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Yan Fu’s Lessons on the True Mission of Liberalism

The late Qing scholar Yan Fu saw liberalism as a grand project to create virtuous people and a dynamic society. His ideas failed in China, but could succeed in America.

Posted on February 16, 2021July 16, 2021 Blake Smith

Palladium Podcast 54: Recuperating the GameStop Rebellion

The GameStop rebellion started and ended as an outburst. The coordinated deals behind power prevent it, and most rebellions, from ever achieving more.

Posted on February 13, 2021 Palladium Podcast

Armenia Is an Orphaned Client State

A journey through Armenia reveals a country on Russian life support. With Azerbaijan and Turkey in ascendency, the country’s lack of allies is its most existential threat.

Posted on February 12, 2021July 16, 2021 Fin dePencier

New Industries Come From Crazy People

Industrial visionaries tend to have chaotic and disruptive personalities. Their goals don’t neatly fit the social ladder. But societies that make room for them reap immense rewards.

Posted on February 2, 2021 Ben Landau-Taylor

Palladium Podcast 53: The First Planet We’re Terraforming Is Earth

Humans are irreversibly reshaping Earth, and neither degrowth nor green energy tweaks will stop it. In the long run, we will have to use our power to create a thriving garden planet.

Posted on January 30, 2021 Palladium Podcast

The Forgotten UN Intervention to Build Democracy in Cambodia

In the early 1990s, the UN intervened in Cambodia in a show of liberal democratic state-building. Its failures foreshadowed the hubris which would follow the liberal world order from Yugoslavia to Afghanistan.

Posted on January 20, 2021March 2, 2021 Tanner Greer

Palladium Podcast 52: Mike Solana on Learning How to Change San Francisco

Mike Solana joins Wolf Tivy to discuss how San Francisco’s governance works, how it has gone wrong, and what he thinks it would take to fix it.

Posted on January 11, 2021 Palladium Podcast

Benjamin H. Bratton on Terraforming the World Order

Sociologist and design theorist Benjamin H Bratton discusses how our ongoing technologically-driven terraforming will remake the world order, and how technology reveals and creates human destiny as much as enabling it.

Posted on January 11, 2021January 20, 2021 Marko Bauer

Palladium Podcast 51: Building a Developmentalist Class

Wolf Tivy and Ash Milton discuss accumulative versus developmental orientations to industry, and the necessity of a class with interests beyond individual finance.

Posted on January 2, 2021 Palladium Podcast

American Reform Is the Only Answer to China

The biggest threat to America’s world order is not China, but the country’s own deepening dysfunction. Its grand strategy must go beyond containment and transform the basis of U.S. power.

Posted on December 30, 2020January 4, 2021 Wolf Tivy and Stephen Pimentel

Palladium Podcast 50: The Posthumanist Hypothesis

Wolf Tivy and Ash Milton discuss Charlie Smith’s recent piece on posthumanism and its implications. Other topics include the ways in which a complex society impacts our agency, why the idea of discourse is a mind virus, and thinking of humanity as a hypothesis for life.

Posted on December 24, 2020December 24, 2020 Palladium Podcast

Small Business’s Class War Could Finish Off American Dynamism

As neoliberal reforms broke the back of American labor, they also created a growing class of small business owners. Now, that class has come back to haunt both big business and the establishment which created them.

Posted on December 21, 2020December 21, 2020 Nicolas Villarreal

China’s Real Threat Is to America’s Ruling Ideology

America’s China hawks paint the country as an economic, geopolitical, and military danger. In reality, China is less a threat to America itself than it is to the legitimacy of U.S. ruling ideology.

Posted on December 14, 2020January 4, 2021 Richard Hanania

Kevin Kelly on Why Technology Has a Will

Wired magazine founder and technologist Kevin Kelly discusses why technology has agency, why he believes in God but not destiny, and how to be an anti-utopian optimist.

Posted on December 10, 2020December 11, 2020 Patrick McGraw

Why the US Dollar Could Outlast the American Empire

Observers regularly predict the U.S. dollar’s collapse as the global reserve currency. In reality, history shows that currency dominance is one of the most enduring forms of hegemony.

Posted on December 5, 2020December 9, 2020 Byrne Hobart

Palladium Podcast 49: Humane Computing with Urbit

Wolf Tivy and Galen Wolfe-Pauly discuss what’s wrong with social media and computing as we know it, as well as a new paradigm for humane computing.

Posted on November 24, 2020 Palladium Podcast

Confronting Modernity Means Overcoming Humanism

Humanism believed that we could conquer the world. In reality, modernity has escaped our control. Only a posthumanist framework can see us through.

Posted on November 23, 2020April 14, 2022 Charlie Smith

Palladium Podcast 48: The American Ideal of Progress

Wolf Tivy and Ash Milton discuss the concept of progress and whether it still has a role in the American consciousness.

Posted on November 19, 2020 Palladium Podcast

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