Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: <a href="https://realignment.supercast.com/">https://realignment.supercast.com/.</a> REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: <a href="https://therealignment.substack.com/">https://therealignment.substack.com/</a> PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: <a href="https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment">https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment</a> Email us at: realignmentpod@gmail.com Lyle Jeremy Rubin, author of Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body: A Marine's Unbecoming, joins The Realignment to discuss how his time as a Marine officer in Afghanistan led him to re-evaluate his perspectives on American hegemony, capitalism, and his neoconservative political beliefs. He also discusses how the debates within the American left about the proper response to the war in Ukraine and Russian and Chinese imperial projects.

307 | Saagar & Marshall: Elon Musk's Twitter Buy & the Death of Social Media + Pre-Midterm Predictions

The United States is in the midst of a dramatic political realignment with shifting views on national security, economics, technology, and the role of government in our lives. Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff explore this with thinkers, policymakers, and more.