Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

There's multiple books. A great one of them is Generation Kill if you want to go and read it.

There are multiple books. Great one of them is Generation Kill if you want to go and read it.

one of my favorite books Generation Kill was literally from a guy there. It's like with this level of press access. It's like zero. It's absolutely ridiculous

21st century globalization, in other words, may have crested and begun to recede before Trump took office.

21st century globalization, in other words, may have crested and begun to recede before Trump took office.

21st century globalization, in other words, may have crested and begun to recede before Trump took office.

I would highly recommend from Black Jacks to Briefcases, a book on the history of union avoidance or a lot of writing from John Logan.

I would highly recommend from Black Jacks to Briefcases, a book on the history of union avoidance

I would highly recommend from Black Jacks to Briefcases, a book on the history of union avoidance or a lot of writing from John Logan.

In addition he's also author of a great book called Monopolize Chain of Title.

Elbridge Colby, who is booked for the show, who can dig into all of this.

Elbridge Colby's a principal at the Marathon Initiative and he's the author of a new book, The Strategy of Denial.

I think he's right but I think it's actually unwise in the sense that I actually think he's correct that we should and almost invariably would come to Taiwan's defense.

The question is more whether we'd be effective but the thing is not to, you know, either way I think about it's like we're kind of poking the dragon right now.

I think a war is very plausible China has the will to take over Taiwan it has increasingly has a way and it may have a sense of urgency about it.

If we don't have a military denial and I would just say Saagar it's not so much nuclear Japan would not be the worst outcome.

I think the worst outcome is is well over 50 of global GDP that's under China's control that he probably uses the Yuan that follows Chinese regulations that is the gatekeeper for all American companies indirect or directly and we're all going to be working for that right.

I think he's right but I think it's actually unwise in the sense that I actually think he's correct that we should and almost invariably would come to Taiwan's defense.

The question is more whether we'd be effective but the thing is not to you know either way I think about it's like we're kind of poking the dragon right now.

I think we should maintain the sort of formal policy almost like the fiction of strategic ambiguity which is a kind of decades old policy that allows us to kind of interact with the Chinese.

But we should very clearly understand that we would come to Taiwan's defense but the key there is actually to resource it and have the prioritization of focus.

And you mentioned Europe, we're not doing that right now we're sending 40 billion dollars to Europe basically and there's almost nothing to show forward in the Asian Pacific and the situation is grave and it's deteriorating.

Apple which forced out my friend Antonio Garcia Martinez based upon some things he wrote in his book A Decade Ago of which Apple was aware of it

They forced out my friend Antonio Garcia Martinez based upon some things he wrote in his book A Decade Ago, of which Apple was aware of.

Apple which forced out my friend Antonio Garcia Martinez based upon some things he wrote in his book A Decade Ago of which Apple was aware of.

I felt like there are a million like postmortem campaign books and profiles and very few people actually know who Bernie Sanders is as famous and as important and as influential as he is and I really feel like that was an important story to tell who is Bernie Sanders what drives him what makes him tick and kind of give people an actual flavor for this person who really did change the course of history

One of the quotes that has gotten some attention was the Obama quote where uh Bernie Obama and I the three of us were in a room together alone in 2018 and Bernie had this meeting with Obama to be like you know I'm thinking about it what do you think he really hadn't decided yet and it was this it was this intriguing moment that you have these two guys both of whom by the way have big egos and in a room together having this conversation and finally Obama kind of turns to Bernie and is like Bernie you're an you're an old testament prophet you like give us a moral voice but prophets don't get to be king and are you willing to like make the changes necessary are you willing to kind of be a broader figure are you willing to reach out to the the small business conservative democrat in the south to be part of your thing are you willing to are you if you want to lead the democratic party are you willing to put on the jersey and that that pressure really did exist on Bernie and he really kind of pushed it aside at every angle

There's the story in the book which is actually pretty remarkable where uh the the Washington Post reports that uh the Russians are supporting Bernie's campaign and like he's being asked about it now here's the thing there's a bunch of like classified intel that Bernie knows because he's a senator also another person had told us they were doing reporting on some some of this and we're like that's not what the briefing said the briefing said right this other the briefing basically said Russia just wants to sow discord discord and and part of that discord has been kind of trolling online and there was some Bernie was subject of some of the Bernie trolls were part of that discord is what which is very different than supporting Bernie right and then he gets asked about it on the tarmac and look he has a moment where he like points at a reporter and says like Washington Post like great friends or something like and it was like it was like there was this reaction among journalists some of whom I really do respect and think are good journalists but they were like this was like the end of the world and and and I was sitting there like I you know I'm trying to be like I have to be somewhat empathetic to this and we do have to kind of work with these people but at the same time it's like that's not really that's like your your biggest thing that Bernie was like Washington Post great friends right there was an incredible freak out over that

