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Palladium Magazine

palladiummag.comadded August 2026

The Mirror and the Gap

Palladium Magazine9d ago

Every major technological innovation enters culture without our consent. Public intellectuals and historians may quibble over the disruptive and destructive potential of the printing press, the...

Battling All the Way Home

Palladium Magazine27 Aug 2026

Homer’s Odyssey, like the man it describes, has “many ways.” Already in its introduction or proem, the poem raises its themes, including intelligence, politics, suffering, and ultimately...

How to Deal With Iran

Palladium Magazine7 Aug 2026

Just a few weeks ago, on the seventeenth of June, U.S. President Donald Trump signed the fourteen-point Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Islamic Republic of Iran, which promised...

Frontier Panic

Palladium Magazine30 Jul 2026

Earlier this month, an unreleased OpenAI model in internal evaluations hacked its way out of secure OpenAI servers and attacked the hosting platform Hugging Face, just to steal the answer key to...

The Burden of Discernment

Palladium Magazine23 May 2026

In 1633, the year after Galileo Galilei published his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, a book that made a comparative argument strongly favoring heliocentrism, his work was banned...

The Peoples of America

Palladium Magazine16 Apr 2026

One of the things I’ve heard Americans say again and again is that “we don’t have an accent”—a statement which suggests that our culture is homogeneous and nondescript.

The Dostoevskian Moment

Palladium Magazine11 Apr 2026

The Faustian bargain was once a bad deal. The demon Mephistopheles offers you—a man in full at the dissatisfying limit of your great knowledge and success—even greater power and pleasure; you...