09, 2023
339 | The Realignment x Moment of Zen: Silicon Valley & DC, Trump vs DeSantis, and the future of media & politics
Feb 07, 2023
338 | How to Fix America's "Underpants Gnomes" Problem with Frank DiStefano
Feb 03, 2023
337 | The Realignment Live Part II: Kevin Roberts, John Burtka, Kristen Soltis Anderson, Nate Hochman, Saurabh Sharma, & Chris Griswold
Feb 02, 2023
336 | The Realignment Live Part I: Matt Stoller, Julius Krein, Elbridge Colby, Jane Coaston, Yuval Levin, and Jason Willick
Jan 31, 2023
335 | America's Pacific Power Paradox and the Roots of Asia's Instability with Van Jackson
Jan 27, 2023
334 | Is Main Street Conservatism the Future of the Right? with Helen Andrews & Emile Doak
Jan 25, 2023
333 | Inside the New House China Select Committee with Rep. Mike Gallagher
Jan 24, 2023
332 | How the Congo's Cobalt Fuels Electric Vehicles, Batteries, and Modern-Day Slavery with Siddharth Kara
Jan 20, 2023
331 | One Small Step Towards a Fusion Energy Breakthrough with Charles Seife
Jan 19, 2023
Realignment Q&A Mailbag: Does Davos/the World Economic Forum Matter, the Gilded Age and Today's Politics, Dungeons & Dragons, and Neocon Thoughts? (Supercast Exclusive)
Jan 18, 2023
330 | Does Great Power Equal Responsibility? America and the World from WWI to Ukraine with Robert Kagan
Jan 17, 2023
329 | Saagar & Marshall on Congress, Airline Debacles, & Taiwan + John Lettieri on Non-Competes and American Dynamism
Jan 13, 2023
328 | The Pentagon Isn't Ready for the New World of Disruptive Innovation with Steve Blank
Jan 12, 2023
Realignment Q&A Mailbag | The Return of Serious Politics? Speaker Drama and Realignments, ChatGPT, and more...(Supercast Exclusive)
Jan 11, 2023
327 | Welcome to 2023 - Navigating Political & Market Chaos with Bradley Tusk
Jan 10, 2023
326 | Ian Kershaw: The Personalities Who Built and Destroyed Modern Europe
Dec 14, 2022
325 | Shannon K. O'Neil: The Globalization Myth - Why Regions Matter
Dec 13, 2022
324 | Paul Millerd: Imagining a New Story for Work with the Pathless Path
Dec 12, 2022
323 | James Rickards: How Broken Supply Chains Will Sink the Global Economy
Dec 09, 2022
322 | Jeremi Suri: America's Unfinished War Over Democracy
Dec 08, 2022
321 | Beverly Gage: How the FBI and Its Politics Shaped the American Century
Dec 07, 2022
320 | Trae Stephens: Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy
Dec 06, 2022
319 | Frank Dikötter: Shattering the Myths of China After Mao
Dec 05, 2022
318 | Noah Smith: Vibe Shifting Out of the Long 2010s
Dec 02, 2022
317 | Saagar & Marshall's 2022 Year-in-Review: China Protests & Zero COVID, the End of History Returns, and Is America Politically Exhausted?
Dec 01, 2022
316 | William D. Cohan: The Rise & Unimaginable Fall of General Electric, America's Iconic Corporation
Nov 29, 2022
315 | David Sax: The Over-Hyped Digital World and Why Our Future Is Analog
Nov 22, 2022
314 | Saagar & Marshall: Unpacking Trump's 2024 Announcement + the 2022 Midterm Results
Nov 18, 2022
313 | William Inboden: How Ronald Reagan Won the First Cold War
Nov 17, 2022
312 | Christopher Marquis: How China's Communist Roots Shape Its Economy, State Party, and Xi Jinping's Ambitions
Nov 15, 2022
311 | Lars Doucet on Georgism: Land and Why Rent is too High & Wages too Low
Nov 11, 2022
310 | The Realignment x Breaking Points Election Analysis & Coverage
Nov 10, 2022
309 | Michael Gibson: Setting the Higher Ed Paper Belt on Fire
Nov 08, 2022
308 | Johnathan Bi: René Girard, Mimetic Theory, and Confronting the Apocalypse
Nov 04, 2022
307 | Saagar & Marshall: Elon Musk's Twitter Buy & the Death of Social Media + Pre-Midterm Predictions
Nov 03, 2022
306 | Lyle Jeremy Rubin: A Marine Questions American Power, Capitalism, & the Future of the Left
Nov 01, 2022
305 | Nick Santhanam: The Return of Manufacturing and a Better, Faster, Stronger America
Oct 27, 2022
304 | Shadi Hamid: The Problem of Democracy
Oct 25, 2022
303 | Jai Malik & Lucas Bagno: Disrupting America's Industrial Base
Oct 21, 2022
302 | Timothy Shenk: The Struggle to Realign American Politics from Alexander Hamilton to Obama and Trump
Oct 20, 2022
301 | Rana Foroohar: The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World
Oct 18, 2022
300 | Thomas E. Ricks: How the Civil Rights Movement Waged a "Good War"
Oct 14, 2022
299 | Reza Aslan: How Should Americans React to Iran's Revolution(s)?
