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Palladium Archive: California's Vestal Flame
The consequences of fire suppression in California have challenged our relationship to the land. But the Golden State’s landscapes have always been…
May 30
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…
May 23
Palladium Archive: Stanford's War on Social Life
How Palladium helped fun strike back at Stanford
May 16
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…
May 9
Entrepreneurial Statecraft Gets the Goods
You don’t reshape society by starting a cultural movement. Instead, you need to implement direct action materialism.
May 2
April 2023
Who Is the Art World For?
Art today often aims to shock rather than inspire. How did that change happen?
Apr 25
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.
Apr 18
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.
Apr 11
A School of Strength and Character
19th century Americans stunned outsiders with their capacity for self-organizing. Through procedural formality and agentic hierarchy, they created a…
Apr 4
March 2023
Celebrating PALLADIUM 09
Last week, readers, writers, and editors of Palladium gathered on a warm Austin night for the launch of PALLADIUM 09: Political Outcomes…
Mar 28
Madame Mao's Nietzschean Revolution
Mao's wife Jiang Qing helped lead the Cultural Revolution with a Nietzschean philosophy of art. Through revolutionary operas and ballets, she sought a…
Mar 21
Our Knowledge of History Decays Over Time
Despite modern approaches to archaeology and preservation, as history moves forward we will only lose knowledge of the past.
Mar 14
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