The Realignment

Apply to attend The Realignment’s conference in Miami on October 22nd: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-realignment-conference-tickets-158996058491 Purchase Mercury Rising at The Realignment’s Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-bookshop Jeff Sheshol, author of Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War and founding partner at West Wing Writers, joins The Realignment to discuss Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson’s ambitions, how to balance private and public interests in space, and how the space race between NASA and the Soviet Union can help us understand competition between the U.S. and China in the 2020s.

Apply to attend The Realignment’s conference in Miami on October 22nd: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-realignment-conference-tickets-158996058491 Use code “realignment” to get a 50% discount to Lincoln Network’s evening event with Peter Thiel in Miami on October 20th: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-peter-thiel-tickets-157672156665 Bruno Maçães, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and author of The Dawn of Eurasia, Belt and Road, History Has Begun, and the forthcoming Geopolitics for the End Time: From the Pandemic to the Climate Crisis, returns to the Realignment to discuss the transformation of the international system before, during, and after COVID-19, and how the U.S. can accommodate the new status-quo.

Check out Lincoln Network's Policy Hackers program: https://www.hackpolicy.org/ Apply to attend The Realignment's conference on October 22nd in Miami: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-realignment-conference-tickets-158996058491 Antonio García Martínez, author of The Pull Request Substack and Chaos Monkeys; Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley, joins The Realignment to discuss tribalism in America, how social media fuels in-person (and virtual) conflict, the upending of the advertising industry, debates about online privacy, and what the invention of the printing press and religious conflicts tells us about polarization in America today. Buy a book from our bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

Apply to join Marshall, Saagar, and Katherine Boyle in Miami on October 22, 2021 for the first Realignment conference: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-realignment-conference-tickets-158996058491 Let us know if you have any questions about the conference at realignmentpod@gmail.com George Packer, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of The Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal and The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, joins The Realignment to discuss how America fractured into four parts and how it can come back together again. Buy a book from our bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

Apply to join Marshall, Saagar, and Katherine Boyle in Miami on October 22, 2021 for the first Realignment conference: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-realignment-conference-tickets-158996058491 Let us know if you have any questions about the conference at realignmentpod@gmail.com Katherine Boyle, partner at General Catalyst, joins The Realignment to discuss the prospects for America’s renewal, how the finance and tech diminished interest in public service, and what D.C. and Silicon Valley can learn from each other.

Dr. Julian Zelizer, Princeton professor and author of Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party, joins The Realignment to discuss the state of the Republican Party, how former Speaker Newt Gingrich changed the course of Congress, and how ambitious politicians rise to power. Subscribe to our Substack: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Buy a book from our bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Purchase a mug on our new website: https://www.therealignment.fm/

Josh Rogin, author of Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century and Washington Post columnist, returns to The Realignment to discuss the continued development of the COVID-19 Wuhan lab leak theory and what the story means for U.S.-China relations, the scientific community, media, domestic politics, and content moderation. Subscribe to our Substack: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Buy a book from our bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Purchase a mug on our new website: https://www.therealignment.fm/

Today’s episode is a crossover between The Realignment and Alex Kantrowitz’s podcast/newsletter Big Technology. Alex Kantrowitz returns to The Realignment to discuss the five new bills targeting big tech companies, what Lina Khan’s appointment as chair of the Federal Trade Commission means for the the industry, what the Wuhan lab-leak theory means for the future of content moderation, and whether conservatives get a fair shake on social media platforms.

Dr. Eric Weinstein, host of “The Portal” podcast and managing director at Thiel Capital, makes his third Realignment appearance to discuss where Marshall and Saagar should take The Realignment and Breaking Points, returning heterodox viewpoints to institutions, and why and how those who’ve tried to do so have failed so far.

Conor Dougherty, author of Golden Gates: The Housing Crisis and a Reckoning for the American Dream and New York Times economics reporter, joins The Realignment to unpack the housing crisis, the connection between homelessness and affordability, NIMBYs vs YIMBYs, and what a backlash to policies that increase construction could look like.