PALLADIUM 18: Biological Inheritance will ship to all Palladium members on August 14th. Subscribe today to receive your copy of our summer 2025 print edition in-depth essays examining humanity’s stewardship of our biological inheritance. For the first time in our species’ history everything from our genes, to how we age, to how we reproduce, or what kinds of new plants and animals we might share our world with is up for discussion and modification. 

The first babies artificially selected for greater intelligence have already been born, a momentous fact our culture has nearly completely ignored outside of a few pieces talking about this or that biotech startup. Compared to the intense public, intellectual, and political response of the cloning of the first mammal—a sheep named Dolly in 1996—we have sleepwalked into a future to which we now must awaken.

Hormone therapies, organ replacements grown in animals, genetically engineered tissue, symbiotic bacteria, artificial wombs, gene-edited babies… all of these technologies and more will be pursued and developed further in our immediate future to tackle pressing environmental, public health, and socioeconomic problems. Even if they are insufficient to solve such problems, they completely reshape society through rewriting our biology, which has served as an unwritten constitution delineating our social and political life for hundreds of thousands of years. 

PALLADIUM 18: Biological Inheritance is our attempt at opening and updating this long-overdue and long-dormant conversation on our biology. Join us in this exploration of our biology’s future. Like all our print editions, PALLADIUM 18 is a luxury creation designed for aesthetic enjoyment and focused thinking. It is a gift for our members and not for sale. Become a Palladium member today to receive your copy. 

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Featuring

Our Genetic Constitution by Tim Lantin. Intentional design is replacing evolution as the main driver of genetic change in humans. To enhance the brain is to rewire the machinery that makes institutions possible.

As Caste Vanishes Only Genes Remain by Razib Khan. As Indian Americans continue their socioeconomic ascent, the relevance of caste evaporates. Yet researchers have found evidence this social technology was sustained for thousands of years.

Youth Is a Strategic Resource. Can Medical Science Slow Aging? by Sarah Constantin. New research may slow aging, promising a healthier, longer-lived society—but current inter-generational tensions also point to potential conflicts such advances will bring.

Competitive Hormone Supplementation Is Shaping America’s Future Business Titans by Brian P. Hoover. As testosterone levels decline, high-level executives reach for human growth hormone and testosterone supplementation to build their empires and engage in corporate warfare well into their seventies.

Artificial Wombs Will Save Lives Not Birth Rates by Lan Dao. The technology to grow a baby outside a mother is closer than you think. Even with wide adoption, it won’t raise fertility enough to stop population decline—but will be enough to save lives.

The Safest Path to Stable Climate Is Designing New Plants by Patrick Mellor. Arcadia and the Amazon were both created by human gardeners, not by natural forces. Our newfound responsibility to steward the Earth’s biosphere is best met with technologically enhanced gardening