Oct 13, 2022
298 | Josh Steinman: Inside Trump's NSC & Rebuilding America's Industrial Base
Oct 11, 2022
297 | Saagar & Marshall: Marc Andreessen's Book List, Semiconductors, Responding to Putin's Speech, and More...
Oct 07, 2022
296 | Richard Reeves: Why Modern Boys and Men Are Struggling and What to Do About It
Oct 06, 2022
295 | Chris Miller: The Chip War and the Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Oct 04, 2022
294 | Steve Case: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places Are Building the New American Dream
Sep 30, 2022
293 | Saagar & Marshall: Nord Stream Leak Origins + How Should We Deter Nuclear Conflict?
Sep 29, 2022
292 | Scott Galloway: America Adrift - The Story of the U.S. Through 100 Charts
Sep 27, 2022
291 | Geoffrey Cain: Should TikTok Be Banned or Independently Spun-Out?
Sep 22, 2022
Teaser | Marshall & Saagar Supercast Subscriber Q&A: Personal Bias, American Dynamism, Ukraine's Offensive, Book Recs, and More...
Sep 21, 2022
290 | David Phillips: The War for the Soul of the Navy Seals, Recruitment Shortfalls, and the Military's Afghanistan/Iraq Hangover
Sep 20, 2022
289 | Jonathan Darman: How FDR, Lyndon Johnson, and Ronald Reagan Realigned America
Sep 16, 2022
288 | Michael Tomasky: Why Progressive, Middle-Out Economics Will Succeed Neoliberalism
Sep 15, 2022
287 | Jack Detsch: Will Ukraine's Counteroffensive Change the Course of the War?
Sep 13, 2022
286 | Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to Global Domination - Mark Bergen on How YouTube Got to Billions of Daily Views
Sep 09, 2022
285 | Saagar & Marshall: Was the U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan Botched? + 9/11 Anniversary Reflection
Sep 08, 2022
284 | The Realignment x The Pull Request: Antonio García Martinez on What's Broken, How to Fix It, or Do We Just Move to Balaji's Network State?
Sep 06, 2022
283 | California at the Epicenter of America's New Energy Crisis - Katherine Blunt on the Fall of PG&E, the Grid, and New Energy Sources
Sep 02, 2022
282 | The Realignment X Narratives Podcast: How Do We Make it to the 2030s?
Sep 01, 2022
281 | Why Are Latino Voters Moving Towards Trump? - Geraldo Cadava on the GOP's Relationship with Hispanic Voters
Aug 30, 2022
280 | Saagar & Marshall on Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Plans + Beth Macy on the Next Stage of the Opioid Crisis
Aug 26, 2022
279 | Sprinting Towards Conflict with a Peaking China - Michael Beckley on the Dangers of the Next Decade
Aug 25, 2022
278 | Why Were Schools Closed So Long During COVID? - Anya Kamenetz on What COVID Did to Children
Aug 23, 2022
277 | Does America’s Most Important Asian Ally Want to Fight? - Tobias Harris on a pacifist Japan in the 21st century
Aug 19, 2022
276 | Saagar & Marshall: What Are Realignments? Liz Cheney's Defeat + Trump's Centrality, and U.S.-Taiwan Policy After Pelosi's Visit
Aug 18, 2022
275 | Jason Willick: Mar-a-Lago and Justice in a Divided America
Aug 16, 2022
274 | Franek Sokolowski & Wiktor Babinski: How Sanctions Are Crippling Russia
Aug 12, 2022
Teaser | Listener Q&A: Vibes vs. Policy, Responding to Binary Moments, Marshall's Dad + Alex Epstein, Peter Zeihan's Worldview, How to Ask Good Questions, and More....
Aug 11, 2022
273 | Elliot Ackerman: Reckoning with America's End in Afghanistan
Aug 09, 2022
272 | Frank DiStefano: Why Democrats & Republicans Haven't Realigned (Yet)
Aug 05, 2022
271 | Special: Dr. Mark Trexler (AKA Marshall's Dad) Responds to Alex Epstein on Climate Change and Energy Policy
Aug 04, 2022
270 | Season Premiere: Saagar & Marshall Discuss Andrew Yang's Forward, Pelosi in Taiwan, and More
Aug 02, 2022
269 | Season Finale: Eve Fairbanks on What South Africa's Reckoning Means for the U.S.
Jul 22, 2022
268 | Saagar & Marshall on Realignments + Mark Leibovich on Trump's DC
Jul 21, 2022
Listener Q&A: Collapsing Institutions and Medicore Elites. How to Get Into Suits. What Are the Best Books on the Path to WW1? Do Blue State Migrants Bring Their Problems to Red States? And More....
Jul 20, 2022
267 | Matthew Ball: How the Metaverse Could Revolutionize Everything
Jul 19, 2022
Note for Listeners About Today and Tomorrow's Episodes, Season Finale, and Subscribe to the Show!
