The Realignment

Michael Shellenberger, author of San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities, returns to The Realignment to argue that progressive governance has failed on its own terms to address, why he still considers himself a “liberal” even though many on the right are inclined to agree with his critiques, how to address homelessness and housing shortages, and more... 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

Derek Robertson, Contributing Editor to Politico Magazine, joins The Realigment to discuss what Glenn Youngkin’s Virginia gubernatorial upset means for the future of American politics, how new culture wars over race and education differ from 1990s-2000s fights of gay marriage and abortion, and how President Biden and Democrats will cope. 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

Kyla Scanlon, prominent TikTok and YouTube financial analyst, joins The Realignment to discuss the emerging issues and ideas of the moment: Facebook’s pivot to the metaverse, the inflation debate, the promise (and need for clarifty about) Web3, what some see as the internet’s next evolution, the continuing supply chain crunch, and much, much more. Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Subscribe to Kyla’s Substack: https://kyla.substack.com/ Visit The Realignment’s Bookshop to support the show: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-bookshop

Today we’re featuring excerpts from our Realignment conference in Miami. Antonio García Martínez on how culture, economics, and politics are downstream from technology. Jacob Helberg on his book: The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power. Mike Solana on local politics when everything’s hyper-nationalized. 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

Ross Douthat, New York Times columnist and author of The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery, returns to The Realignment to discuss his struggle with Lyme disease, the push and pull between what the medical establishment does and doesn’t know, and what it all means for COVID era debates about misinformation/censorship, treatment options, and alternative care. Support The Realignment and purchase Ross Douthat’s new book: The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery at The Realignment’s Bookshop Storefront: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-bookshop

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 Christopher Mims, author of Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door -- Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy and Wall Street Journal technology columnist, joins The Realignment to tell the story of the worldwide supply chain crunch, from the 2018 trade war between China and the U.S. to the decline of the trucking industry.

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 Ronald Daniels, President of Johns Hopkins University and author of What Universities Owe Democracy, joins The Realignment to discuss the role of the university system in American democracy, the degree to which it does (or doesn’t) live up to its promise, and answers the critiques of skeptics of the American higher education system.

Parag Khanna, Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap and author of Move: The Forces Uprooting Us and The Future Is Asian: Commerce, Conflict & Culture in the 21st Century, joins The Realignment to discuss how the unprecedented mass movement of individuals and the rise of Asia and the relative decline of Europe and North America will impact the future politics, business, culture, and technology.

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 Evan Osnos, author of Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury, Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now, and Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, and staff writer at The New Yorker, joins The Realignment to discuss the state of the U.S. and China and what Joe Biden’s presidency means for both countries.

Jacob Helberg, senior adviser at the Stanford University Center on Geopolitics and Technology, former news policy lead at Google, and author of The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power, joins The Realignment to discuss how technological conflict will reshape the world order, describes the hidden back-end battle to control the internet’s hardware, and the past, present, and future of U.S.-China relations through the lens of a potential conflict over Taiwan.