Charles Coulombe joins Ash Milton to discuss the rise and fall of the WASP ruling class, which he also covered in Palladium 04. America's upper class went from disparate networks of families to a national elite in only a few generations. Then, they lost it all. Topics include the WASPs' intentional cultivation of their internal culture, the decay of their ideologies and institutions, and more.
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Palladium Podcast 65: The Centralized Society
Palladium Podcast 64: The Cultivation of Elites
Palladium Podcast 63: Chinese High Modernity
Palladium Podcast 62: Michael Zargham on Society As a Complex System
Palladium Podcast 61: Viren Murthy on Japan, China, and an Asian World Order
Palladium Podcast 60: Jesse Velay-Vitow on the Future of Industrial Ecology
Palladium Podcast 59: Samo Burja on Long History
Palladium Podcast 58: Will Crypto Eat the World?
Palladium Podcast 57: The Moral Logic of Industrial Progress
Palladium Podcast 56: Cults Move Civilization
Palladium Podcast 55: Liberalism Is the Liberality of Power
Palladium Podcast 54: Recuperating the GameStop Rebellion
Palladium Podcast 53: The First Planet We're Terraforming Is Earth
Palladium Podcast 52: Mike Solana on Learning How to Change San Francisco
Palladium Podcast 51: Building a Developmentalist Class
Palladium Podcast 50: The Posthumanist Hypothesis
Palladium Podcast 49: Humane Computing with Urbit
Palladium Podcast 48: The American Ideal of Progress
Digital Salon with Nicholas Christakis: Pandemics and Human Nature
Palladium Podcast 47: The Social Role of Billionaires
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