Jul 14, 2022
266 | Nick Seabrook: Gerrymandering, Responsive Politics, and the Threat to Democracy
Jul 12, 2022
265 | Peter Leyden: Is California the Future of American Politics?
Jul 08, 2022
264 | Balaji Srinivasan: How and Why to Start New Countries
Jul 07, 2022
Teaser | Biweekly Supercast Listener Q&A: Voting for the Lesser of Two Evils, Saagar's Graduate School Advice, Peter Zeihan and the Blob, and More...
Jul 06, 2022
263 | Steven McGregor: Will the U.S. Win the Next Battle of Midway?
Jul 05, 2022
262 | Saagar & Marshall: Marc Andreessen Reflections, Roe v. Wade Overturn and Where We Go Next + the Case for Suits and Ties
Jul 01, 2022
261 | Katherine Boyle: Getting Serious About American Dynamism
Jun 30, 2022
260 | Marc Andreessen on Everything: The Need to Build, Web3's Value, Political Realignments, Collapsing Trust, U.S. History, and More...
Jun 28, 2022
Unlocked | Saagar & Marshall's First Subscriber Q&A Discussion
Jun 24, 2022
259 | Chris Fenton: Top Gun: Maverick & the Future of Hollywood in China
Jun 23, 2022
Teaser | Subscriber AMA: Our Favorite Elections, Government Gas Cards, Media Echo-Chambers, and More...
Jun 22, 2022
258 | Michelle Wilde Anderson: How Recessions & Politics Dismantle Local Governments
Jun 21, 2022
257 | Saagar & Marshall: Unpacking Peter Zeihan, Senate Gun Legislation, and Will Biden Run Again in 2024?
Jun 17, 2022
256 | Andrew Rice: How the Year 2000 Broke America
Jun 16, 2022
Teaser | Monthly Supercast Q&A: Trump vs. Desantis, What's the Next Realignment, Celebs in Politics, and More...
Jun 15, 2022
255 | Peter Zeihan: The End of the World Is Just the Beginning
Jun 14, 2022
Teaser | What Trump's Foreign Policy Legacy Means for 2024
Jun 13, 2022
254 | Saagar & Marshall: Jan. 6 Committee, SF DA Recall, and Celebs in Politics
Jun 10, 2022
253 | Realignment Double-Header: Is a U.S. Conflict with China Inevitable?
Jun 09, 2022
252 | Ian Bremmer: Pandemics, Climate Change, and Disruption. Do Crises Equal Opportunity?
Jun 07, 2022
251 | Alex Epstein: The Case for Fossil Fuels
Jun 03, 2022
250 | David Gelles: Undoing the Legacy of the Man Who Broke Capitalism
Jun 02, 2022
249 | Saagar & Marshall: America's Gun Debate + Should the U.S. Fight for Taiwan?
May 31, 2022
248 | Yoram Hazony: Realigning Conservatism
May 27, 2022
247 | Ira Shapiro: Is the U.S. Senate Broken?
May 26, 2022
246 | Zach Graumann: What Are the New Rules of Politics?
May 24, 2022
245 | Phil Klay: Citizenship in an Age of Endless & Invisible Wars
May 20, 2022
244 | Michael Kazin: The Future of the Left in a Realigning America
May 19, 2022
243 | Saagar & Marshall: Baby Formula Shortage, Stocks/Crypto, Debating $40 Billion to Ukraine, and More...
May 17, 2022
242 | Christopher Blattman: Why Studying the Roots of War Shows the Paths to Peace
May 13, 2022
241 | Francis Fukuyama: How the Left and Right Challenge Classical Liberalism
May 12, 2022
240 | Saagar and Marshall Discuss the Supreme Court and Russia's Victory Day Parade
May 10, 2022
239 | Josh Mitchell: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe
May 06, 2022
238 | Gen. Robert Spalding: Can China's "Unrestricted Warfare" Beat the U.S.?
May 05, 2022
237 | Matthew Continetti: What's the Future of the Right in a Realigning America??
May 03, 2022
236 | Saagar and Marshall Discuss Musk & Twitter, How Saagar Became Part of the Story, and Biden's Student Debt Forgiveness Decision
Apr 29, 2022
235 | Mike Solana Returns: A Heretical View of Silicon Valley
Apr 21, 2022
234 | Yascha Mounk: Can Diverse and Divided Democracies Survive?
Apr 19, 2022
233 | Saagar and Marshall Debate Finland and Sweden in NATO, Elon Musk & Twitter, Ukraine, and More
Apr 15, 2022
232 | Sohrab Ahmari: A Radical Challenge to the American Overclass
Apr 14, 2022
231 | David Sacks: The Case for Realism & Non-Interventionism
Apr 12, 2022
We're launching the next phase of The Realignment. Get in early.
Apr 11, 2022
230 | Ukraine Series Finale: Fredrik Logevall: Lessons from Pre-WWII JFK for Today
Apr 07, 2022
ANNOUNCEMENT: "I'm pretty tired. I think I'll go home now."
