The Realignment: Clubhouse Invite Contest Details, Ben Fritz and David Sacks, and More...
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We published two episodes this week: Ben Fritz on the future of Hollywood, and David Sacks of The All-In Podcast on California, insiders vs. outsiders, and the future of the tech industry.
Be sure to check out Ben’s book at our Bookshop.
This section’s shorter than usual since we know that you all are looking to get to the Clubhouse contest details below.
CLUBHOUSE INVITE CONTEST DETAILS
We’ve received an overwhelming number of requests for invites to Clubhouse and we simply don’t have enough to go around. So we’re going to run a contest this week to distribute 10 invites to those of you who are interested. Clubhouse is currently for iPhone users only (sorry that’s on Clubhouse, not us).
We can tell you that we’ve got some exciting plans for Clubhouse over the next few months, so we’d love to bring some of you onto the app before it opens to the general public.
The rules are simple. Over the next 24 hours post a tweet or instagram with your favorite episode of The Realignment and why. Make sure on Twitter you tag Saagar (esaagar) Marshall (@makosloff) and the podcast account (@realignmentpod) on Instagram tag both Saagar (esaagar) and Marshall (marsh.kosloff)
Saagar and Marshall will then select the best 10 tweets/instagram posts. You have until 4pm EST tomorrow (February 20th) to make your post. Winners be will directly contacted by both Marshall and Saagar to get their invite.
May the odds be ever in your favor!
The Realignment’s Bookshop.org Storefront
As a reminder, we’ve created a Realignment podcast affiliate shop for guest books at bookshop.org. The shop features our guests’ books, including books from Michael Lind, Scott Galloway, Reeves Wiedeman, Ross Douthat, Matt Stoller, and Lisa Napoli.
We’ve built out three Bookshop lists:
1) Our list of the best books we read in 2020
2) All of the books we’ve read so far in 2021
3) Books written by Realignment podcast guests
If you purchase a book using our link, we get a 10% commission, a local bookseller gets supported, and you get an awesome book! Watch this space for new uploads and future lists by topic.
See you next week!
I love this podcast. I think you guys should look into getting Michael Hudson on the show. He’s a pretty interesting economist. He wrote a book on the history of debt jubilees and he has some pretty interesting ideas about debt. He has insight into why America is in decline and why China is booming. He also went to the Hudson institute. He worked for Wall Street hedge funds and he predicted the 2008 housing collapse
The Realignment is my favorite political podcast. I love the heterodox guests you bring on and views you share that challenge my worldview (with a comfy amount of confirmation) and the absence of partisan talking points (not always but nobody's perfect).
On the latest podcast Michael Doran's idea of Trumpist populist movement is an oxymoron. Populism is about policy, not personality, economics, not the culture war, and workers, not tax cuts (people can be anti immigration to help workers, but I doubt that motivates Trump or his base). The idea of an economic realignment where the republican orthodoxies were overturned and Republicans would suddenly advocate for unionization sounded nice in 2016, but anyone pretending that happened as of 2021 is not a serious person. You've had countless episodes addressing this about whether populism was more than just Trump (I wish it wasn't, but you have to be realistic about these things), but still many of the guests go about advocating imagination politics unchallenged. How can we get out of the Culture War? How can we raise the issue salience of economic issues in American politics?
I would love hear Thomas Frank as a guest to talk about this topic.