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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, 2023June 1, 2023

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, 2023May 19, 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, 2023May 16, 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, 2023March 30, 2023

Madame Mao’s Nietzschean Revolution

As Mao Zedong’s wife, Jiang Qing helped lead China’s Cultural Revolution with a Nietzschean philosophy of art. Through revolutionary operas and ballets, she sought a heroic consciousness that could transform society.

Dylan Levi King Posted on March 17, 2023May 16, 2023

PALLADIUM 09: Political Outcomes

History is driven by the ambitious individuals who engineer great political outcomes. PALLADIUM 09: Political Outcomes is now available, featuring exclusive interviews and custom artwork.

Palladium Editors Posted on March 7, 2023March 7, 2023

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.

Ben Landau-Taylor and Samo Burja Posted on March 7, 2023March 7, 2023

Bill Gates Has Perfected Managerial Philanthropy

Bill Gates has used his foundation to win prestige and secure the goals of the elite consensus. But without strategic independence, he cannot act against its worst ideas.

Brian Balkus Posted on March 3, 2023March 10, 2023

What Genius Looks Like

James Glimm may have just solved one of the most complex problems in mathematics—but his life’s work might be able to teach us the secret of living well.

Ginevra Davis Posted on March 2, 2023April 14, 2023

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