Marshall here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

The Realignment spends a lot of time focused on the picture. The more however you look at

the specific challenges facing the country, violence, feminist integration, addiction, alienation,

despair, it becomes clear that we need to zoom in as close as possible on this phenomenon.

Moving beyond comfortable, tidy narratives. In this case, the author Seth DiCaplan has a new book out

focused on why neighborhoods in America are specifically in trouble. Whether they're rich,

poor, rural, or urban, his new book is fragile neighborhoods, preparing American society,

one zip code at a time. I really enjoy this conversation and really recommend his book as well too.

Because Seth is, by background focused on the foreign policy space, I'm always interested in

when folks who come from that background move back from the international sphere and focus in on

the country back at home. For we dive into our conversation, though a reminder that Saga and I

are now publishing bi-weekly recap supercast AMA episodes. You can listen to last Sunday's episode,

focused on Israel, Hamas, and Gaza, and go to realignment.supercast.com to hear the full version.

Keep the questions coming. You can either subscribe with supercast to get the full version and

leave your questions there or you can email us at realignmentpodatgmail.com. Hope you all enjoy

the conversation. Seth Kaplan, welcome to the realignment.

Thrilled to be here. Thank you for having me, Marshall.

Yeah, I'm glad to chat with you. So you're actually the perfect guest for me because listeners know

most of my day-to-day work is focused on the foreign policy space. I work at the Hudson Institute.

I'm at the Clements Center. I'm at UT focused on national security issues. Your day job focuses

on foreign policy. You've done a lot of work focused on Libya, Nigeria, Ukraine. But obviously with

this book, fragile neighborhoods, and this podcast for me, we both have a deep interest in what's

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