Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream

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The Farm on the Roof: What Brooklyn Grange Taught Us About Entrepreneurship, Community, and Growing a Sustainable Business

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Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics

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Taming the Octopus: The Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation

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Greedy Bastards

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Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy

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When the New Deal Came to Town: A Snapshot of a Place and Time with Lessons for Today

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The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit

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The Great Crash 1929

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A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City

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The Wealth of a Nation: A History of Trade Politics in America

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Red Ink: Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget

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Promised Land: How the Rise of the Middle Class Transformed America, 1929-1968

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Taxing Wars: The American Way of War Finance and the Decline of Democracy

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The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball

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City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York

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McIlhenny's Gold: How a Louisiana Family Built the Tabasco Empire

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Bought and Paid For: The Unholy Alliance Between Barack Obama and Wall Street

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The Dean: The Best Seat in the House

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Our Declaration: A Reading of Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality

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The Public Option: How to Expand Freedom, Increase Opportunity, and Promote Equality

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The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution

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The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business

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The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics

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Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era

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Takeover: How a Conservative Student Club Captured the Supreme Court

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Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality Since 1700

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Why Cities Lose: The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide

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The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart

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The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again

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Simpler: The Future of Government

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Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

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Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence

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America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything

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Zero To One by Peter Thiel; Blake Masters - Book Summary: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

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How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood

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Hide Your Children: Exposing Marxists Behind the Attack on America's Kids

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It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

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Oneness vs. the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom

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The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

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Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

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My Side of the River: A Memoir

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The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All

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Controversial Essays

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Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays

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Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation

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Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda

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Ever Wonder Why?: And Other Controversial Essays

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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

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Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America

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Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream

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Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens

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Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

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The End of Policing

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The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

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San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities

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The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture

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Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America

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Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell

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The Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City

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Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America

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Steven Higashide, "Better Buses, Better Cities : How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit" (Island Press, 2019): Higashide shows us what a successful bus system looks like with real-world stories of reform—such as Houston redrawing its bus network overnight,

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The Rise of "Legal Fraud" | Bethany McLean

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The End of 'The Everything Bubble': This week, the S&P 500 entered what analysts refer to as a bear market. The index has plunged around 22 percent from its most recent peak in January. Many growth stocks and crypto assets have crashed double or triple that amount. New home sales declined 17 percent in April, causing some analysts to argue that the housing market has peaked. And, in response to rising inflation, the Federal Reserve just approved its largest interest rate increase since 1994, meaning asset prices could dip even lower. To understand what’s happening in the stock market right now, you have to understand the era that preceded it. Rana Foroohar is a columnist at The Financial Times, and the author of several books on the economy including “Makers and Takers” and “Don’t Be Evil.” Her view is that a decade-plus of loose monetary policy has been the economic equivalent of a “sugar high,” which kept the prices of stocks, housing and other assets going up and up and up, even a

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The Big Break with Ben Terris

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Jefferson Cowie, "Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power" (Basic Books, 2022): An interview with Jefferson Cowie

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418 | Bethany McLean: How COVID Exposed a Hollowed-Out and Sickly America: Bethany McLean, co-author of The Big Fail: and co-host of the Capitalisn't podcast, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Bethany discuss how her exploration of COVID America fits into the story of her previous exposés, The Smartest Guys in the Room and All the Devils Are Here, the impact of snarled supply chains, school closures, and poorly evaluated mask mandates, and why she believes capitalism has jumped the rails in the 21st century.

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301 | Rana Foroohar: The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World: Rana Foroohar, author of Homecoming: The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World and Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business, joins The Realignment to discuss why she believes the post-COVID age of economic localization will put an end to 50 years of neoliberal globalization, how the left and right are responding to this new paradigm, and what a more resilient and regionally-focused America will look like.

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Jacob Mchangama, "Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media" (Basic Books, 2022): An interview with Jacob Mchangama

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Simon Sharpe, "Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change" (Cambridge UP, 2023): An interview with Simon Sharpe

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In LiDAR We Trust: This week with talk with guest Geoff Manaugh about his published piece in the NYT about driverless car technology

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Mimetic Desire | The "Things Hidden..." Series | Episode 1 (WiM231)

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Private Equity’s Impact on the Economy — with Gretchen Morgenson

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Linsey McGoey, “No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy” (Verso, 2015): In No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy (Verso Books, 2015), Linsey McGoey proposes a new way of discussing philanthropy and, in doing so, revives associated historical debates often overlooked at present: fr...