There was another media story that I think is also really interesting and important something else that we covered which was the whole Elizabeth Warren accusing Bernie of you know telling her privately that she couldn't win because she's a woman right um and I think that you know first of all you make the case look the only people in the room were Elizabeth Warren Bernie Sanders and Warren's husband um and you know these news outlets were reporting they had like three or four sources for this and you're like there's there were only three people in the room and obviously one of them is denying your reporting so what are you doing here but you also make the case that you know there were people on the campaign team who were fairly skeptical of Warren's abilities as a candidate I would say those people were more or less proved correct but Bernie was not one of them that he was consistently you guys don't underestimate she's very smart she's very you know capable on this I've known her for two decades I've like worked with her she's she's so smart and capable don't like don't underestimate her like and it was so weird to me the whole thing as I point out because look I've had hundreds of dinners with Bernie I've talked about every subject known to man and I just I know how he thinks about things and nothing ever even came close to what the Elizabeth Warren thing so it kind of shocked me in that like who knows what happened in the room but if he was going to say that we probably would like I know his opinion on it and it just was so far away from anything he ever said

I think there was a lot of moments in the campaign especially in April in the spring and the summer we were very much on this Bernie beach Trump narrative we put out polling we did tours of the Midwest we did things like the Fox News town hall where which was to kind of prove hey Bernie can go in front of these audiences and win them uh we were doing a bunch of things like that we were kind of constantly messaging but the thing we quickly realized was the only thing that's going to prove to voters that that Bernie can win is by winning which is why it was so important to kind of win Iowa win New Hampshire blowout Nevada the the principal theory the the problem we always saw was Joe Biden was kind of unique among other candidates and if we got to Super Tuesday one on one with Joe Biden it it was not going to be a good Super Tuesday because there's a certain segment of the party who is going to who's open to Bernie but if it's the two of them one on one they're going Biden because of Obama because oh you know he's been vice president he's tested he's the guy and that was a that was a brick wall we did run into I I don't know what could have been done other other than and I think this is important I talk in the book about kind of the moments Bernie pulled his punches on Biden yes and the reason if like the the problem isn't fixing the problem in February I talk about in the book kind of in September when the campaign staff was very much like you have to go at Biden and Bernie projected that notion

I felt like there are a million like postmortem campaign books and profiles and very few people actually know who Bernie Sanders is as famous and as important and as influential as he is and I really feel like that was an important story to tell who is Bernie Sanders what drives him what makes him tick and kind of give people an actual flavor for this person who really did change the course of history.

One of the quotes that has gotten some attention was the Obama quote where uh Bernie Obama and I the three of us were in a room together alone in 2018 and Bernie had this meeting with Obama to be like you know I'm thinking about it what do you think he really hadn't decided yet and it was this it was this intriguing moment that you have these two guys both of whom by the way have big egos and in a room together having this conversation and finally Obama kind of turns to Bernie and is like Bernie you're an you're an old testament prophet you like give us a moral voice but prophets don't get to be king and are you willing to like make the changes necessary are you willing to kind of be a broader figure are you willing to reach out to the the small business conservative democrat in the south to be part of your thing are you willing to are you if you want to lead the democratic party are you willing to put on the jersey and that that pressure really did exist on Bernie and he really kind of pushed it aside at every angle.

The Washington Post reports that uh the Russians are supporting Bernie's campaign and like he's being asked about it now here's the thing there's a bunch of like classified intel that Bernie knows because he's a senator also another person had told us they were doing reporting on some some of this and we're like that's not what the briefing said the briefing said right this other the briefing basically said Russia just wants to sow discord discord and and part of that discord has been kind of trolling online and there was some Bernie was subject of some of the Bernie trolls were part of that discord is what which is very different than supporting Bernie right and then he gets asked about it on the tarmac and look he has a moment where he like points at a reporter and says like Washington Post like great friends or something like and it was like it was like there was this reaction among journalists some of whom I really do respect and think are good journalists but they were like this was like the end of the world and and and I was sitting there like I you know I'm trying to be like I have to be somewhat empathetic to this and we do have to kind of work with these people but at the same time it's like that's not really that's like your your biggest thing that Bernie was like Washington Post great friends right there was an incredible freak out over that.

