The Realignment 572 | Season Premiere: Steve Teles on The Realignment's New Home at Niskanen & Where Abundance Goes Next After Last Week's Conference + A Note on Charlie Kirk
Sep 11, 2025
Steve Teles, a Senior Fellow at Niskanen and a professor at Johns Hopkins, dives into the complex landscape of political discourse following recent events. He discusses the ramifications of Charlie Kirk's assassination and its ties to historical political violence. The conversation highlights tensions within the Abundance project, contrasting 'abundance' interpretations, and the challenges faced by moderates. Teles emphasizes the importance of inclusivity and transparency in political dialogues, especially regarding critical issues like crime and energy policies.
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Expand Your Housing Toolkit
- Use a toolkit approach: combine regulatory, financing, and capacity fixes rather than choosing one silver bullet.
- Empower local governments to act because many abundance levers are within their authority.
Populism And Abundance Can Be Complementary
- Economic-populist critiques (financing, corporate power) can complement supply-focused abundance solutions.
- The debate should shift from identity politics about donors to empirical questions about what actually increases supply.
Abundance Is Plural, Not Monolithic
- 'Abundance' contains multiple varieties (liberal, Cascadian, moderate synthesis) rather than a single ideology.
- Participants can belong to different varieties while contributing to a broader pluralist movement.
