The Realignment Podcast
1) 569 | The Shah's Fall, Khomeini's Rise, and What It Means for the U.S. and Iran Today
Scott Anderson, author of King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion, and Catastrophic Miscalculation, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Scott discuss the historical legacy o...Show More
2) 568 | Jon Lee Anderson: Was Afghanistan the Graveyard of America's Empire?
Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker Staff Writer and author of To Lose a War: The Fall and the Rise of the Taliban, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Jon discuss the legacy of America's 20-year war in Afgh...Show More
3) 567 | Sam D'Amico & Noah Smith: Why Electricity Is Eating the World - How the Electric Tech Stack Will Dominate the 21st Century
Sam D'Amico, Founder & CEO of Impulse Labs, and Noah Smith, author of the Noahpinion Substack, join The Realignment. Marshall, Noah, and Sam discuss how the "Electric Tech Stack," a combination of adv...Show More
4) 566 | Osita Nwanevu: The Case for a New American Founding: Rethinking Democracy After 2024
Osita Nwanevu, author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Osita discuss a "re-founding" of America at the level of the p...Show More
5) 565 | Daniel Squadron: Rebuilding American Liberalism from the States Up
Daniel Squadron, former New York legislator and Co-Founder of the States Forum, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Daniel discuss why the center-left and the Democratic Party lack the kind of coheren...Show More
6) 564 | Steve Teles: What Democrats Can Learn from the GOP's Trump-Era Upheaval
In today's episode of The Realignment, the Niskanen Center's Steve Teles returns for a wide-ranging discussion about the Democratic Party's evolution during the Trump-era and what lessons it can and c...Show More
7) 563 | Sam Tanenhaus: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Battle for Political Ideas
Sam Tanenhaus, author of Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Sam unpack Buckley's influence on today's political landscape, how his ideas, de...Show More
8) 562 | Oren Cass: American Compass and the Right's Trump-Era Realignment
Oren Cass, Founder and Chief Economist of American Compass and editor of The New Conservatives: Restoring America's Commitment to Family, Community, and Industry, returns to The Realignment. Marshall ...Show More
9) 561 | Jeff Hauser vs. Paul Williams - Debating What the Abundance Agenda Gets Right and Wrong
Jeff Hauser, Founder and Executive Director of the Revolving Door Project & Paul E. Williams, Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Public Enterprise, join The Realignment's first-ever deba...Show More
10) 560 | Nancy Scola: How to Win the New Ideas War in Washington
Nancy Scola, Contributing Writer at Politico Magazine, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Nancy discuss the varied factors that determine which new ideas win out in Washington, the role of the mainst...Show More