Elizabeth Warren accusing Bernie of you know telling her privately that she couldn't win because she's a woman right um and I think that you know first of all you make the case look the only people in the room were Elizabeth Warren Bernie Sanders and Warren's husband um and you know these news outlets were reporting they had like three or four sources for this and you're like there's there were only three people in the room and obviously one of them is denying your reporting so what are you doing here but you also make the case that you know there were people on the campaign team who were fairly skeptical of Warren's abilities as a candidate I would say those people were more or less proved correct but Bernie was not one of them that he was consistently you guys don't underestimate she's very smart she's very you know capable on this I've known her for two decades I've like worked with her she's she's so smart and capable don't like don't underestimate her like and it was so weird to me the whole thing as I point out because look I've had hundreds of dinners with Bernie I've talked about every subject known to man and I just I know how he thinks about things and nothing ever even came close to what the Elizabeth Warren thing so it kind of shocked me in that like who knows what happened in the room but if he was going to say that we probably would like I know his opinion on it and it just was so far away from anything he ever said.

The solving the Super Tuesday problem isn't a February problem it's a September right much issue and the question is do you just try to take out Biden then so he's not a factor on Super Tuesday because you don't have the same problems like if it's Bernie Buddha Jidge on Super Tuesday it's a very different formula.

I felt like there are a million like postmortem campaign books and profiles and very few people actually know who Bernie Sanders is as famous and as important and as influential as he is and I really feel like that was an important story to tell who is Bernie Sanders what drives him what makes him tick and kind of give people an actual flavor for this person who really did change the course of history.

One of the quotes that has gotten some attention was the Obama quote where uh Bernie Obama and I the three of us were in a room together alone in 2018 and Bernie had this meeting with Obama to be like you know I'm thinking about it what do you think he really hadn't decided yet and it was this it was this intriguing moment that you have these two guys both of whom by the way have big egos and in a room together having this conversation and finally Obama kind of turns to Bernie and is like Bernie you're an you're an old testament prophet you like give us a moral voice but prophets don't get to be king and are you willing to like make the changes necessary are you willing to kind of be a broader figure are you willing to reach out to the the small business conservative democrat in the south to be part of your thing are you willing to are you if you want to lead the democratic party are you willing to put on the jersey and that that pressure really did exist on Bernie and he really kind of pushed it aside at every angle.

The Washington Post reports that uh the Russians are supporting Bernie's campaign...there's a bunch of like classified intel that Bernie knows because he's a senator also another person had told us they were doing reporting on some some of this and we're like that's not what the briefing said the briefing said right this other the briefing basically said Russia just wants to sow discord discord and and part of that discord has been kind of trolling online and there was some Bernie was subject of some of the Bernie trolls were part of that discord is what which is very different than supporting Bernie right and then he gets asked about it on the tarmac and look he has a moment where he like points at a reporter and says like Washington Post like great friends or something like and it was like it was like there was this reaction among journalists some of whom I really do respect and think are good journalists but they were like this was like the end of the world and and and I was sitting there like I you know I'm trying to be like I have to be somewhat empathetic to this and we do have to kind of work with these people but at the same time it's like that's not really that's like your your biggest thing that Bernie was like Washington Post great friends right there was an incredible freak out over that.

Elizabeth Warren accusing Bernie of you know telling her privately that she couldn't win because she's a woman...and I think that you know first of all you make the case look the only people in the room were Elizabeth Warren Bernie Sanders and Warren's husband um and you know these news outlets were reporting they had like three or four sources for this and you're like there's there were only three people in the room and obviously one of them is denying your reporting so what are you doing here but you also make the case that you know there were people on the campaign team who were fairly skeptical of Warren's abilities as a candidate I would say those people were more or less proved correct but Bernie was not one of them that he was consistently you guys don't underestimate she's very smart she's very you know capable on this I've known her for two decades I've like worked with her she's she's so smart and capable don't like don't underestimate her like and it was so weird to me the whole thing as I point out because look I've had hundreds of dinners with Bernie I've talked about every subject known to man and I just I know how he thinks about things and nothing ever even came close to what the Elizabeth Warren thing so it kind of shocked me in that like who knows what happened in the room but if he was going to say that we probably would like I know his opinion on it and it just was so far away from anything he ever said.

