The Realignment

Mehran Sahami and Jeremy M. Weinstein, Stanford University professors and co-authors (with Rob Reich) of System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot, join The Realignment to discuss their new approach to empowering users, citizens, and technologists, and founders to develop new approaches to the tech industry’s future. You can preorder System Error at our Bookshop or wherever els...

Jeffrey Selingo, special advisor for innovation and professor of practice at Arizona State University and author of Who Gets In & Why: A Year Inside College Admissions, joins The Realignment as a new school year kicks off to discuss COVID’s effect in higher education, plus, debates over affirmative action, endowments, and student debt.

Amy Chua, professor at Yale Law School and author of Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, and Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, joins The Realignment to discuss how political and ethnic tribalism undermines American foreign policy and domestic politics.

Before we get back to our regularly scheduled programming on Thursday, we’re kicking this season off with the last extended Q&A episode for the foreseeable future. We’re working on the Realignment’s format this season, so be sure to tune in for more

Retired General Dan Bolger, author of Why We Lost: A General’s Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, joins The Realignment’s season premiere to discuss the rise and fall of America’s post-9/11 military interventions.

As of today, The Realignment’s released more than 150 episodes, so we’re taking a quick break today. If you’re new, go back and check out our previous episodes! If you haven’t given us a five-star review, purchased a book on our Bookshop, checked out our conference, or subscribed to the Substack, please do so below: https://therealignment.substack.com/ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-realignment-...

Theodore R. Johnson, author of When the Stars Begin to Fall: Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of America and Senior Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law, joins The Realignment to discuss race in America through debates over America’s “original sin,” reparations, policing, political preferences, and more...

Spencer Ackerman, writer of the Forever Wars Substack, Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and and Produced Trump, and contributing editor at The Daily Beast joins The Realignment to discuss the post-9/11 era, the legacy of the War on Terror, and the Biden administration’s plans to withdraw from Afghanistan in September.

Kinsey Grant and Josh Kaplan, co-founders of Thinking Is Cool, join The Realignment to discuss the best ways to podcast and build media companies in 2021, debate whether billionaires should exist, whether platforms like Spotify should police their star’s content, and what the successor to cable news could look like.

Vivek Ramaswamy, Executive Chairman of Roivant Sciences and author of Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam, joins The Realignment to debate whether companies should take stands on issues like Black Lives Matter, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other political issues, the social contract between corporations and the public, and the role of identity in a hyper-polarized America.

Learn more about Statehouse Futures: http://www. StatehouseFutures.org Amanda Litman, co-founder of Run for Something, and Pete Davis, co-founder of the Democracy Policy Network, join The Realignment to discuss Statehouse Futures, their progressive policy and strategy, one of the largest convenings of state and local leaders of the year, why progressives and Democrats have struggled locally the la...

Robert Draper, writer at large for The New York Times Magazine and author of To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq, joins The Realignment to discuss the process that led President Bush to make one of the worst foreign policy decisions in American history.

Apply to attend The Realignment’s conference in Miami on October 22nd: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-realignment-conference-tickets-158996058491 Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang, technology reporters at The New York Times and authors of An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination, join The Realignment to discuss Facebook’s fall from grace, whether antitrust action will address complai...

Apply to attend The Realignment’s conference in Miami on October 22nd: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-realignment-conference-tickets-158996058491 Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell, authors of The Cult of We: Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion and Wall Street Journal reporters, join The Realignment to discuss what the rise and fall of Adam Neumann’s WeWork says about venture capital, Wall...

Apply to attend The Realignment’s conference in Miami on October 22nd: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-realignment-conference-tickets-158996058491 Purchase Mercury Rising at The Realignment’s Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-bookshop Jeff Sheshol, author of Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War and founding partner at West Wing Writ...

Apply to attend The Realignment’s conference in Miami on October 22nd: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-realignment-conference-tickets-158996058491 Use code “realignment” to get a 50% discount to Lincoln Network’s evening event with Peter Thiel in Miami on October 20th: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-peter-thiel-tickets-157672156665 Bruno Maçães, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute...

Check out Lincoln Network's Policy Hackers program: https://www.hackpolicy.org/ Apply to attend The Realignment's conference on October 22nd in Miami: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-realignment-conference-tickets-158996058491 Antonio García Martínez, author of The Pull Request Substack and Chaos Monkeys; Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley, joins The Realignment to discuss triba...

Apply to join Marshall, Saagar, and Katherine Boyle in Miami on October 22, 2021 for the first Realignment conference: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-realignment-conference-tickets-158996058491 Let us know if you have any questions about the conference at realignmentpod@gmail.com George Packer, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of The Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal and The U...

Apply to join Marshall, Saagar, and Katherine Boyle in Miami on October 22, 2021 for the first Realignment conference: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-realignment-conference-tickets-158996058491 Let us know if you have any questions about the conference at realignmentpod@gmail.com Katherine Boyle, partner at General Catalyst, joins The Realignment to discuss the prospects for America’s renewal, h...

Dr. Julian Zelizer, Princeton professor and author of Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party, joins The Realignment to discuss the state of the Republican Party, how former Speaker Newt Gingrich changed the course of Congress, and how ambitious politicians rise to power. Subscribe to our Substack: https://therealignment.substack.com/...

Josh Rogin, author of Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century and Washington Post columnist, returns to The Realignment to discuss the continued development of the COVID-19 Wuhan lab leak theory and what the story means for U.S.-China relations, the scientific community, media, domestic politics, and content moderation. Subscribe to our Substack: https://thereali...

Today’s episode is a crossover between The Realignment and Alex Kantrowitz’s podcast/newsletter Big Technology. Alex Kantrowitz returns to The Realignment to discuss the five new bills targeting big tech companies, what Lina Khan’s appointment as chair of the Federal Trade Commission means for the the industry, what the Wuhan lab-leak theory means for the future of content moderation, and whether...

Dr. Eric Weinstein, host of “The Portal” podcast and managing director at Thiel Capital, makes his third Realignment appearance to discuss where Marshall and Saagar should take The Realignment and Breaking Points, returning heterodox viewpoints to institutions, and why and how those who’ve tried to do so have failed so far.

Conor Dougherty, author of Golden Gates: The Housing Crisis and a Reckoning for the American Dream and New York Times economics reporter, joins The Realignment to unpack the housing crisis, the connection between homelessness and affordability, NIMBYs vs YIMBYs, and what a backlash to policies that increase construction could look like.

Charlotte Alter, a Time national correspondent and author of The Ones Weve Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America joins The Realignment to discuss the careers and impact of the first millennials to hold political office, the prospects for both parties over the next few decades, and whether social media era politicians have the skills to actually address big proble...