It's time to build. But building is intensely political, our industrial capacity has been demobilized, and we no longer have a positive vision for America that actually inspires us. | Continue reading
Since the COVID-19 outbreak, American discourse has shifted to how the country was unprepared for pandemic. But this is often a hedge for parasitic interests seeking bigger budgets. What America lacked, and what East Asian responses had, was competence. | Continue reading
Modernist and pre-modernist unexamined "objectivity" isn't coming back, but meaning need not be a casualty. Rigorous post-modernism grounds social meaning in the radically interconnected experience of our shared society. | Continue reading
Hierarchy is necessary to functional society. But we are haunted by the memory of past injustices, so we've clung to unrealistic ideals of equality. It's time to start rebuilding the positive case for just and useful hierarchies. | Continue reading
Ash Milton reviews Mariana Mazzucato's book The Value of Everything. Mazzucato's work confronts an overreaching financial sector and provides a powerful case for rebuilding state capacity. | Continue reading
American discourse doesn't prepare you for how good life in China is becoming. It's a sharp contrast to our own governance troubles. It feels like the American dream has moved to the other side of the world. | Continue reading
Real estate development in California has been frozen for decades. A new coalition is emerging to break homeowner resistance. But dishonesty from both sides prevents the reconciliation of social fabric and development, jeopardizing the future of American cities. | Continue reading
Japan is anxious over China's rise and America's decline. It is reinventing itself to maintain autonomy, but the nationalist Japanese government is having to make do without a cooperative emperor. It may be too little, too late. | Continue reading
American discourse doesn't prepare you for how good life in China is becoming. It's a sharp contrast to our own governance troubles. It feels like the American dream has moved to the other side of the world. | Continue reading
In the current period of economic and social stagnation, the video game industry has created increasingly addictive virtual experiences. Pulling users out requires a collective, not individual, effort. | Continue reading
Forget about AI. There is a much more alarming type of intelligence arising in the oceans beneath us. Most people don’t even know about it. Without a solution, humanity will be overwhelmed. | Continue reading
Canada's image as a dynamic and optimistic country is largely mythical. The Canadian economy is beset by a parasitic real estate sector and stagnant production. A better comparison is the sclerotic political environment of Brezhnev's USSR. | Continue reading
Yale, and other elite colleges, have been rocked by controversies and protests. The problem is an elite that has forgotten itself, neglected its institutions, and fallen into ideological frenzy. | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence poses serious risks to human dominance. Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype, has spent the last 10 years shining a spotlight on the problem. We spoke with Jaan to get his bold opinions and thoughts on what can be done. | Continue reading
The hype surrounding AI automation has led many companies to rush into disastrous implementation. Rather than a response to proven results, automation looks more like a self-fulfilling prophecy. | Continue reading
New research is making progress on potentially slowing the aging process. A society of healthier and longer-lived people would have many obvious benefits. But current inter-generational tensions also point to potential conflicts. | Continue reading
The U.S. national security state has been a driving force behind the Huawei ban, particularly after lobbying failures in Europe. The confrontation will spur China to secure technological sovereignty and continue to erase the domestic line between economics and politics. | Continue reading
In a newly translated speech, General Secretary Xi Jinping demonstrates the Party's commitment to presenting its development path as Marxist, rather than allowing "state capitalist" narratives to flourish. | Continue reading
Over the last decade, Turkey has decisively pulled out of the Western order, which has come at significant financial cost. Palladium explored Istanbul to see what life looks like in the post-globalization era. | Continue reading
The global image of Davos is as a network of elite interests, social agendas, and competing ambitions. Those who make the trip are confronted by a gathering full of social grifters, boring grinders, and a few interesting people. | Continue reading
The current ice age is a geologically rare event, threatened by human activity. Emissions reduction won't be enough to resolve climate change. Instead, we must learn from the ancient past to stabilize and geoengineer our environment. | Continue reading
As testosterone levels decline in America, executives at the highest levels of industry are supplementing with human growth hormone and testosterone to build their empires and engage in corporate trench warfare well into their 70s. | Continue reading
A team of Palladium correspondents spent a week in Xinjiang. They saw how the Chinese state uses Uyghur manpower and high-tech Maoism to suppress Islam and extremism. | Continue reading