Palladium Podcast

Deep in Siberia, Nikita Zimov is restoring the Pleistocene ecosystem to combat climate change and undo the damage done by ancient over-hunting. Wolf Tivy interviews him to find out how and why. To get involved or donate, visit the Pleistocene Park's official site and check out the Patreon .

Jonah Bennett and Wolf Tivy interview Sean Pawley on his work developing a new bank in East Africa, how Rwanda has developed under a Singapore-style model since 1994, and Chinese geopolitical strategy in Africa.

Wolf Tivy interviews Ben Landau-Taylor and Oberon Dixon-Luinenburg on their recent Palladium piece about state-directed industrialization around the world, the relationship between economics and political power, and why we should care about the development of machine tools.

Ash Milton interviews Jason Crawford, author of the blog The Roots of Progress , about the development of progress studies as a new field of research and community.

Jonah Bennett and Wolf Tivy discuss Seth Largo's article The University System Isn't Going Anywhere , why the bachelor's degree is the new citizenship, and what it would take to actually build a status-generating alternative to the university.

Wolf Tivy and Pasha Kamyshev discuss Pasha's latest article on AI grand strategy , and the deeper foundations of the problem: we are building digital totalitarianism, but we don't know how to reconcile that with creating a good society.

Ash Milton discusses his review of economist Mariana Mazzucato's tour de force book The Value of Everything with Jonah Bennett and Wolf Tivy and further dives into the topics of the economic value debate and its fallout, how states create wealth, whether finance is productive, and the challenge of policing rent seeking.

Jonah Bennett, Wolf Tivy, and Ash Milton are joined by Palladium writer Jean Fan to discuss her recent narrative piece on the psychological experience of observing rapid progress and change in China.

Jonah Bennett, Wolf Tivy, and Ash Milton are joined by Palladium writer Siavash Tahan to discuss his recent piece on urban housing politics in California. Topics include the class dynamics of housing, social community, the future of cities, and how cruise ships reveal that land is a scam.

Welcome to the eighteenth episode of the Palladium Podcast, where we explore the future of governance and society. Jonah Bennett and Ash Milton are joined by Palladium writers Avetis Muradyan and Ryan Khurana. They discuss Avetis' recent narrative piece on landlordism and economic pessimism , as well as the power of storytelling in producing optimism.

Welcome to the seventeenth episode of the Palladium Podcast, where we explore the future of governance and society. Jonah Bennett and Wolf Tivy interview award-winning investigative journalist Ben Westhoff on his new book Fentanyl, Inc. , a monumental effort that discusses the inception of the fentanyl crisis in America and reports on Westhoff's infiltration of Chinese labs to get to the bottom of...

Welcome to the sixteenth episode of the Palladium Podcast, where we explore the future of governance and society. Jonah Bennett, Wolf Tivy, and Ash Milton discuss the themes of social alienation and reintegration embedded in a number of recent Palladium articles. Topics include collective action, substantive goods, and the private market for cults.

Welcome to the fifteenth episode of the Palladium Podcast, where we explore the future of governance and society. This week, Jonah Bennett, Wolf Tivy, and Ash Milton interview Glen Weyl, founder and board member of RadicalxChange and Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft, about his book Radical Markets , where he introduces new ways of re-imagining property ownership and voting.

Welcome to the fourteenth episode of the Palladium Podcast, where we explore the future of governance and society. This week, Jonah Bennett and Wolf Tivy talk about science fiction with Hannu Rajaniemi, a New York Times published science fiction writer and biotech startup founder. He’s currently CEO of HelixNano , which works on developing novel therapeutic modalities for cancer.

Welcome to the thirteenth episode of the Palladium Podcast, where we explore the future of governance and society. This week, Jonah Bennett, Wolf Tivy, and Ash Milton interview Gladden Pappin, assistant professor of politics at the University of Dallas and deputy editor of American Affairs, about liberalism, the state, and Pappin's recent article Toward a Party of the State.

Welcome to the twelfth episode of the Palladium Podcast, where we explore the future of governance and society. This week, Jonah Bennett, Wolf Tivy, and Ash Milton discuss Jonah's recent article on the U.S. national security state's move to ban the export of advanced microprocessors to Huawei, a full-scale technology company with links to the Chinese government.

Welcome to the eleventh episode of the Palladium Podcast, where we explore the future of governance and society. This week, Jonah Bennett and Wolf Tivy interview Nick Cassimatis, a former tenured AI professor, on artificial general intelligence, AI and unemployment, and the current state of the field. Nick is a former tenured AI professor and the founder of Dry.io , a platform that makes software...

Welcome to the tenth episode of the Palladium Podcast, where we explore the future of governance and society. This week, Jonah Bennett, Wolf Tivy, and Ash Milton interview Mark Lutter , founder of the Center for Innovative Governance Research , on the future of charter cities. For suggestions or questions, email editor@palladiummag.com.

Welcome to the ninth episode of the Palladium Podcast, where we explore the future of governance and society. This week, Jonah Bennett and Wolf Tivy interview Samo Burja, founder of Bismarck Analysis, a political risk consulting firm, on his recent Botswana piece and his thoughts about China's Belt & Road in Africa. You can find Samo on Twitter and YouTube .

Welcome to the eighth episode of the Palladium Podcast, where we explore the future of governance and society. This week, Wolf Tivy interviews Will Eden, a biotech investor at Thiel Capital, on the impact of biotech advancements on society, Will's proposed health plan, immortality, and whether health care is even real at all.

Welcome to the seventh episode of the Palladium Podcast, where we explore the future of governance and society. This week, Jonah Bennett, Wolf Tivy, and Ash Milton discuss the recent coup in Venezuela and Luka Jukic's article on how the Balkans are hanging by an American thread. For suggestions or questions, email editor@palladiummag.com.

Welcome to the sixth episode of the Palladium Podcast, where we explore the future of governance and society. This week, Jonah Bennett, Wolf Tivy, and Ash Milton interview Matt Ellison, author of the recent Palladium piece on Gustav Hilger, the German strategic mastermind behind the American post-war order. For suggestions or questions, email editor@palladiummag.com.

This week, Wolf Tivy interviews Nick Pinkston , founder of Plethora, a rapid manufacturing company in San Francisco, about manufacturing and industrial policy.

This week, Jonah Bennett, Ash Milton, and Wolf Tivy discuss the role of romantic adventurism at the end of history and also Daniel Weissman’s fantastic piece on post-globalization Istanbul .

This week, Jonah Bennett, Ash Milton, Wolf Tivy, and Miguel Morel discuss Miguel’s on-the-ground Venezuela article and the Palladium team’s experiences in Caracas, Bogotá, and Buenos Aires. The panel also delves into Luka Jukic’s piece on the post-Soviet sphere and Sonya Mann’s piece on cypherpunk culture and gun printing .