The solving the Super Tuesday problem isn't a February problem it's a September right munch issue and the question is do you just try to take out Biden then so he's not a factor on Super Tuesday because you don't have the same problems like if it's Bernie Buddha Jidge on Super Tuesday it's a very different formula.

Dedicated is the thing we most need if we're going to start fixing this broken world

Dedicated is the thing we most need if we're going to start fixing this broken world

Dedicated is the thing we most need if we're going to start fixing this broken world

Flipped: How Georgia Turned Purple and Broke the Monopoly on Republican Power

...it took years of work from not just Stacey Abrams but an entire web of activists and organizers and volunteers and voters around her. It took flipping the Atlanta suburbs that were used to be Republican fortresses and it become younger and more diverse...

...and of course it took authentic messages, it took Democrats realizing that they should no longer run as Republican lights but they should run as liberals with progressive messages that helped energize and connect with a group of voters that felt disenchanted and disconnected with the electoral process and helped them, you know, capture hundreds of thousands of Democratic voters who never voted in mid-terms and even sometimes skipped presidential elections...

...Trump is partly to blame...his message of go vote in a rigged election in the January 2021 runoff did not exactly help Kelly Loeffler, David Perdue who were constantly trying to placate the president, appease him as he kept on moving the goalposts towards more and more vigorous demands that eventually getting the point where they he demanded that they block Joe Biden's electoral college victory in the US Senate...

...Donald Trump even came to Georgia not that long ago and said that he'd rather see Stacey Abrams as governor than Brian Kemp so this just shows you how this Trump-fueled dynamics are still shaping Georgia's election and really I think Georgia is the biggest test of Trump's influence in the entire nation.

Flipped: How Georgia Turned Purple and Broke the Monopoly on Republican Power.

It was not some overnight success. This is not really a fluke. This took years of work from not just Stacey Abrams but an entire web of activists and organizers and volunteers and voters around her.

It took flipping the Atlanta suburbs that were used to be Republican fortresses and it become younger and more diverse. They're no longer this monolithically, you know, white upper middle class stereotype that we think of when we think of suburbs of big cities.

And of course, it took authentic messages. It took Democrats realizing that they should no longer run as Republican lights, but they should run as liberals with progressive messages that helped energize and connect with a group of voters that felt disenchanted and disconnected with the electoral process and helped them, you know, capture hundreds of thousands of Democratic voters who never voted in mid-terms and even sometimes skipped presidential elections.

Georgia is the biggest test of Trump's influence in the entire nation.

Flipped: How Georgia Turned Purple and Broke the Monopoly on Republican Power.

It was not some overnight success. This is not really a fluke. This took years of work from not just Stacey Abrams but an entire web of activists and organizers and volunteers and voters around her. It took flipping the Atlanta suburbs that were used to be Republican fortresses and it become younger and more diverse.

It took authentic messages. It took Democrats realizing that they should no longer run as Republican lights but they should run as liberals uh with progressive messages that helped energize and connect with a group of voters that felt disenchanted and disconnected with the electoral process and helped them you know capture hundreds of thousands of Democratic voters who never voted in mid-terms and even sometimes skipped presidential elections.

Donald Trump even came to Georgia not that long ago and said that he'd rather see Stacey Abrams as governor than Brian Kemp.

Everybody go and buy the book. We're going to have a link down there in the description. Let's get it up to the top of the bestsellers chart.

I hear environmentalists saying this and saying that and then when I say well you know nuclear plants are very helpful about not putting out CO2 they have a very small footprint, I've worked around them for years they're very safe and they say no no no not nuclear anything but nuclear and I'm like wait a minute anything but nuclear global warming but not nuclear and that seems to be it has made me sad many times.

Chernobyl was a power plant built in the Soviet era it was built for dual purposes it was built to make weapon weapon grade plutonium and it was built to make power and it was run by people who did not have the kind of safety culture that plants in the West have and so Chernobyl was a big problem I mean it's actually the only power plant nuclear plant commercial one that ever killed anybody

Well you see when you you say okay we're going to build a wind turbine here well the wind turbine has a 20 to 30 capacity factor maybe if it's offshore it has a 40 capacity factor that means that it can make power 40 percent of the time if it's offshore 30 percent of it's onshore so what about the rest of the time?

