Marshall here. Welcome back to The Realignment.

Before we dive into today's episode, a quick reminder that Sogrenai are publishing a special,

ask me anything episode focused on everyone's questions around.

Israel, Gaza, Hamas, etc. We're going to record it around 1pm Eastern time. So if you are a

supercast subscriber, you can go to realignment.supercast.com and post the questions or comments

throughout there. Or if you're not a subscriber yet, you can email us at realignmentpod.com.

Got some great responses so far, so looking forward to discussing them later today, and then of

course, publishing that episode on Sunday. On to the episode. My guest today is the American

Enterprise Institutes, James Pathikukis. He has a new book out, The Conservative Futurist,

how to create the sci-fi world we were promised. Really interesting book, and it serves as a real

rebuttal to much of the doom and gloom pessimism, the too often impacts this space. We cover where

the optimistic vision that promulgated in the 50s and 60s went wrong, the opportunities James sees

in space energy and the world around us, and of course what a politics oriented around progress

and technological accomplishment would actually look like. A huge thank you to the foundation for

American Innovation, the support and work of this podcast, this episode is especially pertinent

to FAS work, so I recommend that anyone interested be sure to check in on what we are building

out in DC and across Silicon Valley. Hope you all enjoy the conversation.

James Pathikukis, welcome to the realignment. Thanks so much for having me on.

Yeah, I'm really glad to chat with you. Your book has been perfectly timed for me because I've

been publishing a lot of episodes with tech critics. I think it's important to engage with critics,

but at a certain point, I think it's important that I assert my actual point of view around progress

and technology, all of these are good, so thank you for that to keep me from being a hack.

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