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200 | Kara Frederick: The Right vs. Big Tech, Debating Misinformation, & Nuanced Takes in Un-Nuanced Times Feb 15, 2022

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Kara Frederick, Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation and author of Combating Big Tech’s Totalitarianism: A Road Map, joins The Realignmen to discuss the right’s changing approach to tech, combatting terrorism and misinformation on social media, free speech, and more. Kara’s Report: https://www.heritage.org/technology/report/combating-big-techs-totalitarianism-road-map Link to Antonio’s Callin convo on 2/17 at 2:00 PM EST: https://www.callin.com/room/paypals-founders-on-the-new-paypal-book-the-hYyKmKzVxT SUPPORT/SEND US A TIP: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM

199 | Peter S. Goodman: How Billionaires Devoured the World Feb 10, 2022

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Peter S. Goodman, author of Davos Man: How Billionaires Devoured the World and Global Economics Correspondent at The New York Times, joins The Realignment to make the case that Wall Street and tech billionaires drove the destabilization and hollowing out of the American and global economy in the lead up to the COVID-19 pandemic. Liked this (or any other episode)? Send us a tip: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Visit our Bookshop storefront and support the show: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

198 | Erich Schwartzel: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy Feb 08, 2022

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197 | Joseph Weisberg: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War with Russia Feb 03, 2022

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Joseph Weisberg, the creator of FX’s The Americans, former CIA officer, and author of Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War, joins The Realignment to discuss how the U.S. should approach a conflict in Ukraine, how and when a second cold war began, what off-ramps look like, and how to assess and approach complicated issues. Liked this (or any other episode)? Send us a tip: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Visit our Bookshop storefront and support the show: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

196 | Sebastian Mallaby: How Venture Capital and the Power Law Shape the Future Feb 01, 2022

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Sebastian Mallaby, author of The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future, The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan, and More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite, joins The Realignment to offer a contrarian take on the importance of VC funds when it comes to technological progress, how VC-backed startups challenge big tech incumbents, and how China and the U.S. are pursuing different paths when it comes to regulating firms and the tech unicorns they fund. Liked this (or any other episode)? Send us a tip: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Visit our Bookshop storefront and support the show: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

195 | Frank DiStefano: How to Realign American Politics Jan 27, 2022

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Frank DiStefano, author of The Next Realignment: Why America’s Parties Are Crumbling and What Happens Next, returns to The Realignment for the third part of our series on what political realignments are, what they mean for the present, and how we can shape the system moving forward. Subscribe to Frank’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/FrankDiStefano Frank’s Interview with Andrew Yang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A2MSjz36GM Liked this (or any other episode)? Send us a tip: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Visit our Bookshop storefront and support the show: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

194 | Extended Q&A + Geoff Cain on Xinjiang’s Police State Jan 25, 2022

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Liked this (or any other episode)? Send us a tip: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Check out our special Bookshop on Russian history: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-s-guide-to-russia We’re going to start experimenting with extended content on The Realignment. This episode features an extended Q&A section on audience capture, Ukraine, political narratives going into 2024, and whether the U.S. still has a compelling narrative in the 21st century. After, Geoffrey Cain, a FACET Fellow at Lincoln Network and author of The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future and Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech, joins The Realignment to discuss China’s controversial treatment of its Uyghur population in Xianjiang.

193 | Realignment x The Deep End: Saagar Enjeti on Building Breaking Points Jan 20, 2022

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Send us questions for Tuesday’s Realignment Q&A episode: realignmentpod@gmail.com, reply to our Substack newsletter, or leaves us a 5-star review on Apple podcasts. Check out and subscribe to The Deep End before the new season launches in coming weeks: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-deep-end/id1568752165 Due to a misplaced driver’s license, Marshall’s trip back to NYC was delayed a day, so we, unfortunately, couldn’t record a fresh episode today. Instead, we decided to upload a previous interview from last year where Saagar appeared on The Deep End, Marshall’s other podcast focused on business, tech, and startups. Liked this (or any other episode)? Send us a tip: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM

192 | Jonathan M. Katz: Reckoning with American Empire + Debating “War Is a Racket” Jan 18, 2022

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Liked this (or any other episode)? Send us a tip: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Visit our Bookshop storefront and support the show: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Plus, here are the links to Jonathan’s Substack: https://theracket.news/ and his Gangsters Movie Night episode on Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay: https://theracket.news/p/gangsters-movie-night-harold-and Jonathan M. Katz, author of Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Remaking of America’s Empire and The Racket Substack, joins The Realignment to discuss the legacy of General Smedley Butler (the most decorated U.S. Marine in history) through the lens of his involvement in early 20th century interventions in Cuba, the Philippines, China, and Haiti, how we should reflect on America’s imperial legacy in the context of 21st century Chinese and Russian aggression, and how (or should) we evaluate present and future wars under his famous “War Is a Racket” speech/pamphlet.

191 | Glenn Hubbard: Walls vs. Bridges in a Disrupted America Jan 13, 2022

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