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When Every Child Is a Choice

As a normal life becomes more difficult for middle class parents to acquire, optimizing a child’s upbringing for educational and career success has become the norm—but at great expense. Is there another way?

Ginevra Davis Posted on June 29, 2023July 6, 2023

The Answer Is Better Gangs

As long as criminal enterprises offer the best gangs around, kids will continue to enter them. The question is where the better gangs could be.

Seth Largo Posted on June 22, 2023July 5, 2023

PALLADIUM 10: Cultural Excellence

Master your craft. Excellence is timeless. PALLADIUM 10: Cultural Excellence, our summer print edition, is now available, featuring exclusive interviews and custom artwork.

Palladium Editors Posted on June 7, 2023March 20, 2025

“At the Edge of Life” With Pietro Boselli

Pietro Boselli is a model, mechanical engineer, and adventurer. He discusses the value of many sources of experience, trusting your instincts, and death-defying solo trips into the unknown.

Palladium Editors Posted on June 7, 2023June 7, 2023

School Is Not Enough

Children need purposeful work to develop agency and self-possession. That education is unlikely to happen in school.

Simon Sarris Posted on June 6, 2023August 21, 2023

Complex Systems Won’t Survive the Competence Crisis

Complex systems like air traffic and energy operate on rigorous competency. With the managers of these systems prioritizing goals like diversity, these networks are now eroding.

Harold Robertson Posted on June 1, 2023January 11, 2024

Industrial Civilization Needs a Biological Future

The core “WEIRD” populations of industrial society are getting consumed by it. They need to biologically assert themselves for technological civilization to survive.

Adam Van Buskirk Posted on May 18, 2023August 21, 2023

ESG Is the Opium of the Investors

ESG has created a luxury good out of symbolic pro-social investing. In practice, it mainly replicates consensus ideology. Those who want to go beyond it must act directly on the world.

Nicolas Villarreal Posted on May 5, 2023May 5, 2023

Britain Is Dead

Despite its early industrial dominance, Britain’s elites never managed to adapt to the new landscape of power. After more than a century of structural breakdown, its very future as a unified state is in doubt.

Samuel McIlhagga Posted on April 27, 2023May 31, 2023

Entrepreneurial Statecraft Gets the Goods

You don’t reshape society by starting a cultural movement. Instead, you need to implement direct action materialism.

Wolf Tivy Posted on April 25, 2023June 5, 2023

Who Is the Art World For?

Art today often aims to shock rather than inspire. How did that change happen?

David Gelland Posted on April 20, 2023May 16, 2023

The Smallest Living Things, A Short Film

The health of the smallest living things is necessary for the survival of all life on Earth. This short film, directed by Charles Abelmann, tells the story of one self-made farmer’s quest to care for microbiomes—and call out the abuse of antibiotic overuse in livestock and people.

Charles Abelmann Posted on April 17, 2023April 17, 2023

“A Pride in the Craft” With Bill Bensley

Bill Bensley looks back on decades of perfecting his maximalist design philosophy in Asia. He discusses his approach to cultural interpretation, ecological synthesis, and the pursuit of artistic excellence.

Avetis Muradyan Posted on April 13, 2023May 17, 2023

Journey to the Golden Age

Golden ages leave behind the undying fame of their heroes. It is those who engage them as peers that become capable of initiating a new one.

Avetis Muradyan Posted on April 11, 2023May 16, 2023

Fertility Collapse Demands New Cultures

Demographic collapse is now inevitable in most countries. Families that optimize for child-rearing now will build the cultures of the future.

Malcolm and Simone Collins Posted on April 6, 2023April 6, 2023

The Golden Age of Aerospace

Postwar America’s aerospace industry combined captured German personnel with manufacturing excellence to accomplish the most incredible engineering feats in history. But process knowledge can be easily lost.

Brian Balkus Posted on April 4, 2023May 16, 2023

A School of Strength and Character

Nineteenth-century Americans stunned outsiders with their capacity for self-organizing. By cultivating the virtues of public usefulness, procedural formality, and agentic hierarchy, they created a powerful set of norms for building institutions.

Tanner Greer Posted on March 30, 2023May 16, 2023

Midcentury Planners Demolished America’s Social Fabric

The decline of American community life did not begin with the internet. Over the course of the mid-twentieth century, the country’s urban centers were bulldozed through to make room for freeways.

Anton Cebalo Posted on March 29, 2023October 16, 2024

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