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Michael Lewis On How Behavioural Economics Changed The World: Michael Lewis is one of the most successful non-fiction authors alive. He has been acclaimed as a genius by Malcolm Gladwell and as the best current writer in America by Tom Wolfe. In a series of titles that have sold 9 million copies worldwid...

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Episode 214: Trains, Buses, People: Christof Spieler joins the podcast for the fourth time!

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Costco

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Prof. Juliet Schor | 4-day workweek, consumerism and the climate crisis

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Against the Rules Presents: Michael Lewis in Conversation with Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg: Michael Lewis interviews the Co-Founders of Pushkin Industries, Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg, as part of Dell Technologies Small Business Podference,

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Unscripted by James B Stewart and Rachel Abrams: Unscripted by James B Stewart and Rachel Abrams

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Dirk Ehnts, "Modern Monetary Theory and European Macroeconomics" (Routledge, 2016): An interview with Dirk Ehnts

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NAACP and Climate Justice: The NAACP has created comprehensive tools that cities can learn from and leverage in service of climate justice. We interview Jacqui Patterson, Senior Director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice program. Having run the program since its inception in 2009, Jacqui shares examples of cities that have used some of their tools as well as an inspiring vision of a climate justice community.

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The Man Who Fed the World: The story of the Norman Borlaug, the man behind the Green Revolution

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Yuval Levin on A Time to Build: Yuval Levin talks about his book A Time to Build with host Russ Roberts. He argues that U.S. institutions are less trustworthy than they have been in the past. People no longer see institutions as something that molds them and has norms to which they conform. Instead, they view the institution as a platform to gain attention and notoriety. This in turn means that institutions are increasingly unable to perform their primary function as they once did. The conversation concludes with some ideas for how individuals might change how they see their roles within institutions and life as a way of working together in common purpose.

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300 | Thomas E. Ricks: How the Civil Rights Movement Waged a "Good War": Thomas E. Ricks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 and military histories including The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, and Making the Corps, joins The Realignment to analyze the success of the civil rights movements through the lens of military strategy and its lessons for nonviolent movements today, revisits his critique of American generalship as the profession comes under political scrutiny, and assesses the state of the U.S. military as it transitions from the War on Terror to the era of great power competition.

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236. Fernanda Pirie on The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World: Rulers throughout history have used laws to impose order. But laws were not simply instruments of power and social control. They also offered ordinary people a way to express their diverse visions for a better world. The variety of the world’s laws...

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34: FANCY BEAR GOES PHISHING: Scott Shapiro

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Inflation Does More Than Raise Prices. It Destroys Governments.: “One can usually pretend that there is a logic to the distribution of wealth — that behind a person’s prosperity lies some rational basis, whether it is that person’s hard work, skill and farsightedness or some ancestor’s,” writes J. Bradford DeLong. “Inflation — even moderate inflation — strips the mask.” DeLong is an economic historian at the University of California, Berkeley, a former deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury and the author of “Slouching Towards Utopia” — a new book about the wave of economic growth that transformed the world in the 20th century. In it, he argues, among other things, that inflation isn’t just economically damaging; it’s one of the most destabilizing, destructive forces in all of politics. Left unchecked, it has the power to swing elections, erode the foundations of core social institutions and usher in wholesale changes in political and economic regimes. [You can listen to this epi

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Elinor Ostrom, Polycentric Governance, and Policing with Vlad Tarko: Today's guest is Vlad Tarko of Dickinson College. We discuss the life and work of Elinor Ostrom, the 2009 winner of the Nobel Prize in economics. Vlad is the author of Elinor Ostrom: An intellectual biography. We discuss Elinor Ostrom's work on...

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The Editors Take a MasterClass: Anna Wintour Edition

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Randal Marlin, “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion” (Broadview Press, 2013): It’s been 100 years since the start of the First World War, a conflict that cost millions of lives. In his recently revised book, Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion (2013), Randal Marlin writes that Britain pioneered propaganda techniques to sell ...