The Realignment

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/PURCHASE ONE PERSON ONE, VOTE AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: realignmentpod@gmail.comNick Seabrook, author of One Person, One Vote: A Surprising History of Gerrymandering in America, joins The Realignment to discuss the history of gerrymandering and its costs, the need for responsive politics, why despite its long history, gerrymandering is particularly harmful today,  and the reasons why campaign finance reform, electoral reform, and new parties won't solve America's polarization problem.

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/.Links to Peter Leyden's Writing:https://www.peterleyden.com/writingREALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail us at: realignmentpod@gmail.comPeter Leyden, Host of the Civilization Salons at The Long Now Foundation and former Managing Editor of Wired Magazine, joins The Realignment to discuss his optimistic perspective on America's future, why California's recent political history is a preview of America's long-term trajectory, the forces and dynamics that will shape the 21st century, and looks back on The Long Boom, his 1990s era imaging of the present day.

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.comBalaji Srinivasan, author of The Network State, returns to The Realignment to discuss why he thinks internet-native "Network States" are the successors to the nation-state, how he sees American and global politics reorienting around cryptocurrencies in the 2020s, compares and contrasts the prospects of the United States, China, and India, and why mainstream elites will struggle to navigate this emergent order.

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to listen to this episode, and all of our other bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/.In this teaser of today's bonus episode for Supercast subscribers, Marshall and Saagar answer questions from our Supercast AMA page. We cover: Does choosing not to vote lead to change? Saagar and Marshall's advice on deciding to attend graduate school. How do we rank modern presidents? Does Peter Zeihan vindicate the foreign policy establishment? And more...

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.comThis episode and our expanded coverage are made possible thanks to our Supercast subscribers. If you can, please support the show above.Steven McGregor, co-author with Brendan Simms of The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway, joins The Realignment to discuss how the lessons of the U.S. victory in the Pacific apply to today, how the Battle of Midway revealed the country's fundamental strengths, the state of naval readiness, and the new challenge to the status quo in the Asia-Pacific region.

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.comThis episode and our expanded coverage are made possible thanks to our Supercast subscribers. If you can, please support the show above.Saagar and Marshall reflect on this week's episodes with a16z's Marc Andreessen and Katherine Boyle and discuss how last week's Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade will shift short, medium, and long-term American politics. They conclude with lighter segments arguing for the importance of suits and ties (at least sometimes) and Saagar's deeper explanation of his critique of Europe that went viral on Twitter.

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.comThis episode and our expanded coverage are made possible thanks to our Supercast subscribers. If you can, please support the show above.Katherine Boyle, general partner at a16z and co-lead of the firm's American Dynamism practice, joins The Realignment to discuss how the frame of American Dynamism as a response to technological and societal stagnation, her optimism about the United States, and why the ability to "build," hold oneself accountable, and deliver results will be increasingly prized in founders and politicians alike. 

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.comThis episode and our expanded coverage are made possible thanks to our Supercast subscribers. If you can, please support the show above.Marc Andreessen, cofounder and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, cofounder of Netscape, and co-creator of the influential Mosaic web browser joins The Realignment to discuss how the second industrial revolution (1880s-1920s) shapes his view of America today, the consequences of the shift from a high to low institutional trust society, the response to Web3 skeptics, how crashes shape the tech industry, and why it's "time to build."

Due to a delayed discussion episode this week, we're unlocking our June 15th Supercast Q&A/AMA for free listeners of the show. If you'd like to support The Realignment and access our other two pieces of subscriber-only content, go to realignment.supercast.com. 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.comThis episode and our expanded coverage are made possible thanks to our Supercast subscribers. If you can, please support the show above.

Warning, this episode contains spoilers for Top Gun: Maverick.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.comThis episode and our expanded coverage are made possible thanks to our Supercast subscribers. If you can, please support the show above.Chris Fenton, Hollywood executive and author of Feeding the Dragon: Inside the Trillion Dollar Dilemma Facing Hollywood, the NBA, & American Busines, joins The Realignment to discuss what the success of Top Gun: Maverick means for the future of Hollywood, considering that it will soon cross $1 billion in global box office without the lucrative Chinese market.