The Realignment

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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/

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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/

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

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

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