Palladium Podcast

Palladium Podcast 31: Towards a Healthy Postmodernism with Mary Harrington

Wolf Tivy and Mary Harrington discuss her experience learning to recover meaning within postmodernism, and the larger philosophical growing pains we are facing as a society.

Palladium Podcast 30: Dan Faggella on AI as a Superweapon

AI technology will increasingly be a superweapon for totalitarian social and geopolitical control. Wolf Tivy and Daniel Faggella discuss this disturbing potential impact, geopolitical strife, and the long-term problem of species dominance.

Palladium Podcast 29: Nicholas Paul Brysiewicz on Pandemic Reflections

Wolf Tivy talks to Nicholas Paul Brysiewicz from the Long Now Foundation about philosophical reflections on the pandemic. It is a chance to step back into a longer now, listen to what the world teaching us, and find confidence in our callings.

Digital Salon 1: Coronavirus Response with William Eden and Matt Parlmer

Palladium senior editor Wolf Tivy holds a digital salon with William Eden, Matt Parlmer, and a few select audience guests, to discuss the coronavirus pandemic, why we took it seriously early on, and what we're doing now for the public good.

William Eden is an entrepreneur-in-residence at Ulysses Diversified Holdings and a former biotech investor at Thiel Capital. Prior to that, he worked as an economist at the Federal Reserve.

Matt Parlmer is a software engineer, who is now dedicating his time to the Open PPE Project, a venture to re-shore N95-style mask manufacturing in the U.S. as fast as possible and is looking for an infusion of capital. He can be reached at Twitter or his website.

Palladium Podcast 28: Mwiya Musokotwane on Building a New City in Zambia

Jonah Bennett interviews Mwiya Musokotwane, who is building Nkwashi, a new city in Zambia.

Palladium Podcast 27: Restoring the Ice Age Mammoth Steppe to Beat Climate Change

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.

Palladium Podcast 26: Adventures in East Africa with Sean Pawley

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.

Palladium Podcast 25: How to Build Industrial Sovereignty

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.

Palladium Podcast 24: Jason Crawford on the Concept of Progress Studies

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.

Palladium Podcast 23: Bachelor's Degrees Are The New Citizenship

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.