Apr 06, 2022
229 | Rupert Russell: Commodity Markets and the Making of Our Chaotic World
Apr 05, 2022
228 | Seth G. Jones: Irregular Warfare and the Future of Global Competition After Ukraine
Apr 04, 2022
227 | Aparna Pande: India's Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World
Apr 01, 2022
226 | Saagar's Triumphant Return: Marshall & Saagar Discuss Ukraine and More
Mar 31, 2022
225 | Jon Wolfsthal: How Do We Handle Nuclear Weapons After Ukraine?
Mar 30, 2022
224 | Dr. Jennifer Sciubba: How the Population Boom & Bust Is Reshaping the World
Mar 29, 2022
223 | Sean McFate: The New Rules of War for the Age of Durable Disorder
Mar 28, 2022
222 | William Drozdiak: Emmanuel Macron and a Fractured Europe Confront Putin's Russia
Mar 25, 2022
221 | Mark Valentine: Can Artificial Intelligence Disrupt the Battlefield?
Mar 24, 2022
220 | Robert Farley: Air Wars in Ukraine and Beyond
Mar 23, 2022
219 | Amy B. Zegart: Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The Future of U.S. Intelligence After Ukraine
Mar 22, 2022
218 | Elbridge Colby: Is Taiwan Next?
Mar 21, 2022
217 | Ian Buruma: How the Ghosts of Churchill and Appeasement at Munich Haunt Ukraine
Mar 18, 2022
216 | Ian Morris: How Russia's Grand Strategy Drives the War in Ukraine
Mar 17, 2022
215 | John Nagl: Russia's Insurgency Problem
Mar 16, 2022
214 | Christian Brose: Can the U.S. Military Compete with Russia and China?
Mar 15, 2022
213 | Ben Bowman: Unpacking Ukraine + Calling Out The Realignment's Cynicism
Mar 14, 2022
212 | Neil Lanctot: How the Legacy of World War I Shapes Our Response to Ukraine
Mar 11, 2022
211 | Marshall and Saagar Unpack Ukraine: Peace Deals, Oil Sanctions, Russophobia, and Settling In for the Long-Haul
Mar 10, 2022
210 | Hal Brands: What Can the Cold War Teach Us About Modern Conflict with Russia and China?
Mar 09, 2022
209 | Demetri Kofinas: What’s Next in Ukraine Part II
Mar 08, 2022
208 | Alec Ross: What Happens When Companies Get Involved in Geopolitics?
Mar 07, 2022
207 | David Kilcullen: Insurgencies, Resistance, and Russian Strategy and Tactics
Mar 04, 2022
206 | Ukraine Emergency Podcast #2: Marshall and Saagar Unpack the Ukraine Crisis
Mar 03, 2022
205 | Nate Sibley: Russia's Rulers Aren't Who You Think and What Sanctions Can (and Can't) Do
Mar 02, 2022
204 | Jimmy Soni: PayPal and the Origins of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, and David Sacks
Mar 01, 2022
ANNOUNCEMENT: Daily Ukraine Coverage Starts 3/2 + Request for Qs for Upcoming Reaction Show
Feb 28, 2022
Emergency Podcast: Marshall and Saagar Unpack the Ukraine Crisis
Feb 25, 2022
203 | Lisa Miller and Andrea González-Ramírez: What AOC Means for the Future of American Politics
Feb 24, 2022
202 | Jeremy W. Peters: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got What They Wanted
Feb 22, 2022
201 | Demetri Kofinas: What’s Next in Ukraine?
Feb 17, 2022
200 | Kara Frederick: The Right vs. Big Tech, Debating Misinformation, & Nuanced Takes in Un-Nuanced Times
Feb 15, 2022
199 | Peter S. Goodman: How Billionaires Devoured the World
Feb 10, 2022
198 | Erich Schwartzel: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy
Feb 08, 2022
197 | Joseph Weisberg: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War with Russia
Feb 03, 2022
196 | Sebastian Mallaby: How Venture Capital and the Power Law Shape the Future
Feb 01, 2022
195 | Frank DiStefano: How to Realign American Politics
Jan 27, 2022
194 | Extended Q&A + Geoff Cain on Xinjiang’s Police State
Jan 25, 2022
193 | Realignment x The Deep End: Saagar Enjeti on Building Breaking Points
Jan 20, 2022
192 | Jonathan M. Katz: Reckoning with American Empire + Debating “War Is a Racket”
Jan 18, 2022
191 | Glenn Hubbard: Walls vs. Bridges in a Disrupted America
Jan 13, 2022
190 | Christopher Leonard: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy
Jan 11, 2022
189 | Stephen Marche: Is the U.S. on the Path to Dissolution?
Jan 06, 2022
188 | Roy Bahat: How Can We Build a Win-Win Society?
