Palladium – Governance Futurism

Yales legendary secret society used to train powerful elites. But it could only reflect elite culture, not define it.

Lebanons state is collapsing under the weight of its own dysfunction. Visiting its capital, I found a gallery of street art, urban wreckage, and political nihilism.

Our approach to education is reproducing societys worst neuroses. The alternative isnt institutional reform, but a different consciousness.

Both China and the West are embracing scientific population management driven by digital technologies. Why have they given up on mobilizing their populations?

The party cadre Jiao Yulu embodied a Chinese political culture with room for experiments and risk-taking. Xis turn to digital technocracy may threaten its survival.

Geremie Barm joins Ash Milton to discuss his experiences in China during the Cultural Revolution and what prior upheavals can teach us about the Xi era.

Americas elite universities have an aristocratic mission. The Confucian tradition has lessons for how to achieve it.

While in Lebanon to report on a disintegrating state, I found Hezbollah building a different kind of regime.

One mans thought has become pivotal in Chinas new political and cultural crackdowns. That man is not Xi Jinping.

Kevin Kelly joins the salon to discuss his new book and photographic travelogue: Vanishing Asia. Other topics include why history matters for futurists and why Kevin doesnt regret the vanishing of the past.

For several centuries, life has become increasingly monitored, legible, and uniform. Can we endure our centralized societies?

Sci-Hub has become foundational for scientific research. What if we didnt need it at all?

Xi wants to guide Chinas thinkers with a clear party line. But that line is just one rallying point in a complex intellectual ecology.

Wolf Tivy and Ash Milton discuss what defines elites and why we are stuck with an upper middle class today instead.

While in Tokyo for the Summer Olympics, I instead saw the spectacle of Japans aspiring new elites.

Wolf Tivy and Ash Milton discuss Chinas role in industrial civilization and what we can learn from it.

The Japanese Empire founded Kenkoku University to create new pan-Asian elites. Despite their own defeat, they succeeded.

In the midst of Japans chaotic Sengoku era, a radical Buddhist sect carved out a new regime. Then came the real test.

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Palladium - Governance Futurism