Nuclear is a superior solution because we control it because we can you know we build it we can turn it on we can turn it off solar panels a nuclear plant can last 40 years maybe 60 years and they're getting license extensions in 60 years it has to have a big inspection and a lot of work done on it at 40 years but what I'm saying is it lasts a long time

I'm afraid I come at this from one of you of a chemist I've worked with a lot of dangerous stuff in my time and so the idea that nuclear waste is somehow extraordinarily dangerous I mean I acknowledge that people are fearful I do not mean to downgrade that but coming at it from a chemist I'm like are you kidding I mean look at it look at this way nuclear waste what they call nuclear waste is spent nuclear fuel it is a ceramic it is put into a cask which re-shields it from the outside and and and it stays there.

Well it's something that I've been sad about for a while because you know I hear environmentalists saying this and saying that and then when I say well you know nuclear plants are very helpful about not putting out CO2 they have a very small footprint, I've worked around them for years they're very safe and they say no no no not nuclear anything but nuclear and I'm like wait a minute anything but nuclear global warming but not nuclear and that seems to be it has made me sad many times.

Chernobyl was a power plant built in the Soviet era it was built for dual purposes it was built to make weapon weapon grade plutonium and it was built to make power and it was run by people who did not have the kind of safety culture that plants in the West have and so Chernobyl was a big problem I mean it's actually the only power plant nuclear plant commercial one that ever killed anybody I mean people say oh Three Mile Island well you know there was a release of some radiation and which quickly dissipated which gave people in the area like less than a x-rays worth uh anyway I guess what I'm trying to say is that the Western plants are very very well designed Chernobyl didn't even have a containment structure around it.

Nuclear is a superior solution because we control it because we can you know we build it we can turn it on we can turn it off solar panels a nuclear plant can last 40 years maybe 60 years and they're getting license extensions in 60 years it has to have a big inspection and a lot of work done on it at 40 years but what I'm saying is it lasts a long time wind turbines people are claiming they're lasting 25 years but I don't know so if you begin looking at the wind turbine only makes power 30% of the time and only the last 25 years and you begin putting that into the mix then the nuclear doesn't look so expensive.

I'm afraid I come at this from one of you of a chemist I've worked with a lot of dangerous stuff in my time and so the idea that nuclear waste is somehow extraordinarily dangerous I mean I acknowledge that people are fearful I do not mean to downgrade that but coming at it from a chemist I'm like are you kidding I mean look at it look at this way nuclear waste what they call nuclear waste is spent nuclear fuel it is a ceramic it is put into a cask which re-shields it from the outside and and and it stays there.

Look it's been very very helpful I encourage people to go and to read your book and to consume some more of the podcasts and others that you put out there and we really appreciate you joining us and helping educate us in the audience so thanks very much for thank you so much Meredith it's great to meet you our pleasure thank you Meredith

Well it's something that I've been sad about for a while because you know I hear environmentalists saying this and saying that and then when I say well you know nuclear plants are very helpful about not putting out CO2 they have a very small footprint, I've worked around them for years they're very safe and they say no no no not nuclear anything but nuclear and I'm like wait a minute anything but nuclear global warming but not nuclear and that seems to be it has made me sad many times.

Chernobyl was a power plant built in the Soviet era it was built for dual purposes it was built to make weapon weapon grade plutonium and it was built to make power and it was run by people who did not have the kind of safety culture that plants in the West have and so Chernobyl was a big problem I mean it's actually the only power plant nuclear plant commercial one that ever killed anybody I mean people say oh Three Mile Island well you know there was a release of some radiation and which quickly dissipated which gave people in the area like less than a x-rays worth uh anyway I guess what I'm trying to say is that the Western plants are very very well designed Chernobyl didn't even have a containment structure around it.

Well you see when you you say okay we're going to build a wind turbine here well the wind turbine has a 20 to 30 capacity factor maybe if it's offshore it has a 40 capacity factor that means that it can make power 40 percent of the time if it's offshore 30 percent of it's onshore so what about the rest of the time? And of course the wind turbine makes power when the wind blows as opposed to when a operator in the control room says the grid needs power gets them going over their wind turbine and nobody can turn the wind on so that doesn't happen.