Dec 30, 2021
187 | Greg Lukianoff: The Second Great Age of Political Correctness
Dec 28, 2021
186 | Anne Helen Petersen and Charlie Warzel: The Problem and Promise of WFH
Dec 21, 2021
185 | Mark Yzaguirre: Realignment or Not, Normies Get Votes
Dec 16, 2021
184 | Steve LeVine: The U.S. and China’s Great EV Battery War and the Next Supply Chain Crunch
Dec 14, 2021
183 | Matt Ridley: Lessons from Investigating the Origins of COVID-19
Dec 09, 2021
182 | Alex Kantrowitz: Twitter’s New Leadership, Moving on from the Facebook Whistleblower, and Questions About the Internet’s Future
Dec 07, 2021
181 | Kyle Strickland: 20th Century Racial Liberalism’s Reached a Dead End. What’s Next?
Dec 02, 2021
180 | The Realignment Conference Part II: Centralization vs. Decentralization and the Future of Populism
Nov 30, 2021
179 | Thanksgiving Special: Jeremy Dauber on the History of Comics, Debates Over Diversity/Representation, and the State of Comedy
Nov 25, 2021
178 | John McWhorter on Race in America: Third Wave Anti-Racism, Lessons from BLM and Summer 2020, and the Case Against “Woke” Racism
Nov 23, 2021
177 | Tim Marshall: How the Power of Geography Shapes 21st Century Flashpoints
Nov 18, 2021
176 | ConstitutionDAO’s Julian Weisser and Will Papper: We’re Trying to Buy the Constitution
Nov 16, 2021
175 | Michael Shellenberger: How Progressives Failed America’s Cities
Nov 11, 2021
174 | Derek Robertson: What’s Next for America’s New Culture Wars
Nov 09, 2021
173 | Kyla Scanlon on Everything: The Metaverse, Inflation, Web3, Supply Chains, and more
Nov 04, 2021
172 | The Realignment Conference: Antonio García Martínez, Jacob Helberg, and Mike Solana: Technology x Politics, U.S.-China, and Local Politics
Nov 02, 2021
171 | Ross Douthat: The Limits of Modern Medicine in a Post-COVID World
Oct 28, 2021
170 | Christopher Mims: Inside the Supply Chain Crisis
Oct 26, 2021
169 | Johns Hopkins University President Ronald Daniels: What Universities Owe Democracy
Oct 21, 2021
168 | Parag Khanna: How Migration and Asia Will Define the 21st Century
Oct 19, 2021
167 | Evan Osnos: The Making of America’s Fury and China’s Ambition
Oct 14, 2021
166 | Jacob Helberg: What a Tech “Gray War” Means for Taiwan, the U.S.-China Relations, and Geopolitics
Oct 12, 2021
165 | Bradley Tusk: How Mobile Voting Could Save Democracy
Oct 07, 2021
164 | Andrew Yang: The Case for a New Party, Open Primaries, and Ranked Choice Voting
Oct 05, 2021
163 | Eliana Johnson and Chris Stirewalt: The Real Lessons from the 2016 and 2020 Elections
Sep 30, 2021
162 | Max Chafkin: What the Rise of the Silicon Valley Right Means for America
Sep 28, 2021
161 | Alec Ross: Welcome to the Raging 2020s
Sep 23, 2021
160 | Peter Bergen: What the Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden Means for the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy
Sep 21, 2021
159 | Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying: How the 21st Century Drove Us All Crazy
Sep 16, 2021
158 | Elbridge Colby: Welcome to the Era of Great Power Conflict
Sep 14, 2021
157 | Adam Tooze: How Covid Reshaped Capitalism, the Cold War, and Politics
Sep 09, 2021
156 | Ben Mezrich: How the GameStop Short Squeeze Brought Wall Street to Its Knees
Sep 07, 2021
155 | Mehran Sahami and Jeremy M. Weinstein: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How to Fix It
Sep 02, 2021
154 | Jeffrey Selingo: COVID Was Supposed to Change College. Why Didn’t It?
Aug 31, 2021
153 | Amy Chua: How Tribalism Set the World on Fire After 9/11
Aug 26, 2021
152 | Final Extended Realignment Q&A…For Now
Aug 24, 2021
151 | Ret. General Dan Bolger: Why We Lost in Afghanistan and Iraq
Aug 19, 2021
A Quick Note for the Season Finale (Back on 8/19)
Aug 17, 2021
150 | Theodore R. Johnson: How National Solidarity Can Defeat Racial Division
Aug 12, 2021
149 | Spencer Ackerman: How the War on Terror Broke America
Aug 10, 2021
148 | Kinsey Grant and Josh Kaplan: What’s the Future of Media Look Like?
Aug 05, 2021
147 | Vivek Ramaswamy: Does Politics Have a Place in Corporate America?
Aug 03, 2021
146 | Amanda Litman and Pete Davis: If All Politics is National, What Happens Back Home?
