The Realignment

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Thomas P.M. Barnett, author of America's New Map: Restoring Our Global Leadership in an Era of Climate Change and Demographic Collapse and the Pentagon's New Map trilogy, joins The Realignment. Thomas and Marshall discuss why the world is shifting from a 20th century East-West orientation to a North-South orientation in the 21st century, the impact of demographic collapse across the industrialized world, how America can reconcile itself with the fact that it no longer controls globalization's path, and why the superpower competition to deliver growth and security to the rising global middle class will define the rest of the century. 

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Yascha Mounk, author of The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time, returns to The Realignment. Yascha and Marshall discuss how during the 2010s, postmodernism, postcolonialism, and critical race theory forged what he calls the "identity synthesis," why new conceptions of identity and social justice ultimately became counterproductive, and his belief that universal, humanist values are the best path towards true equality.

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Mathias Döpfner, Chairman & CEO of Axel Springer SE, the biggest digital publisher in Europe and owner of U.S. media brands Insider, Morning Brew, and Politico, joins The Realignment. Mathias is the author of a new book: The Trade Trap: How to Stop Doing Business with Dictators. Marshall and Mathias discuss his proposal for a new trade regime based upon a values-based alliance of democracies, the cost of doing business with dictators, Germany's revamped post-Ukraine invasion foreign policy, and how encounters with figures from Vladimir Putin to Jack Ma shaped the book's perspective. 

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Cenk Uygur, host and founder of The Young Turks, co-founder of the Justice Democrats PAC, and author of Justice Is Coming: How Progressives Are Going to Take Over the Country and America Is Going to Love It, joins The Realignment. Cenk and Marshall discuss and debate the degree to which the mainstream media influences the electoral of Democratic primary voters, the degree to which pay-for-play corruption influences the beliefs of Representatives and Senators, President Biden's re-election chances, and the past, present, and future of the progressive movement in America.

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Zeke Faux, investigative reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek, New America National Fellow, and author of Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall, joins The Realignment. Zeke and Marshall discuss how Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) conned his way into the halls of power in Washington, DC, why crypto failed to develop a clear use case for consumers during the bull run, the quest for community, the perils of financialization, and his time with everything from the Bored Ape Yacht Club to Bitcoin Beach in El Salvador.  

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Loren Grush, Space Reporter for Bloomberg and author of The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts, joins The Realignment. Loren and Marshall discuss the Artemis program, NASA's manned return to the Moon, aimed at paving the way for a mission to Mars, the successes and failures of the Space Shuttle program, the role of NASA amidst the rise of the commercial space industry, and the history of how women entered NASA's astronaut ranks after the end of the Apollo program in the 1970s.

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Kevin Vallier, author of All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Kevin discuss Catholic integralism and other new and radical religious alternatives to liberal democracy, why the 20th century didn't spell the end of faith-infused political movements, the revival of religious politics in Russia, India, Poland, and Turkey, and how a religiously infused politics would operate in an increasingly secular America.

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Jonathan Taplin, author of The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires Are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto and The Magic Years: Scenes from a Rock-and-Roll Life, joins The Realignment. Marshall and discuss and debate whether the Metaverse, Crypto, and the mission to Mars are worthy projects, how politics is downstream from culture and technology, and his time managing Bob Dylan's tours in the 60s, producing with Martin Scorsese in the 70s, and work on Wall Street and the tech industry during the 80s and 90s. 

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Franklin Foer, author of The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future, joins The Realignment. Franklin and Marshall discuss his insider-driven portrait of the first two years of the Biden presidency, why Biden is best understood as the "last politician," why the Biden administration continued Trump's hawkish turn against China, the highs and lows of 2021-22, and how Biden's age and the public's assessment of his ability to handle the rigors of the presidency will be one of the defining issues of 2024.