Nuclear is a superior solution because we control it because we can you know we build it we can turn it on we can turn it off solar panels a nuclear plant can last 40 years maybe 60 years and they're getting license extensions in 60 years it has to have a big inspection and a lot of work done on it at 40 years but what I'm saying is it lasts a long time wind turbines people are claiming they're lasting 25 years but I don't know so if you begin looking at the wind turbine only makes power 30% of the time and only the last 25 years and you begin putting that into the mix then the nuclear doesn't look so expensive.

I'm afraid I come at this from one of you of a chemist I've worked with a lot of dangerous stuff in my time and so the idea that nuclear waste is somehow extraordinarily dangerous I mean I acknowledge that people are fearful I do not mean to downgrade that but coming at it from a chemist I'm like are you kidding I mean look at it look at this way nuclear waste what they call nuclear waste is spent nuclear fuel it is a ceramic it is put into a cask which re-shields it from the outside and and and it stays there.

I've been thinking a lot about this in graduate school we read this great paper up called The Nuclear Taboo it was written by a woman named Nina Tannenwald

The main story in the book is a five-year campaign that I helped to lead among industrial laundry workers in Phoenix, Arizona in the early 2000s where I worked for kind of a small, scrappy organizing union unite, an offshoot of the international ladies' garment workers union.

It is the kind of groundswell that I didn't know that I would see in my lifetime as a union organizer.

It's one of the most incredible campaigns I can imagine and part of what's incredible about it is that workers are it's really an organically worker led campaign.

I think our challenge as organizers at this point is to do what we can to help facilitate that organic growth and momentum right and not try to contain it in any way to allow it to just sort of burn across the country as the kind of wildfire that it is.

The book is On the Line, a story of class solidarity and two women's epic fight to build a union by Daisy Pitkin.

The main story in the book is a five-year campaign that I helped to lead among industrial laundry workers in Phoenix, Arizona in the early 2000s where I worked for kind of a small, scrappy organizing union unite, an offshoot of the international ladies' garment workers union.

And we underwent an experiment in Phoenix which was at the time a deep red city in a deep red state to see if we could organize mostly immigrant workers in these industrial laundry factories that are in every city across the country but kind of go unnoticed or they're largely invisible.

And it took us five years to get to majority union density in those factories and it's the story of what it took and really of one of the main worker leaders there, Alma who's one of the gutsyest worker leaders I've ever met who really organized her factory and the others around her across Phoenix.

I think you know we open the segment by talking about a lot of the kind of brown swell of organizing that we're seeing now. Amazon workers are organizing Starbucks workers miraculously are standing up and organizing inside that multi-billion dollar corporation despite fierce union busting.

I hope that the book will find its way to readers who might not normally pick up a book about labor and it will give some context for those headlines that people are seeing on a daily basis. They'll understand not only why workers are organizing but why it's so difficult to organize and what it is that they're up against.

The main story in the book, though as you said it has multiple parts, but the main story in the book is a five-year campaign that I helped to lead among industrial laundry workers in Phoenix, Arizona in the early 2000s where I worked for kind of a small, scrappy organizing union unite, an offshoot of the international ladies' garment workers union.

The main lesson is that labor law in this country is broken. It makes it very difficult to organize unions even when a strong majority of workers in a workplace want to have a union.

Workers who work in industrial laundries actually they sort and cleanse and iron and pack tens of thousands of pounds of linens from hospitals and also from restaurants and hotels every day.

I hope that the book will find its way to readers who might not normally pick up a book about labor and it will give some context for those headlines that people are seeing on a daily basis. They'll understand not only why workers are organizing but why it's so difficult to organize and what it is that they're up against.

I think we're at a turning point and I say that you know I know that there's a risk of just sort of sounding overly optimistic but I really am optimistic the Starbucks workers campaign in particular it is the kind of groundswell that I didn't know that I would see in my lifetime as a union organizer.

I've got a great interview today I'm speaking of Christopher Mims he's a technology columnist the Wall Street Journal he's also authored Arriving Today from Factory to Front Door why everything has changed but how and what we buy.

The book is called Arriving Today it's about how everything gets from the factory to the front door also if you don't have the patience for a 300 page book it's also now a documentary on YouTube and on WSJ.com called Chain Reaction.

