The Realignment

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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.

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251 | Alex Epstein: The Case for Fossil Fuels 03.06.2022 58:05

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250 | David Gelles: Undoing the Legacy of the Man Who Broke Capitalism 02.06.2022 51:39

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249 | Saagar & Marshall: America's Gun Debate + Should the U.S. Fight for Taiwan? 31.05.2022 1:13:09

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248 | Yoram Hazony: Realigning Conservatism 27.05.2022 1:03:10

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247 | Ira Shapiro: Is the U.S. Senate Broken? 26.05.2022 1:00:47

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246 | Zach Graumann: What Are the New Rules of Politics? 24.05.2022 57:22

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245 | Phil Klay: Citizenship in an Age of Endless & Invisible Wars 20.05.2022 55:02

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244 | Michael Kazin: The Future of the Left in a Realigning America 19.05.2022 58:54

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243 | Saagar & Marshall: Baby Formula Shortage, Stocks/Crypto, Debating $40 Billion to Ukraine, and More... 17.05.2022 1:12:18

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242 | Christopher Blattman: Why Studying the Roots of War Shows the Paths to Peace 13.05.2022 55:35

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241 | Francis Fukuyama: How the Left and Right Challenge Classical Liberalism 12.05.2022 58:26

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240 | Saagar and Marshall Discuss the Supreme Court and Russia's Victory Day Parade 10.05.2022 1:06:33

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239 | Josh Mitchell: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe 06.05.2022 55:06

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238 | Gen. Robert Spalding: Can China's "Unrestricted Warfare" Beat the U.S.? 05.05.2022 1:01:12

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237 | Matthew Continetti: What's the Future of the Right in a Realigning America?? 03.05.2022 1:00:41

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236 | Saagar and Marshall Discuss Musk & Twitter, How Saagar Became Part of the Story, and Biden's Student Debt Forgiveness Decision 29.04.2022 53:13

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235 | Mike Solana Returns: A Heretical View of Silicon Valley 21.04.2022 1:01:02

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234 | Yascha Mounk: Can Diverse and Divided Democracies Survive? 19.04.2022 56:05

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233 | Saagar and Marshall Debate Finland and Sweden in NATO, Elon Musk & Twitter, Ukraine, and More 15.04.2022 53:11

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232 | Sohrab Ahmari: A Radical Challenge to the American Overclass 14.04.2022 57:49

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231 | David Sacks: The Case for Realism & Non-Interventionism 12.04.2022 51:10

IMPORTANT: The Realignment's launched a Supercast subscription yesterday. Support the show at realignment.supercast.com For today's episode, David Sacks, keynote speaker at Up From Chaos: Conserving American Security, cohost of the All-In podcast, and venture capitalist, joined Marshall and Saagar joined to discuss his case for foreign policy realism and non-intervention as the U.S. moves on from...

We're launching the next phase of The Realignment. Get in early. 11.04.2022 4:32

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230 | Ukraine Series Finale: Fredrik Logevall: Lessons from Pre-WWII JFK for Today 07.04.2022 1:04:58

For the series finale of The Realignment's daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with Dr. Fredrik Logevall, author of JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956. They discussed how college-aged JFK, his older brother Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., and their father, Joseph P. Kennedy, then serving as U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, responded to the lead up to World War II in Europe and what...

ANNOUNCEMENT: "I'm pretty tired. I think I'll go home now." 06.04.2022 3:57

Note: This is an announcement that tomorrow's Realignment episode marks the end of our Ukraine series. If you didn't get the Forrest Gump reference, I've finally reached my limit and am ending the daily series with tomorrow's episode. That said, we're spending a lot of time planning out the future of the show going into next week, so please write us at realignmentpod@gmail.com if you have thoughts...

229 | Rupert Russell: Commodity Markets and the Making of Our Chaotic World 05.04.2022 1:01:35

NOTE: This is the last week of The Realignment's daily Ukraine programming. For Day 23 of The Realignment's Daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with Rupert Russell, author of Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World. They discussed how observing global conflicts and events through the lens of commodity markets, how Chinese coal markets may have empowered Putin pre-invasion...