Wolf Tivy and Ash Milton discuss the Qing-era Chinese thinker Yan Fu and how to understand liberalism as a political project. Political systems exist downstream of a governing class that tries to create a certain kind of society. The liberal thought of John Stuart Mill and Adam Smith proposed increasingly broad participation in political and economic power. But its mission was not permanent rebellion. Instead, applying the virtue of liberality to power would create a strong society and a dynamic...
Mar 02, 2021•51 min•Ep. 73
Wolf Tivy and Ash Milton discuss the GameStop rebellion and why such outbursts almost always fail to bring about the changes they want. The reality is that power exists as a set of deals, and only those able to coordinate on the same level have the potential to rewrite them. Most movements end up becoming recuperated instead—but this presents its own set of opportunities. The first half of the show is available to all our listeners. The full discussion is available to Palladium Members. Members ...
Feb 13, 2021•47 min•Ep. 72
Wolf Tivy and Ash Milton discuss the ultimate impact of human beings on Earth, and why neither green energy tweaks nor radical degrowth and return to nature are solutions. Instead, we need to envision what the Earth could be if we used our powers properly. We also need to reconcile our ethics of respect towards non-human parts of the world's ecosystem, and our disruptive role within it. The first half of the show is available to all our listeners. The full discussion is available to Palladium Me...
Jan 30, 2021•51 min•Ep. 71
Mike Solana joins Wolf Tivy to discuss how San Francisco's governance works, how it has gone wrong, and what he thinks it would take to fix it. This episode is available in full to all listeners. Most of our podcasts are only available in full to Palladium Members. Members also get to participate in the Palladium Community Salons, which the editorial podcasts are often based on, as well as other benefits like the community chat. To become a Palladium Member, subscribe here ....
Jan 09, 2021•40 min•Ep. 70
Wolf Tivy and Ash Milton discuss what kind of economy we want to build, accumulative versus developmental orientations to industry, what classes are actually interested in investing in growth, and the necessity of a class of the state with interests beyond individual finance. The first half of the show is available to all our listeners. The full discussion is available to Palladium Members. Members also get to participate in the Palladium Community Salons, which the editorial podcasts are often ...
Jan 02, 2021•53 min•Ep. 69
Wolf Tivy and Ash Milton discuss Charlie Smith's recent piece on posthumanism and its implications. Other topics include the ways in which a complex society impacts our agency, why the idea of discourse is a mind virus, and thinking of humanity as a hypothesis for life. The first half of the show is available to all our listeners. The full discussion is available to Palladium Members. Members also get to participate in the Palladium Community Salons, which the editorial podcasts are based on, as...
Dec 24, 2020•44 min•Ep. 68
Wolf Tivy and Galen Wolfe-Pauly discuss what's wrong with social media and computing as we know it, as well as a new paradigm for humane computing. Galen is the CEO of Tlon, which runs Urbit , a personal computing server that is designed to give users personal control over their data on social networks and other applications. The first half of the show is available to all our listeners. The full discussion is available to Palladium Members. Members also get to participate in the Palladium Commun...
Nov 24, 2020•47 min•Ep. 67
Wolf Tivy and Ash Milton discuss the concept of progress and whether it should continue to have a central role on American consciousness. Other topics included how far we can distinguish between types of progress and whether it makes any sense in describing the cycles of human civilizations. The first half of the show is available to all our listeners. The full discussion is available to Palladium Members. Members also get to participate in the Palladium Community Salons, which the editorial pod...
Nov 19, 2020•46 min•Ep. 66
Dr. Nicholas Christakis joins the salon to discuss his new book on COVID-19, extreme crisis, and what we can learn about the relationship between pandemics and human nature. Dr. Nicholas Christakis is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. He is also Director of the Human Nature Lab and Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science. His research focuses on topics such as biosocial science, behavior genetics, and network science. He is author of the newly...
