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Palladium Magazine is an unbiased platform that delves into the future of governance and society through thoughtful slow publishing, in-depth analysis, political theory, and investigative reporting. Founded in September 2018 by Jonah Bennett and Wolf Tivy, Palladium aims to create impactful and insightful content during a time when institutions are struggling, political turmoil is prevalent, and original ideas are scarce. On our website, we share extensive essays, along with a quarterly print edition available for our members. The support from our members helps fund our research and journalism, which is provided to the public without any advertising. Consider joining Palladium as a member. Committed to serious journalism, Palladium has dispatched writers on challenging assignments around the globe. Our team has reported from undercover operations in Xinjiang, attended clandestine gatherings in a Chinese house church, covered the turmoil in Venezuela, and witnessed the Gilets Jaunes protests in Paris. We have also explored life in post-globalization Istanbul, the rise of authoritarianism in Kazakhstan, and the elite gatherings in Davos. Our articles have appeared in notable publications such as The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Bloomberg, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, The New Yorker, Tech Crunch, The Washington Post, and The Diplomat. Palladium is also associated with the World Economic Forum’s Strategic Intelligence Platform. Our analysis and political theory have addressed key topics like the significance of deradicalization, discovering meaning within power structures, the importance of elite accountability, the emergence of a Confucian power center in China, and the necessity for a renewed state consciousness to promote the public good.

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Build the Presidio Freedom City

Jan 17, 2025 | palladiummag.com | Mark Lutter |Jeffrey Mason

In March 2023, now-President-elect Donald Trump called for the creation of up to ten “Freedom Cities,” new cities built on federal land to serve as hubs for the development of emerging technologies, revitalization of American manufacturing, and lowering the cost of housing for American families.
Greenland and the Coldest War

Jan 10, 2025 | palladiummag.com | Ryan McEntush

Greenland has returned to the global spotlight as President Trump renews his interest in acquiring the northern island during his second term. The idea first surfaced publicly in 2019, when the White House floated the possibility of such a move, prompting a firm response from Greenlandâs Premier: âGreenland is ours.
It’s Time to Build the Exoplanet Telescope

Oct 18, 2024 | palladiummag.com | Casey Handmer

With the recent SpaceX Starship orbital flight tests, it is time to commit to building the largest physically possible space telescope. Such a telescope would peer deeper into the universe than any before it, answering fundamental questions: are we alone? What do Earth-like exoplanets around other stars look like? How did we get here? What weird stuff awaits discovery? Where is the limit on human ambition to know what is in our universe? The Monster Scope answers these questions.
How the Persecution of Pirates Gave Us Procedural Manipulation

Jan 19, 2024 | palladiummag.com | Ryan McEntush

The legal term hostis humani generis has historically labeled pirates as challengers of societal order‚ÄĒthe ‚Äúenemies of all mankind‚ÄĚ‚ÄĒwho could be dealt with by any man or nation outside the law. But these barbarians are not always foreign in nature, emerging, rather, from within existing power structures. With the rise of liberalism and global commerce, new tactics emerged to combat these encroaching threats: the law became a crucial weapon in the public sphere.
Why I Built Zuzalu

Oct 6, 2023 | palladiummag.com | Vitalik Buterin

We tend to think about physical places, as well as the activities and cultures that come with those places, as being immutable. As an individual, you may have a choice to move to a particular place: to San Francisco for its open and accepting culture or for its AI development scene, to Berlin for the open source hacker culture, or to Asia to be part of a new and rising world.
It’s Time for Greater San Francisco

Sep 7, 2023 | palladiummag.com | Evan Zimmerman

If there’s one thing that the millions living across the San Francisco Bay Area can agree on, it’s this: things are falling apart. From homelessness and fentanyl to rents that are unaffordable even on six-figure median incomes, the lack of tangible progress on these issues gives the impression that the Bay Area is fundamentally ungoverned and maybe even ungovernable. This is strange because governments are the one thing the Bay Area does not lack.
School Is Not Enough

Jun 6, 2023 | palladiummag.com | Simon Sarris

When I read biographies, early lives leap out the most. Leonardo da Vinci was a studio apprentice to Verrocchio at 14 years old. Walt Disney took on a number of jobs, chiefly delivering papers, by 11. When Vladimir Nabokov was 16, he published his first poetry collection while still in school. Andrew Carnegie finished schooling at 12 and was 13 when he began his second job as a telegraph office boy, where he convinced his superiors to teach him the telegraph machine itself.
Britain Is Dead

Apr 28, 2023 | palladiummag.com | Samuel McIlhagga
Britain Is Dead

Apr 28, 2023 | palladiummag.com | Samuel McIlhagga

Every decade or so, the UK finds itself in crisis. These are the moments that open up rare and brief periods of reflection on the decline of the country’s geopolitical relevance and of the British state. Then the gates close, the crisis diminishes, and an financial services sector—combined with the prestigious longevity of British institutions—cushions the downward trends until the next crisis.
Midcentury Planners Demolished America’s Social Fabric

Mar 29, 2023 | palladiummag.com | Anton Cebalo