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David McCormick, 2022 Pennsylvania Senate candidate, former CEO of Bridgewater, and author (with James Cunningham) of Superpower in Peril: A Battle Plan to Renew America, joins The Realignment. David and Marshall discuss his takeaways from the 2022 Senate race, how the right can balance between populism and traditional conservatism, and the effectiveness of Biden administration policies such as the CHIPS Act.

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Mariana Mazzucato, author (with Rosie Collington) of The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies, joins The Realignment. Mariana and Marshall discuss how her critique of consulting fits into her previous work on the future of capitalism, the failures of "expert" consultants in business and government, from Healthcare.gov to COVID,  and what a reformed role for the industry looks like.

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Steve Krakauer, author of Uncovered: How the Media Got Cozy with Power, Abandoned Its Principles, and Lost the People, joins The Realignment to discuss what went wrong with the media's coverage of the biggest stories of the Trump presidency, what independent and alternative media gets right (and wrong), and what shifting business models mean for the future of political coverage.

Liz Hoffman,  Business and Finance Editor at Semafor and author of Crash Landing: The Inside Story of How the World's Biggest Companies Survived an Economy on the Brink, joins The Realignment to discuss the tradeoffs between economic efficiency and resilience, why the roots of the COVID crash lay in the splitscreen performance of the American economy in the 2010s (stock market highs for top, stagnation for the bottom), which companies and industries won the post-COVID economic moment, and how the overwhelming governmental response in 2020 indicates a changed approach to future crashes.

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Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, authors of The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market, join The Realignment to discuss why they believe a myth-driven "market fundamentalism" is at the center of America's economic, political, and social ills. 

Vivek Ramaswamy, 2024 presidential candidate and author of Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam and Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence, returns to The Realignment to discuss all things public policy.

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Elbridge Colby, co-founder of The Marathon Initiative, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development, and author of The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict, returns to The Realignment to follow up on last year's episode on what Russia's invasion of Ukraine means for Taiwan. Elbridge and Marshall discuss whether the U.S. can "walk and chew gum at the same time," what a "Twelve-Step" program for revitalizing the defense industrial base looks like, and how the U.S. can deter conflict in the Asia-Pacific region.

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Pete Newell, CEO of BMNT and former director of the U.S. Army's Rapid Equipping Force, joins The Realignment to discuss his efforts to adapt the military to the rapidly shifting battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, innovation lessons from the war in Ukraine, the impact of technological change, and how large organizations such as the Department of Defense can solve critical problems at startup speed.

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Martin Wolf, author of The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, joins The Realignment to discuss why the marriage between democracy and capitalism is coming undone, the nature of our systemic crisis, what critics of capitalism and democracy get right (and wrong), and why democratic capitalism is superior to the alternatives.