The Realignment Podcast
1) 575 | Doug Most: Pragmatism in Action - WWII Shipbuilding, the Arsenal of Democracy, and Today’s Challenges
Doug Most, author of Launching Liberty: The Epic Race to Build the Ships That Took America to War, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Doug discuss the untold story of the construction of Liberty Ship...Show More
2) 574 | Nancy Scola: The Anti-Monopoly Summit, Abundance 2025, & National Conservatism - What D.C.’s Conference Season Really Revealed
Nancy Scola, reporter and journalist focused on the battle of ideas in Washington, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Nancy discuss the three big ideas-focused conferences in DC in September: Th...Show More
3) 573 | Danielle Lee Tomson: The Story & Authenticity Gap - Why the Center-Left Keeps Losing the Plot
Danielle Lee Tomson, author of the forthcoming Under the Influence: What's Real When America Feels Fake, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Danielle discuss the right's multi-decade project of partic...Show More
4) 572 | Season Premiere: Steve Teles on The Realignment's New Home at Niskanen & Where Abundance Goes Next After Last Week's Conference + A Note on Charlie Kirk
Steve Teles, Niskanen Senior Fellow and Johns Hopkins University Professor, returns to The Realignment. After a brief note on Charlie Kirk's assassination yesterday in Utah, Marshall and Steve discuss...Show More
5) 571 | Steve Teles: The Varieties of Abundance - Why Abundance Isn't Left, Right, or Center
Steve Teles, Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center, returns to The Realignment. Ahead of next week's 2025 Abundance in DC, Marshall and Steve discuss his new Niskanen Center paper on "The Varieties of ...Show More
6) 570 | Dan Wang: China's Engineering State, America's Lawyerly Society, and the Competition for the 21st Century
Dan Wang, Research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover History Lab and author of Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Dan discuss China's quest to be...Show More
7) 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
8) 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
9) 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
10) 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