Palladium Podcast

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 the problem and the top of the drug supply chain.

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.