The Realignment

PURCHASE LAND IS A BIG DEAL: https://www.landisabigdeal.com/Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/.REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: realignmentpod@gmail.comLars Doucet, author of Land is a Big Deal: Why rent is too High, Wages too Low, and What We Can do About It, joins The Realignment to argue that Georgism, the economic/political philosophy of Henry George, an often forgotten 19th-century thinker, is the best lens to analyze America's housing affordability and wage stagnation challenges.   

Email us at: realignmentpod@gmail.com to submit your responses/comments to next week's free Q&A episode.Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/.REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentAs we wait for the full results of the 2022 midterms, check out the audio version of Saagar Enjeti, Marshall Kosloff, Kyle Kulinski, and Krystal Ball's analysis of the 2022 midterms. Next week we'll be back with a full-episode and un-paywalled Q&A around the results.

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Johnathan Bi, host and creator of a new seven-part series on René Girard's political thought, joins The Realignment to discuss the case for studying political philosophy, Mimetic Theory's theoretical and practical applications, and how Girard's work explains 21st-century economic challenges and fears of a nuclear apocalypse. More about Johnathan: https://johnathanbi.com/Johnathan's Lecture Series: https://johnathanbi.com/lecturesSubscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/.REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: realignmentpod@gmail.com

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/.REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: realignmentpod@gmail.comSaagar and Marshall discuss Elon Musk's post-acquisition plans for Twitter amid the so-called "death" of social media and give their pre-midterms predictions/analysis.

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/.REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: realignmentpod@gmail.comLyle Jeremy Rubin, author of Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body: A Marine's Unbecoming, joins The Realignment to discuss how his time as a Marine officer in Afghanistan led him to re-evaluate his perspectives on American hegemony, capitalism, and his neoconservative political beliefs. He also discusses how the debates within the American left about the proper response to the war in Ukraine and Russian and Chinese imperial projects.

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Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/.REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: realignmentpod@gmail.comJai Malik, founder and General Partner at Countdown Capital, and Lucas Bagno, an investor at Village Global and co-host of the Solarpunk podcast, joined The Realignment for a live recording at Lincoln Network's Reboot Conference in Miami last week. They discussed the need to rebuild America's industrial base, the need to invest in areas including aerospace, manufacturing, defense, energy, and construction, and which challenges can be solved by startups and venture capital, and what requires actual policy change.

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/.REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: realignmentpod@gmail.comTimothy Shenk, historian and author of Realigners: Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries, and the Struggle to Rule American Democracy, joins The Realignment to discuss who popular majorities, leaders, activists, and visionaries have translated ideas to action in order to transform the American political system.