Nov 17, 2020•43 min•Ep. 65
Wolf Tivy and Ash Milton discuss the role of billionaires, how to think about personal wealth, and the inherent tensions between capital and state. They also delve into whether this kind of power can be reconciled with the greater goals of a society. The first half of the show is available to our listeners, but the full discussion is available solely to Palladium Members. Members also get to participate in the Palladium Community Salons, which the editorial podcasts are based on, as well as othe...
Nov 09, 2020•46 min•Ep. 64
Roman Krznaric joins the salon from UK to discuss his book, intergenerational thinking, and how we can be good ancestors. His latest book is The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking , coming soon in the U.S. as of November 2020. Roman grew up in Sydney and Hong Kong. He studied at the universities of Oxford, London and Essex, and gained a PhD in political sociology. He is a Research Fellow of the Long Now Foundation, and founder of the Empathy Museum. His previous books, ...
Nov 05, 2020•46 min•Ep. 63
Samo Burja comes on the podcast to talk about when it's appropriate to regulate online speech and the proper relationship between state and media. Samo Burja is the founder of Bismarck Analysis, a political risk consulting firm. He is also a research fellow at the Long Now Foundation. You can follow him on Twitter @SamoBurja .
Oct 30, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 62
Wolf Tivy and Ash Milton discuss what we can learn from ancient Greek modernity, the collapse of the scientific mythos, and how both knowledge and statecraft can find new grounds for legitimacy. The weekly editor's podcast draws from discussions in the Palladium Community Salon. To participate in these conversations, register here .
Oct 26, 2020•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 61
Wolf Tivy and Ash Milton discuss the postmodern condition, the failures of objectivity and neutrality, and how truth and meaning can survive. They also responded to a number of themes brought up in David Chapman's recent Twitter thread on these topics. The weekly editor's podcast draws from discussions in the Palladium Community Salon. To participate in these conversations, register here ....
Oct 22, 2020•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 60
Mary Harrington comes on the podcast with Wolf Tivy to build out a model of relational vs. transactional conceptions of justice and morality, and to discuss bringing back the mirror of princes literature. Mary Harrington is a columnist for the UK current affairs magazine UnHerd. She can be found on Twitter @moveincircles .
Oct 16, 2020•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 59
Laura Deming joins the salon to speak with Wolf Tivy and Ash Milton about education, where talent comes from, and the state of longevity research. Discussion topics included how to cultivate talent, where the most fruitful life extension research is happening, and whether intellectually productive communities are necessarily doomed to stagnation. Laura Deming is the founder of The Longevity Fund, a Venture Capital firm that focuses on life extension. She was homeschooled in New Zealand, taught h...
Oct 13, 2020•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 58
Michael O'Sullivan joins the salon to speak with Wolf Tivy and Ash Milton about his book The Levelling: What's Next After Globalization, which includes discussion on the future multipolar world, Europe's increasingly cohesive development as a geopolitical pole, and how to fix economic inequality produced by globalization. Michael O’Sullivan is a member of the World Economic Forum's Council on the New Economy, a Forbes contributor, and a speaker at the 2020 TED Talk conference. He is a former Chi...
Oct 06, 2020•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 57
John Dulin comes on the podcast with Wolf Tivy to discuss recent advances in weapons systems, how war is one of the most important drivers of technological progress, and the role of both the public and private sectors in fundamental research and mass marketization. John Dulin is CEO and founder of a defense industry startup. Previously, he was a machine learning research engineer at Numerai and Freenome. He can be found on Twitter @JohnDDulin ....
Sep 17, 2020•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 56
His Serene Highness Prince Michael of Liechtenstein speaks with Wolf Tivy and Ash Milton about his perspective on changes in international politics and economics—especially the importance of statecraft for small countries as the moral fashions and taboos of the great powers become more influential through a globalized internet culture. Prince Michael is Executive Chairman of Industrie- und Finanzkontor Ets. as well as Founder and Chairman of Geopolitical Intelligence Services AG Vaduz. He is als...
