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327 | Welcome to 2023 - Navigating Political & Market Chaos with Bradley Tusk Jan 10, 2023

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Bradley 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.

326 | Ian Kershaw: The Personalities Who Built and Destroyed Modern Europe Dec 14, 2022

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Ian 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.

325 | Shannon K. O'Neil: The Globalization Myth - Why Regions Matter Dec 13, 2022

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Shannon 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.

324 | Paul Millerd: Imagining a New Story for Work with the Pathless Path Dec 12, 2022

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Paul 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.

323 | James Rickards: How Broken Supply Chains Will Sink the Global Economy Dec 09, 2022

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James 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.

322 | Jeremi Suri: America's Unfinished War Over Democracy Dec 08, 2022

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Jeremi 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.

321 | Beverly Gage: How the FBI and Its Politics Shaped the American Century Dec 07, 2022

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Beverly 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.

320 | Trae Stephens: Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy Dec 06, 2022

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Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy: https://www.rebootingthearsenal.com/
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Trae 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.

319 | Frank Dikötter: Shattering the Myths of China After Mao Dec 05, 2022

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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.

318 | Noah Smith: Vibe Shifting Out of the Long 2010s Dec 02, 2022

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Noah Smith's Substack: https://noahpinion.substack.com/
Vibe Shift Piece: https://www.thecut.com/2022/02/a-vibe-shift-is-coming.html
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Noah 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."

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