The book is called Arriving Today it's about how everything gets from the factory to the front door also if you don't have the patience for a 300 page book it's also now a documentary on youtube and on wsj.com called chain reaction it's this hour-long documentary we send producers all over the world and it gives you a really good visual feeling and I think a sense of empathy for the workers involved in these supply chains that you know I couldn't even capture in a book so you know go check out the documentary to start with it's chain reaction and uh it's on wsj.com and on youtube

So supply chain, you know, the term originated in the military because it was just how you kept an army supplied, of course, in our globalized economy supply chains are how we get everything that we buy, everything we consume.

Globalization is definitely not over but I think it's the right question to ask. I think the question everybody who is a supply chain professional is trying to answer is how do we continue to leverage what's good about globalization which is that you know when different regions of the world specialize in certain things it can lead to rapid innovation.

For the last 50 years, what companies have been trying to do is how do we just squeeze all the cost out of our supply chain that we possibly can and so you know let's consolidate to one big factory wherever wages are lowest or where that industry is concentrated so usually somewhere in Asia.

So the book is called Arriving Today, it's about how everything gets from the factory to the front door also if you don't have the patience for a 300 page book it's also now a documentary on YouTube and on WSJ.com called Chain Reaction it's this hour-long documentary we send producers all over the world and it gives you a really good visual feeling and I think a sense of empathy for the workers involved in these supply chains that you know I couldn't even capture in a book.

James maldune author of the forthcoming book Platform Socialism how to reclaim our digital future from big tech wrote recently in jackman magazine web three is unlikely to meaningfully redistribute value because it doesn't challenge the fundamental drive to commodification that now dominates the web

James maldune author of the forthcoming book Platform Socialism how to reclaim our digital future from big tech wrote recently in jackman magazine web three is unlikely to meaningfully redistribute value because it doesn't challenge the fundamental drive to commodification that now dominates the web

James maldune author of the forthcoming book Platform Socialism how to reclaim our digital future from big tech wrote recently in jackman magazine web three is unlikely to meaningfully redistribute value because it doesn't challenge the fundamental drive to commodification that now dominates the web

Hitler recognized Poland but called for concessions. Putin absurdly claims that Ukraine is not a state.

Hitler recognized Poland but called for concessions...Putin absurdly claims Ukraine is not a state...Putin violates every international law there is...Hitler did not use chemical weapons...Putin is preparing to do so.

Hitler recognized Poland but called for concessions... Putin absurdly claims Ukraine is not a state...

We have 11 trillion dollars of economic activity in my district with so much of rural America, black and brown communities, they aren't participating in modern wealth generation.

They're going to be 25 million digital jobs, nine of the 10 richest companies are tech companies, a lot of the billionaires are tech billionaires, we've got to get digital economic opportunity into rural America into the heartland like Intel going to Ohio.

And many of these jobs are manufacturing, retail, construction jobs and most of them don't require a college degree.

It's absolutely not learn to code, the book starts with the story of Alex who is making refrigerators and dishwashers and has some technology that he's grasped to make them smart.

But the reality is actually it's looking at all you they talk about no-code, low-code which means that these new technology jobs don't require much coding, it's just understanding basic technology to do make factory, retail, and these kind of occupations.

We have 11 trillion dollars of economic activity in my district with so much of rural America, Black and brown communities, they aren't participating in modern wealth generation.

They're going to be 25 million digital jobs, nine of the 10 richest companies are tech companies, a lot of the billionaires are tech billionaires, we've got to get digital economic opportunity into rural America into the heartland like Intel going to Ohio.

And most of them don't require a college degree and so it's about decentralizing economic opportunity in this country and not concentrating it in the cost.

First of all, it's absolutely not 'learn to code'.

The book starts with the story of Alex who is making refrigerators and dishwashers and has some technology that he's grasped to make them smart, but the reality is actually it's looking at all, they talk about no-code, low-code, which means that these new technology jobs don't require much coding, it's just understanding basic technology to do, make factory, retail and these kind of occupations.

We have 11 trillion dollars of economic activity in my district with so much of rural America, Black and brown communities, they aren't participating in modern wealth generation.

They're going to be 25 million digital jobs, nine of the 10 richest companies are tech companies, a lot of the billionaires are tech billionaires, we've got to get digital economic opportunity into rural America into the heartland.