Jul 29, 2021
145 | Robert Draper: How and Why America Went to War in Iraq
Jul 27, 2021
144 | Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang: The Ugly Truth About Facebook
Jul 22, 2021
143 | Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell: How Wall Street and Venture Capital Fueled the Great Startup Delusion
Jul 20, 2021
142 | Jeff Shesol: What the Billionaire Space Race Means for Cold War II
Jul 15, 2021
141 | Bruno Maçães: Geopolitics for the End Time
Jul 13, 2021
140 | Antonio García Martínez: America’s Thirty Years’ War
Jul 08, 2021
139 | George Packer: How America Fractured and the Way Forward
Jul 06, 2021
138 | Katherine Boyle: What’s America’s Problem?
Jul 01, 2021
137 | Dr. Julian Zelizer: We Burnt the House Down. Now What?
Jun 29, 2021
136 | Josh Rogin: An Honest Conversation About the Wuhan Lab Leak Theory
Jun 24, 2021
135 | Alex Kantrowtiz: Can Tech Survive Washington’s Onslaught?
Jun 22, 2021
134 | Dr. Eric Weinstein: What Happens Now?
Jun 17, 2021
133 | Conor Dougherty: The Housing Crisis vs. the American Dream
Jun 15, 2021
132 | Charlotte Alter: Are Millennial Politicians the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For?
Jun 10, 2021
131 | Katherine Gehl: Breaking the Duopoly with Political Innovation
Jun 08, 2021
130 | Frank DiStefano: Welcome Back to The Realignment
Jun 03, 2021
129 | Krystal Ball and Saagar Are Leaving Rising. Here’s What’s Next
Jun 01, 2021
128 | Edward-Isaac Dovere: How Joe Biden Proved Everyone Wrong
May 27, 2021
BONUS | Marshall's New Podcast, The Deep End: Erik Torenberg on the Future of Higher Education
May 26, 2021
127 | Zachary Karabell: Welcome to the Anti-American Century
May 25, 2021
126 | Brad Stone: What Does an Unbound Amazon Mean for America?
May 20, 2021
125 | Emergency Book Recommendation Episode
May 18, 2021
124 | Niall Ferguson: The Politics and History of Catastrophe
May 13, 2021
123 | Senator Josh Hawley Part II
May 11, 2021
Vacation Special: Team Realignment’s Favorite Episodes, Books, and Podcasts
May 06, 2021
122 | Cade Metz: How Google, Facebook, Elon Musk’s OpenAI, and the U.S. and Chinese Governments Will Shape AI’s Future
May 04, 2021
121 | Julia Galef: The Path to Thinking Better with the Scout Mindset
Apr 29, 2021
120 | Extended Q&A: Yes, We Noticed Hooters Stole Our Theme Song + How You Can Support The Realignment
Apr 27, 2021
119 | Zachary Carter: How to Reimagine Capitalism
Apr 22, 2021
118 | Dr. Kevin Sabet: 4/20 Special: America’s Decriminalizing Drugs, What’s Next?
Apr 20, 2021
117 | Elliot Ackerman, Part II: What Would a War with China Look Like?
Apr 15, 2021
116 | Lisa Napoli: Understanding Media’s Past to Build Its Future
Apr 13, 2021
115 | Frank DiStefano: The Next Realignment and Why America’s Parties Are Crumbling + Extended Q&A
Apr 08, 2021
114 | Glenn Greenwald: Securing Democracy and the Lessons from Bolsonaro’s Brazil
Apr 06, 2021
113 | Jonathan Cohn: Why the Ten Year War Over Obamacare Explains Everything About American Politics
Apr 01, 2021
112 | Josh Rogin: Inside Trump, Xi, and Biden’s Battle for the 21st Century
Mar 30, 2021
111 | Admiral James Stavridis: What Could a World War with China Look Like?
Mar 25, 2021
110 | Alec MacGillis: Winning and Losing in Amazon’s “One-Click” America
Mar 23, 2021
109 | Alex Kantrowitz: Are We About to Enter the Roaring 20’s? + Join The Realignment & Big Technology Podcast on Clubhouse on 3/18
Mar 18, 2021
108 | Ross Douthat: America Before and After the Pandemic
Mar 16, 2021
107 | Michael Brendan Dougherty: Populism’s Just Getting Started
Mar 11, 2021
106 | Kevin Roose, Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
Mar 09, 2021
105 | Mike Solana: What’s the Matter with San Francisco?
Mar 04, 2021
104 | Cal Newport: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communications Overload
Mar 02, 2021
103 | Michael Doran: Biden’s Foreign Policy and the Future of Populism
Feb 25, 2021
102 | Weston Wamp: Is Washington Rigged?