Sep 15, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 55
Byrne Hobart comes on the podcast to talk to Wolf Tivy about what parts of the American economy are real, the phenomenon of inequality increasing during crises, and the impact of COVID-19 on the real economy. Byrne Hobart works in the financial services industry and writes one of the top newsletters on Substack called The Diff . He has worked at research companies, a hedge fund, and a cryptocurrency startup.
Sep 09, 2020•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 54
Matt Parlmer talks with Wolf Tivy about the recent protests, their effects on state legitimacy in America, and whether Christopher Dahlke's 2018 article Mass Political Violence Won't Happen in America still holds in 2020. Matt Parlmer is a software engineer, who works on research and development at Utility Computing. He can be reached on Twitter or his website ....
Aug 26, 2020•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 53
Bruno Maçães joins Wolf Tivy and Ash Milton to discuss why America is ripe for a re-founding, stagnation in Europe and China, and why liberalism has stopped delivering on progress. Bruno Maçães is the former Europe Minister of Portugal from 2013 to 2015. He is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington and the author of two recent books, The Dawn of Eurasia and Belt and Road . The Dawn of Eurasia was selected as a book of the year by both the Financial Times and Foreign Affairs. His n...
Aug 18, 2020•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 52
Wolf Tivy and Ash Milton talk with Stephen Wolfram about the role institutions play in generating intellectual progress in science, as well as his development of a new computational paradigm for understanding fundamental physics. Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha and the Wolfram Language; the author of A New Kind of Science; the originator of the Wolfram Physics Project; and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. Over the course of more than four decades, he has been...
Aug 03, 2020•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 51
Saffron Huang joins Wolf Tivy to expand on her recent Palladium article on Harvard , particularly about the ways in which elite education can be re-imagined to route around the problem of managerialism. Saffron Huang is a graduating senior at Harvard in Applied Mathematics and Government. She is currently working on various projects related to Chinese institutions, technology ethics, and AI. She can be found on Twitter at @saffronhuang ....
Jul 31, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 50
Jul 27, 2020•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 49
Samo Burja joins Wolf Tivy and Ash Milton to discuss how great founders make history through the institutions they create, how political transitions actually work, and what intellectual dark matter exists in our society today. Samo Burja is the founder and president of Bismarck Analysis, which applies the foundational sociological research that Samo and his team have produced over the past decade to deliver unique insights to clients about institutional design and strategy. Samo’s studies focus ...
Jul 13, 2020•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 48
Author and professor Michael Lind joins Wolf Tivy and Matt Ellison to discuss economic pluralism, the new class war between America's elites and its working class, and how to fix it. Michael is the author of more than a dozen books of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, including The Next American Nation and Land of Promise. He has been an editor or staff writer for The New Yorker, Harper’s, The New Republic, and The National Interest. He has taught at Harvard and Johns Hopkins and is currently a p...
Jul 01, 2020•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 47
Marc Fasteau and Ian Fletcher join Wolf Tivy to discuss the economic foundations of industrial policy , why manufacturing is more valuable than other economic activity, and what went wrong in the economics profession. Marc Fasteau is the founder and former chairman of American Strategic Insurance Group and board member of the Coalition for a Prosperous America. He formerly served on the staffs of the House Banking & Currency Committee, of Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, and of the Joi...
Jun 19, 2020•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 46
Luka Jukic comes on the podcast to talk with Matt Ellison about his recent reporting in Ukraine and the war for the country's soul. Luka Jukic is a graduate student at the UCL School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies. He has lived in and reported from many countries in Central and Eastern Europe.
Jun 14, 2020•54 min•Ep. 45
Political theorist and Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin joins Wolf Tivy and Ash Milton to discuss mechanism design, governance, and blockchain technology. Vitalik Buterin is best known for co-founding Bitcoin Magazine and the Ethereum project, but he has been recently expanding his attention into more general problems of political theory, governance, and society. This journey has led to collaboration with the Taiwanese government, among other projects. It's going to be very interesting to talk w...
Jun 09, 2020•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 44
