Rationalism and Divergent Sinomodernity
Palladium Magazineby Farrell Gregory·2d ago
Moonshot AI, one of China’s largest artificial intelligence labs, unveiled its latest model Kimi K3 the day before Xi Jinping’s speech at the World AI conference (WAIC) in July 2026.
The Mirror and the Gap
Palladium Magazineby Garrett W. Ennis·9d 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...
Wealth Taxes Could Kill Privately-Owned Companies
Palladium Magazineby Christian Angelopoulos·16d ago
Nobody knows what In-N-Out Burger is worth. In 75 years, the family that owns it has never sold a share or taken outside capital, which means there are no reference transactions to value the...
Don’t Count Out the Country House
Palladium Magazineby Will Tanner·19d ago
The wealthy of Britain, and those of the Western world more broadly, are today expected to surrender rather than pass on the fortune they have spent their lives creating.
Battling All the Way Home
Palladium Magazineby Stephen Pimentel·27 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...
American AI May Not Survive Chinese Open-Source
Palladium Magazineby Daniel Francis·19 Aug 2026
The AI industry has been rocked by recent large-language model (LLM) releases from Chinese labs, most notably the Kimi K3 model from Moonshot.
Technological Determinism and Human Freedom
Palladium Magazineby Evan Zimmerman·14 Aug 2026
We fear that artificial intelligence will escape our control, pursue purposes of its own, displace human judgment, and ultimately reduce its creators to servants of the systems they built.
How to Deal With Iran
Palladium Magazineby Marko Jukic·7 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...
China is Building a Blue Granary
Palladium Magazineby Seth Dowell·4 Aug 2026
Off the coast of Zhejiang province, an unusual vessel plies the East China Sea. It could be mistaken for a cargo ship, but there are no containers on its deck.
Post-Scarcity Leads to Technological Stagnation
Palladium Magazineby Charles Rosenbauer·31 Jul 2026
For less than a thousand dollars, a modern consumer laptop may be capable of trillions of calculations per second. But consumers’ applications of this hardware are often disappointing.
Frontier Panic
Palladium Magazineby Stephanie Wakefield·30 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...
Wiring Capital to Compute
Palladium Magazineby Daniel Painter·20 Jul 2026
Over a thousand acres of land in Abilene, Texas, lie flattened with graded earth and poured concrete.
Mesa-Optimization is Destroying Education
Palladium Magazineby Matt Duffy·17 Jul 2026
In 1976 the social scientist and cyberneticist Donald T. Campbell developed a principle, now known as Campbell’s Law, that would later become one of the most reliable diagnostics of institutional...
War by Other Means
Palladium Magazineby John Severini·23 Jun 2026
In December 2024, the Ukrainian National Guard’s 13th Khartiia Brigade carried out a combined ground and air assault near the town of Lyptsi.
The Rival Theologies of Artificial Intelligence
Palladium Magazineby Duncan Umphrey·6 Jun 2026
Last month, Pope Leo XIV presented the papal encyclical Magnifica humanitas, laying out the Catholic Church’s definitive response to the crisis occasioned by the explosive growth of the AI...
The Burden of Discernment
Palladium Magazineby Snezana Gvozdenovic·23 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 Lifecycle of an Apocalypse
Palladium Magazineby Ben Landau-Taylor·22 Apr 2026
For as long as any of us have been alive, we have seen an ever-changing series of popular predictions for how industrial technology is about to destroy civilization.
The Peoples of America
Palladium Magazineby Rudyard William Lynch·16 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 Magazineby James Poulos·11 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...
The Total Art of Flat Design
Palladium Magazineby Daniel Miller·8 Apr 2026
If the 1990s were an era of post-historical melancholy and the 2000s an era of retromania in which the ghosts of styles from former decades were frantically revived and mobilized, the signature...
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