The Realignment

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190 | Christopher Leonard: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy Jan 11, 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 Christopher Leonard, author of The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Powe rin America, and The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business, joins The Realignment to argue that the Federal Reserve’s policies over the past decade have accelerated income inequality and put the country’s economic stability at risk.

189 | Stephen Marche: Is the U.S. on the Path to Dissolution? Jan 06, 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 Stephen Marche, author of The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future, joins The Realignment to discuss why he believes America is coming to an end, how the 21st century will make it difficult for nation-states to hold together, and why and how civil conflict could emerge from the country’s divisions.

188 | Roy Bahat: How Can We Build a Win-Win Society? Dec 30, 2021

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Marshall and Saagar’s Book’s of the Year Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/lists/marshall-and-saagar-s-realignment-2021-books-of-the-year Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Roy Bahat, head of Bloomberg Beta, a venture firm investing in the future of work and former co-chair of New America’s Shift Commission on Work, Workers, and Technology, joins The Realignment to discuss the challenges facing labor and capital, the future of work, and how the technology can (and can’t) redefine questions of representation and ownership.

187 | Greg Lukianoff: The Second Great Age of Political Correctness Dec 28, 2021

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Greg Lukianoff, President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, joins The Realignment to discuss the differences between debates over political correctness in the 80s/90s and today, how “PC” is different from “wokeness,” and how speech fights play out on college campuses. Marshall and Saagar’s Book’s of the Year Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/lists/marshall-and-saagar-s-realignment-2021-books-of-the-year Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/

186 | Anne Helen Petersen and Charlie Warzel: The Problem and Promise of WFH Dec 21, 2021

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Marshall and Saagar’s Book’s of the Year Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/lists/marshall-and-saagar-s-realignment-2021-books-of-the-year Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Anne Helen Petersen and Charlie Warzel, authors of Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home and respective writers of the Culture Study and Galazy Brain newsletters, join The Realignment to discuss how work-from-home has *ahem* realigned the workplace, the great resignation, how financial crisis and pandemics will shape Millenials/Gen Z’s futures, and more.

185 | Mark Yzaguirre: Realignment or Not, Normies Get Votes Dec 16, 2021

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Writer and attorney Mark Yzaguirre joins The Realignment to discuss our show’s original focus: cultural, economic, and political realignments are reshaping the right and left. Marshall and Saagar’s Book’s of the Year Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/lists/marshall-and-saagar-s-realignment-2021-books-of-the-year Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/

184 | Steve LeVine: The U.S. and China’s Great EV Battery War and the Next Supply Chain Crunch Dec 14, 2021

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Steve Levine, editor of The Information’s ‘The Electric’ newsletter and author of The Powerhouse: America, China, and the Great Battery War, joins The Realignment to discuss the global competition to develop electric vehicle batteries, why China dominates the battery supply chains, and the state Tesla, Rivian, and the Big Three legacy automakers. Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Visit The Realignment’s Bookshop to support the show: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-bookshop

183 | Matt Ridley: Lessons from Investigating the Origins of COVID-19 Dec 09, 2021

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Matt Ridley, co-author (with postdoctoral researcher Alina Chan) of Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 and member of the United Kingdom’s House of Lords, joins The Realignment to discuss lessons from leading a decentralized scientific investigation into COVID’s origins, how the leading scientific journals, mainstream outlets, and governments have helped or stymied the investigation, what we currently do and don’t know about COVID’s origins, and why it matters. Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Visit The Realignment’s Bookshop to support the show: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-bookshop

182 | Alex Kantrowitz: Twitter’s New Leadership, Moving on from the Facebook Whistleblower, and Questions About the Internet’s Future Dec 07, 2021

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Alex Kantrowitz, writer and host of the Big Technology Substack newsletter and podcast, returns to The Realignment to discuss post-Jack Dorsey Twitter, why the discourse’s moving on from Frances Haugen’s Facebook whistleblowing, and how to think about the transition from Web2 to Web3. Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Visit The Realignment’s Bookshop to support the show: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-bookshop

181 | Kyle Strickland: 20th Century Racial Liberalism’s Reached a Dead End. What’s Next? Dec 02, 2021

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Kyle Strickland, Deputy Director, Race and Democracy at the Roosevelt Institute joins The Realignment to build upon last week’s episode with John McWhorter. Kyle is the co-author of a new report: A New Paradigm for Justice and Democracy: Moving Beyond the Twin Failures of Neoliberalism and Racial Liberalism. In this episode, he discusses the past, present, and future of the civil rights movement, the tie between race and class, and how 20th-century paradigms no longer provide the framework for governing the United States. Kyle Strickland and Felicia Wong’s paper on race and neoliberalism: https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/new-paradigm-for-justice-and-democracy-moving-beyond-the-twin-failures-of-neoliberalism-and-racial-liberalism/ Visit The Realignment’s Bookshop to support the show: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-bookshop

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