Feb 23, 2021
101 | Ben Fritz: The Fight for the Future of Movies During and After COVID
Feb 18, 2021
100 | David Sacks: Recalling Gavin Newsom, U.S.-China Relations, and How to Protect Speech Online
Feb 16, 2021
Ep. 99: Mara Hvistendahl, The Scientist and the Spy: China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage
Feb 11, 2021
Ep. 98: Balaji Srinivasan, the Coming Decentralization of Everything
Feb 09, 2021
Ep. 97 Q&A: Marijuana Legalization, the New Leadership Class, Filibuster 101, & the Origin of The Realignment Theme Song
Feb 04, 2021
Ep. 96: Derek Thompson, Robinhood Populism, Coastal Cities in Trouble, & Governing a Fractured America
Feb 02, 2021
Ep. 95: EMERGENCY POD: Saagar Enjeti, Marshall Kosloff, And Big Technology’s Alex Kantrowitz Break Down Robinhood, Gamestop, WallstreetBets
Jan 29, 2021
Ep. 94: Steven Teles, America’s Factional Future, Elites in Revolt, and What’s Next for NeverTrump
Jan 28, 2021
Ep. 93: Lee Drutman, Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop
Jan 26, 2021
Ep. 92: Michael Lind, The Failure of Populism and the Class War After Trump + Extended Q&A
Jan 21, 2021
Ep. 91: Swati Mylavarapu and Matt Rogers, Reckoning with Silicon Valley’s Power
Jan 19, 2021
Ep. 90: Erik Torenberg on Realignments in Tech, Media, and Education
Jan 14, 2021
Ep. 89: Eric Weinstein, Reckoning with Capitol Chaos and How to Save America
Jan 12, 2021
Ep. 88: Helen Andrews, How Boomers Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster
Jan 07, 2021
Ep. 87: Joe Weisenthal Returns! Stimulus Checks, Stocks, Bitcoin’s Surge, and 2020 Finance Recap
Jan 05, 2021
BONUS | Ep. 86: A Realignment Podcast About Podcasting with Sachit Gupta
Jan 04, 2021
Ep. 85: Reboot | Jennifer Harris Wants to Replace Neoliberalism
Dec 18, 2020
Ep 84 Season Finale: Richard Hanania on the Working-Class Realignment Myth
Dec 17, 2020
Ep. 83: Alex Kantrowitz on Breaking Up Big Tech, Stock Market Bubbles, and Which Companies Will Win Post-COVID
Dec 15, 2020
Ep. 82: Avik Roy Makes the Case for a Centrist Realignment
Dec 10, 2020
Ep 81: Joe Scarborough on Saving Freedom After WWII and Grappling with the Realignment
Dec 08, 2020
Ep. 80: Lisa Napoli on CNN, Ted Turner, and the Future of Cable News
Dec 03, 2020
Ep. 79 Q&A: Culture Wars, COVID Lockdown Pushback, Urban vs. Rural America + Subscribe to the Substack!
Dec 01, 2020
Ep. 78: Andrew Sullivan, the Best and Worst Case Joe Biden Scenarios
Nov 26, 2020
Ep. 77: Scott Galloway, Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity
Nov 24, 2020
Ep. 76: Matt Stoller on Power, Tech, and How to Solve Wealth Gaps
Nov 19, 2020
Ep. 75: Anna Khachiyan Stares Into the Abyss
Nov 17, 2020
Ep. 74: Jane Coaston Returns to Mythbust the 2020 Election
Nov 12, 2020
Ep. 73: Ross Douthat, Lessons for the Right and Left After 2020
Nov 10, 2020
Ep. 72: Julius Krein, What’s Next for the Realignment?
Nov 05, 2020
Ep 71: Election Realignment Q&A Special
Nov 03, 2020
Ep. 70: Dr. Eric Weinstein, The Real Stakes of 2020
Nov 02, 2020
Ep. 69: Reboot 2020 | Reeves Wiedeman, What Adam Neumann’s Rise and Fall Means for the Future of Tech
Oct 30, 2020
Ep. 68: Chris Buskirk’s Contrarian Case That Trump Will Win
Oct 29, 2020
Ep. 67: Chris Arnade, In Defense of Non-Voters
Oct 27, 2020
Ep 66: Reboot 2020 | Jarrod Dicker on the Future of Media, Record Labels, and the Rise of Renaissance Creators
Oct 23, 2020
Ep. 65: Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds
Oct 22, 2020
Ep 64: Zephyr Teachout, The Public and Private Threats to Freedom
Oct 20, 2020
Ep. 63: Joe Weisenthal, Is the Economy Totally Screwed?
Oct 15, 2020
Ep. 62: Keith Rabois, In Defense of Big Tech
Oct 13, 2020
Ep. 61: Jane Coaston, Was Trumpism Even Real?
Oct 08, 2020
Ep. 60: Andrew Schulz, Creators Don't Need Corporations Anymore
Oct 06, 2020
Ep. 59: Bruno Macaes, History Has Begun
Oct 01, 2020
Ep. 58 Q&A: Is Gen Z Up for Grabs?
Sep 29, 2020
Ep. 57: Rachel Bovard, The Conservative Civil War Over the Supreme Court and Big Tech
Sep 24, 2020
Ep. 56: Dr. Bret Weinstein, The Best Case Against the Two-Party System
Sep 22, 2020
Ep. 55: Krystal Ball, Can America Survive the 2020 Election?
Sep 17, 2020
Ep. 54: Matt Yglesias, The Case for 1 Billion Americans
Sep 15, 2020
Ep. 53: Oren Cass, The Conservative Case for Unions and the Battle for the Soul of the Republican Party
Sep 10, 2020
Ep. 52 Q&A: What is Populism and Where Should the Politically Homeless Go?
