The Realignment

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269 | Season Finale: Eve Fairbanks on What South Africa's Reckoning Means for the U.S. Jul 22, 2022

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For the show's season finale (we're back in August) Eve Fairbanks, author of The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning, joins The Realignment to discuss parallels between 21st century South Africa and the United States when it comes to issues of race, class, economics, and optimism vs. pessimism. Eve and Marshall also discuss post-Apartheid South Africa in the context of our reevaluation of early 1990s triumphs such as the Cold War.

268 | Saagar & Marshall on Realignments + Mark Leibovich on Trump's DC Jul 21, 2022

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After last week's technical difficulties, we've combined two recordings that were cut short. First, Saagar and Marshall discuss the NYT's new poll on the realignment of American politics on issues of race, class, and deep dissatisfaction with the status quo. Then, Marshall interviews The Atlantic's Mark Leibovich, author of This Town, a negative portrait of DC during the height of the Obama era, about his new book, Thank You for Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission.

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

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In this teaser of today's bonus episode for Supercast subscribers, Marshall and Saagar answer questions from our Supercast AMA page.

267 | Matthew Ball: How the Metaverse Could Revolutionize Everything Jul 19, 2022

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Matthew Ball, author of The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything, joins The Realignment to argue the Metaverse represents the "next internet," explains why the term is everywhere, defines what the concept is (and isn't), and how it could upend the digital and real worlds alike.

Note for Listeners About Today and Tomorrow's Episodes, Season Finale, and Subscribe to the Show! Jul 14, 2022

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Due to technical difficulties, we're releasing today and tomorrow's episodes next week. After next Friday, we're taking the week of July 25th off before coming back the week of August 1st. Check the show notes of this recording for links to our Supercast subscription, sign up for tomorrow's Substack, and our Bookshop.

266 | Nick Seabrook: Gerrymandering, Responsive Politics, and the Threat to Democracy Jul 12, 2022

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Nick Seabrook, author of One Person, One Vote: A Surprising History of Gerrymandering in America, joins The Realignment to discuss the history of gerrymandering and its costs, the need for responsive politics, why despite its long history, gerrymandering is particularly harmful today, and the reasons why campaign finance reform, electoral reform, and new parties won't solve America's polarization problem.

265 | Peter Leyden: Is California the Future of American Politics? Jul 08, 2022

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Peter Leyden, Host of the Civilization Salons at The Long Now Foundation and former Managing Editor of Wired Magazine, joins The Realignment to discuss his optimistic perspective on America's future, why California's recent political history is a preview of America's long-term trajectory, the forces and dynamics that will shape the 21st century, and looks back on The Long Boom, his 1990s era imaging of the present day.

264 | Balaji Srinivasan: How and Why to Start New Countries Jul 07, 2022

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Balaji Srinivasan, author of The Network State, returns to The Realignment to discuss why he thinks internet-native "Network States" are the successors to the nation-state, how he sees American and global politics reorienting around cryptocurrencies in the 2020s, compares and contrasts the prospects of the United States, China, and India, and why mainstream elites will struggle to navigate this emergent order.

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

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In this teaser of today's bonus episode for Supercast subscribers, Marshall and Saagar answer questions from our Supercast AMA page.

We cover: Does choosing not to vote lead to change? Saagar and Marshall's advice on deciding to attend graduate school. How do we rank modern presidents? Does Peter Zeihan vindicate the foreign policy establishment? And more...

263 | Steven McGregor: Will the U.S. Win the Next Battle of Midway? Jul 05, 2022

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Steven McGregor, co-author with Brendan Simms of The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway, joins The Realignment to discuss how the lessons of the U.S. victory in the Pacific apply to today, how the Battle of Midway revealed the country's fundamental strengths, the state of naval readiness, and the new challenge to the status quo in the Asia-Pacific region.

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