It's about decentralizing economic opportunity in this country and not concentrating it in the coast.

It's absolutely not learn to code...the book starts with the story of Alex who is making refrigerators and dishwashers and has some technology that he's grasped to make them smart.

But the reality is actually it's looking at all you they talk about no code, low code, which means that these new technology jobs don't require much coding it's just understanding basic technology to do, make factory retail and these kind of occupations.

it actually caused me to buy a book it's called Appeasement chamberlain hitler churchill and the road to war by tim bovier

it actually caused me to buy a book it's called Appeasement chamberlain hitler churchill and the road to war by tim bovier

it's called Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill and the Road to War by Tim Bouverie

I can't recommend your book, Race Matters Enough.

I can't recommend your book, Race Matters Enough.

I can't recommend your book, Race Matters Enough.

there's actually a book out called Virtue Hoarders that's really great talks about exactly that we need to read this we should interview this one I got a book but anyway

there's actually a book out called Virtue Hoarders that's really great talks about exactly that we need to read this we should interview this one I got a book but anyway

there's actually a book out called Virtue Hoarders that's really great talks about exactly that we need to read this we should interview this one I got a book but anyway I mean I think it's a good way of understanding the sort of politics there where it's all about let me display to you what a good person I am

One of my favorite human beings and one of the most interesting thinkers I think in American life today, Adolf Reed Jr. is going to join us to talk about his new book, The South, which is wonderful and I highly recommend.

It's called the South, Jim Crow and its Afterlives...

I didn't get any special insight right... I just inherited the family business.

The first thing that was was normal life right... there was normal life and people formed aspirations and tried to pursue them... within the context that assumed that the hegemonic political and economic order right.

A focus on the past must not sidestep the need to confront what actually reproduces inequality in the present.

I would say it's not exactly...well, the chronology is quite different because I actually started working on this around the beginning of the century around 2002 or 2003...after discussions with a couple of friends we both have roots in the deep south...one about a decade younger than I, one about seven years older and our recollections around a turn of the current century that our rough age cohort was going to be the last in the United States with any living recollections of what life under Jim Crow was like.

...the sense that you know the country is founded on slavery, the country is founded on racism...and I think one of the problems that's both a political problem and an interpretive problem is a shift from seeing racial inequality as being rooted in institutions and institutional practices...to seeing it as all about the attitude and so that racism becomes the answer to the question of racial inequality.

...the way that people talk about slavery now...you could say this about Jim Crow era and sharecropping and whatever else...is at the point of slavery was to produce white supremacy, not to produce cotton, rice and tobacco.

...people now like to talk about slavery or Jim Crow like it was white people's permanent sadistic camp...but the fact is that there was normal life and people formed aspirations and tried to pursue them within the context that assumed that the hegemonic political and economic order.

...the street...the closest street or block that intersected with the block that my family lived on it was named after a fellow named General Ogden...and until I was well into adulthood, well into my 30s, I had no idea who this General Ogden guy was...and I found out during a moment of controversy...but General Ogden it turns out was the commander of the Crescent City White League that led an armed insurrection against the reconstruction government and its metropolitan police force in 1874.

the sense that you know the country is founded on slavery the country is founded on racism and i think one of the problems that's both a political problem and an interpretive problem is a shift uh from seeing um racial inequality is being rooted in institutions and institutional practices for instance like slavery as a labor system right that segregation or Jim Crow as a complex of of of institutions structures laws uh and other constraints to seeing it as all about the attitude

the way that people talk about slavery now and you could say this about Jim Crow era and sharecropping and and whatever else is at the point of slavery was to produce white supremacy right not to produce cotton rice uh and and and and tobacco

i didn't start writing this to write a book i mean i just started writing it to write it i had no idea where it was going and i very quickly wrote myself into that 15 000 word no person's land which was too long for an article and too short for a book but but but my idea was just to sort of leave some sort of record about what concrete quotidian life was like uh in the Jim Crow order and what the order was itself where it came from what what but what its historical sources and boundaries were right

the high period of um of neoliberal anti-racism as as bursting forth around 2015 2016 when when all of a sudden um you know political anti-racism uh became a raid publicly and aggressively against uh social democratic politics in the US

i didn't get any special insight right i mean i've often said i know i've said this only partly just about obama but that it can be better uh more important to be in the right place at the right time keep your eyes open then to be smart