The Realignment: Next Steps for the Show, Audience Q&A, and Robinhood Populism
Audience suggestions, Realignment interviews, show notes, and more
Thanks for checking out our Substack!
If you’re new, smash subscribe to get future issues delivered to your inbox every Friday afternoon.
The next few weeks are going to be really exciting for the show. Thanks to everyone who wrote in with guest suggestions.
Here’s what we’d like to know from you all going forward:
If you haven’t written in yet, please let us know who you’d like us to book for the show.
What topics should the show cover? Especially post-GameStop, we’ve had a blast looking at big topics through the Realignment lens.
Along with the long-promised mugs, we’re also set to launch subscriber-only content via Supercast. We’d love to hear what premium content you all would be interested in. Zoom/community hangouts? Bonus episodes? Just want to support the show? We’re open to suggestions!
Comment below, reply to this email, or email us at realignmentpod@gmail.com
Welcome Back to The Realignment
This week, we aired two episodes: Derek Thompson, staff writer at The Atlantic and our monthly Realignment Q&A episode.
Spoiler from Q&A episode: One of the most frequently asked questions we get is “what’s The Realignment’s theme song?”
It’s Perezi by Isaac Joel.
Ep. 97 Q&A: Marijuana Legalization, the New Leadership Class, Filibuster 101, & the Origin of The Realignment Theme Song
[Audio]
Show Notes by Seth Lachman (Subscribe to his linked Substack)
Ep. 96: Derek Thompson, Robinhood Populism, Coastal Cities in Trouble, & Governing a Fractured America
[Audio] [Video]
You can purchase Derek’s book, Hit Makers: How to Succeed in an Age of Distraction, at our Bookshop.
Show Notes by Seth Lachman
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!
Let us know what you think about this, or any week’s, episodes. Please share it with anyone who’d enjoy the podcast.
Suggestions for guests: Corey Robin, Michael Sandel (he appeared in a segment on Rising, but it would be great to hear a more in depth conversation on his latest book, and his political philosophy in general), Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan). It would be interesting to hear you engage with someone of the "government is an archaic institution, tech will liberate us" camp. Don't have anyone in mind, but someone who could engage the topic in a substantive way.
I think you should talk with Ashely Jardina and Eric Kaufman who wrote White Identity Politics and Whiteshift: The Future of White Majorities respectively. The second book in particular changed my views on what is happening in American politics, and was for me when I realized that its more culture than economics. I used to be much more in Krystal's thinking before this. If anyone asks me what is going on in American politics, I would recommend these books first before everything else including New Class War.