477 | Nellie Bowles: Waking Up the Morning After the 2020 Revolution

The Realignment

Technology, News Commentary, National Security, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, News, Public Policy, Economics, Politics, Saager Enjeti, U.s. Politics, Policy

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Nellie Bowles, writer, former New York Times reporter, and author of Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Nellie discuss why some of the most educated people in America lost their minds in 2020, what she learned investigating and reporting on Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) and Antifa protests in Portland, and why 2020 reckoning inspired moves like abolishing the SAT, defunding the police, and drug decriminalization are running out of steam.

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0:00.0	Marshall here.
0:01.0	Welcome back to the realignment.
0:03.0	Hey everyone, welcome back to the show.
0:10.0	Today's guest is the Free Presses, Nellie Bowles.
0:13.0	She has a new book out.
0:13.8	It's called Morning After the Revolution.
0:16.2	Dispatches from the wrong side of history.
0:19.3	Nellie was famously a New York Times reporter
0:21.6	until the 2020 period where she left after her ideology
0:25.3	clearly was in sync with the majority opinion of that paper and then went on to
0:29.7	found the free press with her wife Barry Weiss.
0:33.0	Two of them obviously curate one of the country's
0:35.8	leading kind of responses to the center left
0:39.9	New York Times Washington Post P, P.O.V.
0:42.6	on political questions.
0:43.9	This book, though, is really interesting to me
0:45.9	because it kind of circles into one of my favorite topics.
0:49.4	We were assured in a bunch of ways
0:51.5	that the 20-20 period would change so many different things about the country
0:54.8	and Nellie's book and this conversation are really about focusing on how much did the country
0:59.2	change which new ideas were actually good and what was kind of left in the dustbin of history.
1:04.4	So hope you all enjoy this conversation and a huge thank you to the foundation for American
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