The Realignment

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/.Geoffrey's Testimony: https://lincolnpolicy.org/2022/testimony-of-geoffrey-cain-to-the-u-s-senate-committee-on-homeland-security-and-governmental-affairs/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: realignmentpod@gmail.comGeoffrey Cain, Lincoln Network Senior Fellow in the FACET program and author of The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey Into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future, returns to The Realignment to discuss his recent Congressional testimony about the national security threat posed by TikTok, the state of U.S.-China tech relations, and how the U.S. government should approach the app, even if straight a ban isn't on the table. 

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Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/.REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: realignmentpod@gmail.comDavid Phillips, author of Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy SEALs and Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times national correspondent, joins The Realignment to discuss scandals within the Navy Seal community, the U.S. military's problem meeting recruitment goals, and whether today's struggles rhyme with the aftermath of the Vietnam War?

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/.REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: realignmentpod@gmail.comJonathan Darman, author of Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President and Landslide: LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America, joins The Realignment to discuss how FDR, LBJ, and Ronald Reagan became transformational presidents (for good and for ill), the role of individuals vs. institutions in shaping the country, and how personal struggles can transform leaders.

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/.REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: realignmentpod@gmail.comMichael Tomasky, Editor of The New Republic and Editor in Chief of Democracy, joins The Realignment to discuss how progressives are reimaging economics to confront the neoliberal era's failures, why rising inequality and upward distribution is the central challenge facing America, and how the Biden administration's agenda reflects an emerging economic consensus in the Democratic Party.

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Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/.REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: realignmentpod@gmail.comMark Bergen, technology reporter and author of Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination, joins The Realignment to discuss why YouTube flies under the radar in the big tech conversation, how the company addressed free speech and election challenges, and how it upended the media industry.

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/.Note: See tomorrow's Substack for the full list of books we mention in this episode. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: realignmentpod@gmail.comSaagar and Marshall discuss the dual anniversaries of 9/11 and the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan falling the fall of Kabul in 2021, lessons from the War on Terror, and the history of civil-military relations since the end of World War II.

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/.The Pull Request: https://www.callin.com/show/the-pull-request-ucnDJmEKAaBalaji Srinivasan's Network State Realignment Episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/264-balaji-srinivasan-how-and-why-to-start-new-countries/id1474687988?i=1000569114998The Network State: https://thenetworkstate.com/Antonio's Previous Realignment Appearance: https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/140-antonio-garc%C3%ADa-mart%C3%ADnez-americas-thirty-years-war/id1474687988?i=1000528206653&l=enREALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: realignmentpod@gmail.comDuring our Labor Day Weekend hiatus, Marshall joined previous Realignment guest Antonio García Martinez's Callin podcast The Pull Request. They discussed "What’s broken, why, and how to fix it (or do we just move to Balaji’s network state?)"

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/.REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: realignmentpod@gmail.comKatherine Blunt, Wall Street Journal reporter and author of California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric - and What It Means for America's Power Grid, joins The Realignment to discuss the challenge of fixing the nation's overstrained and outmoded power grid, the role of utilities in the wildfire epidemic, and the new energy challenges facing America in the 2020s.