Sep 08, 2020
Ep. 51: Zaid Jilani, the Left Case Against Defunding the Police
Sep 03, 2020
Ep. 50: The Realignment x Andrew Yang Crossover
Sep 01, 2020
Ep. 49: Jacob Helberg Makes the Case for Joe Biden on China
Aug 27, 2020
Ep. 48: Marshall, Saagar, and Emily Jashinsky Debate the Future Of Social Conservatism and the GOP
Aug 25, 2020
Ep. 47: Zach Carter, The Future of Left and Right Wing Populism
Aug 18, 2020
Ep. 46 Q&A: How Can Republicans Ever Win the Popular Vote Again?
Aug 13, 2020
Ep. 45: Nathan Baschez, How Independent Media Can Take on the World
Aug 11, 2020
Ep. 44: Joe Lonsdale, Free Speech is Under Attack
Aug 06, 2020
Ep. 43: Balaji Srinivasan and Decentralized Media
Aug 04, 2020
Ep. 42 RELAUNCH: Senator Marco Rubio, the Republican Who Governed
Jul 29, 2020
Ep. 41 Season Finale: FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, Big Tech, China, and the Future of the Right
Jul 23, 2020
Ep. 40: Thomas Duesterberg Makes the Case Against Industrial Policy
Jul 16, 2020
Ep. 39: Michael Shellenberger's Alternatives to the Green New Deal
Jul 08, 2020
Ep. 38: Nick Timothy, the UK's Political Realignment
Jul 02, 2020
Ep. 37 Re-Up: Bhaskar Sunkara, Debating the Socialist Manifesto
Jun 19, 2020
Ep. 36 Re-Up: Josh Hawley, Realignment Senator
Jun 12, 2020
Ep. 35: John Lee, Decoupling from China After COVID-19
Jun 01, 2020
Ep. 34: Heather Long, The COVID-19 Economy Part II
May 22, 2020
Ep. 33: Matt Stoller, the COVID-19 Economy
Apr 28, 2020
Ep. 32: The COVID-19 Security Challenge
Apr 15, 2020
Ep. 31: Matthew Continetti, Conservatism After the Coronavirus
Apr 01, 2020
Ep. 30: The Geopolitics of the Coronavirus
Mar 26, 2020
Ep. 29: Tim Morrison, The Coronavirus and China's Grip on America's Supply Chain
Mar 17, 2020
Ep. 28: Ross Douthat, The Decadent Society
Mar 10, 2020
Ep. 27: Jane Coaston, Covering the Right's Realignment
Mar 03, 2020
Ep. 26: Senator Tom Cotton
Feb 25, 2020
Ep. 25: Oren Cass Introducing American Compass
Feb 18, 2020
Ep. 24: Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti, The Populist Guide to 2020
Feb 11, 2020
Ep. 23: Christopher Caldwell, The Age of Entitlement
Feb 05, 2020
Ep. 22: Klon Kitchen, the Right’s Big Tech Debate
Jan 28, 2020
Ep. 21: Live Show with Michael Lind and J.D. Vance
Jan 22, 2020
Ep. 20: The Afghanistan Papers, with Douglas Feith and John Walters
Dec 31, 2019
Ep. 19: Representative Mike Gallagher
Dec 17, 2019
Ep. 18: Chris Arnade, Back vs. Front-Row America
Dec 10, 2019
Ep. 17: A Very Realignment Thanksgiving
Nov 28, 2019
Ep. 16: Gen. Robert Spalding, China’s Stealth War
Nov 19, 2019
Ep. 15: Debating the Post-Syria Middle East
Nov 12, 2019
Ep. 14: Dr. Peter Navarro
Nov 06, 2019
Ep. 13: Josh Hawley, Realignment Senator
Oct 29, 2019
Ep. 12: A Conversation with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
Oct 22, 2019
SNEAK PEEK: A Conversation with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
Oct 21, 2019
Ep. 11: Mike Isaac, The Plight of Uber and WeWork
Oct 15, 2019
Ep. 10: Rebeccah Heinrichs, Trump’s Foreign Policy Explained
Oct 09, 2019
Ep. 9: Rachel Bovard, The Conservative Case for Regulating Big Tech
Oct 02, 2019
Ep. 8: Bhaskar Sunkara, Debating the Socialist Manifesto
Sep 24, 2019
Ep. 7: Eliana Johnson, Reporting the Realignment
Sep 17, 2019
Ep. 6: Michael Doran on the Failures of the Foreign Policy Elite
Sep 10, 2019
Ep. 5: Megan McArdle Defends the Market
Sep 04, 2019
Ep. 4: John Walters, Drug Czar
Aug 27, 2019
Ep. 3: Silicon Valley vs. D.C.
Aug 20, 2019
Ep. 2: George Will
Aug 13, 2019
Ep. 1: J.D. Vance
Aug 05, 2019
Welcome to The Realignment
Jul 29, 2019