The Palladium Letter

How to Deal With Iran

The Iran crisis cannot be resolved without recognizing Iran’s unexpected military and technological edge. Victories can be salvaged from this dangerous…

Aug 7

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China is Building a Blue Granary

The People’s Republic of China hopes to turn the open ocean into the world’s largest farm. It might not be a bad idea.

Aug 4

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"The Only Reason to Explore Space" With Marko Jukic

​Join PALLADIUM Magazine in San Francisco to hear a lecture by the esteemed author.

Aug 3

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July 2026

Post-Scarcity Leads to Technological Stagnation

The bottleneck of the computer age is not compute, but ideas for how to use it.

Jul 31

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Frontier Panic

As artificial intelligence has advanced, it has taken the place of climate change as the main perceived threat to our planet.

Jul 30

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Wiring Capital to Compute

America possesses more capital than any other nation in history and the most compute demand in the world. It is still waiting for a market to wire them…

Jul 20

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Mesa-Optimization is Destroying Education

Educational institutions have learned to optimize for everything except learning. Artificial intelligence could force them to measure what’s important.

Jul 17

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June 2026

War by Other Means

Robotic warfare is shifting the source of state power away from citizens to firms. The transition will produce a new social contract.

Jun 23

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The Rival Theologies of Artificial Intelligence

Recently, the Vatican and Anthropic have shown a united front on artificial intelligence. But are they actually aligned?

Jun 6

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May 2026

The Burden of Discernment

Scientific institutions are struggling to survive under a mountain of publications and poor standards of peer review. Artificial Intelligence could…

May 23

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April 2026

The Lifecycle of an Apocalypse

Since World War I, our society has been convinced that civilization is on the brink of technological apocalypse. The specific technology changes, but…

Apr 22

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The Peoples of America

The human geography of this continent is a unique result of different European cultures encountering a new world.

Apr 16

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