All Episodes
"Moment of Zen" — 140 episodes
Why Urban Centers Outlast Empires | Samo Burja
AI and The War for Your Attention | Antonio Garcia Martinez and Chris Hayes from the a16z Podcast
Why China and America are Creating the Same Ruling Class | Samo Burja
Hardware Wars | Samo Burja
Singapore: The City-State Strategy That Worked | Samo Burja
The Real Reason Civilizations Collapse | Samo Burja
Is Nuclear Proliferation Inevitable? | Samo Burja
The Future of Media with Noah Smith and Chris Best, CEO of Substack
Are Dynasties Better Than Meritocracies?
The Middle Class Myth and China’s Future with Noah Smith
What If Rome Had Industrialized? | Samo Burja
Can Japan Survive Its Demographic Crisis? | Samo Burja
India-Pakistan Conflict Explained | Samo Burja
The Bureaucracy War: Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar and Senator Mike Lee (UT) - Hill & Valley Forum 2025
Energy, Education, Deregulation with David Friedberg, Shaun Maguire, and Todd Young at the Hill & Valley Forum
US-China AI Race, with Anthropic, ScaleAI, & AI Fund Founders
The Myth of Automatic Progress | Samo Burja
Ross Douthat on Tech's Religious Awakening, AI, and Transhumanism
Will India Become a Global Superpower? | Samo Burja
Who Controls China When Xi Jinping Is Gone? | Samo Burja
Cartels vs. State: The Power Struggle in Mexico w/ Samo Burja
Inflation, Elon's Competence, and Changes Democrats Need to Make w/ Noah Smith
Free Speech in Europe & the Future of Western Civilization | Samo Burja
Victor Davis Hanson Predicts the Future: Trump, China, Russia, & Europe in 2030
Mapping the New Right w/ Jon Askonas
Samo Burja on the Technology That Can Create New Superpowers
Curtis Yarvin is now in the Overton Window w/ Samo Burja
Trump's Inauguration, Tech's Shifting Politics, and US GDP Growth Wall
Scott Sumner and Noah Smith Debate the China Question
Understanding Trump: From Immigration to Elon w/ Maxwell Meyer and Indian Bronson
Bronson vs Everyone: H-1B Wars, Elon, and Trump
NEW: Marc Andreessen on Trump, the vibe shift, and what’s after wokeness
E110: Samo Burja on Elon Musk, X and Political Influence [Crosspost, Live Players]
Samo Burja on the Future of the Middle East
Debating Immigration Policy w/ Indian Bronson
The Future of the Left and Advice for Progressive Billionaires
Can Populism Beat the Administrative State? | Samo Burja
Samo Burja and Rudyard Lynch | The Left's Identity Crisis and the Future of Democracy
Will Shadow President Elon Save Us? | Noah Smith
Election 101, Trump vs Kamala Check-In
Elite Human Capital, Trump vs Kamala, and Richard Hanania's Intellectual Evolution
Can Classical Liberalism Survive Wokeness? w/ Tim Urban
AI, Gambling, and Healthcare: A High-Stakes Game of 'Do Your Own Research
The Possibility of Human Extinction w/ Samo Burja
Long Ripples in History with Samo Burja and Rudyard Lynch
Cycles of Civilization with Samo Burja and Rudyard Lynch
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Talks AI, National Security, and Radical Abundance
Is AI our next nuclear threat? With Joshua Steinman and Nathan Labenz
Samo Burja's Advice for the next US president
The Future of Crypto with Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase
Trump, AI, and US-China Relations with Samuel Hammond and Nathan Labenz
Biden/Trump's legacy with Noah Smith
Brand New Balaji: Trump/Biden, Jan 6
China's Energy Strategy, Taiwan, and US-China Relations with Samo Burja
2024 Election Strategy, Education Depolarization, and UBI with Noah Smith
Trump/Biden Predictions with Richard Hanania
What's Happening in France with Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry
Balaji Srinivasan on the Fiat Crisis, China, Russia, and Conspiracy Practices
David Sacks on his Intellectual and Political journey
Joe Lonsdale on How to Solve America’s Problems
Crypto and Gaming with Carlos Pereira
Jonathan Haidt on The Social Media Theory of Everything
The Future of Media, Institutions, and Risk
Should We Accelerate or Decelerate Tech Progress?
The Future of Crypto, Social Platforms, and Descending the Tech Ladder with Mike Rainbow
Bryan Johnson on AI, Religion, and God
Crypto, Memes, and Politics with Li Jin
Curtis Yarvin on How to Build the Next NYT and Advice for Elon
Dune/Napoleon, Apple/Microsoft, TikTok, Polyamory, and Aella’s Legacy
Antonio on Social Media, Journalism, and New Religions with Parker Thompson
Will the US Have a Civil War with @WhatifAltHist's Rudyard Lynch
Dan's Intellectual Journey
A Deep Dive on Farcaster: Past, Present, and Future
Chris Dixon on the Future of the Internet, Crypto, and Web3
How to Build a Startup Now, Finding PMF, and Navigating the Idea Maze
The U.S. vs Europe, Bryan Johnson and Human Longevity
What does E/acc stand for?
2023 Recap, 2024 Predictions, Farcaster/Turpentine updates
Curtis Yarvin on Rufo, Harvard, FDR, and The Cathedral
Bill Ackman, Harvard, and What Happens Next?
Sam Harris on Populism, Inequality, and Polarization
Revisited: Moment of Zen's Origins with Marc Andreessen
Katherine Boyle and Mike Solana on Liberal Arts Debate and Saving San Francisco
Trump/Biden, Russia/Ukraine, Israel/Palestine, and US/China
Balaji Srinivasan and Nathan Labenz on How AI Will Shape the Future & AI Gods
How Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, and George Soros Reshape Society
Who Is Beff Jezos? Beff on Being Doxxed, the e/acc movement, and Crypto & AI Crossover
Dominic Cummings on Elon, Techies in Politics, and New Elitism
OpenAI Debrief, Why Liberals Become Conservatives, and Diversity in Tech
The Sam Altman Episode: OpenAI, Sam's Legacy
Balaji’s Gray Tribe, Fixing SF, and whether to start or buy a city?
Biden vs Trump in Israel, Why Younger People Support Palestine, and Why There is No International Community
MoZ gets Nuke Pilled with Packy and Julia
Antonio's Dispatch From Israel
Why this is BLM for Jews, unpacking the conflict, and predictions for Israel, Gaza, and Iran
The Hoax of the Century, Hybrid Warfare, Iran, and Israel with Jacob Siegel
Elon and the Border Crisis, the Case for Immigration, and the American Dream
Ideas from Balaji and Curtis That Changed Our Minds
Wonks vs Proles, Post Liberalism, and Politics as Religious War with Walter Russell Mead
Balaji on How the Tech Tribe Can Save Our Cities - Part 2
Balaji Srinivasan on the Tribal Lens, America’s Blunder, and His Plan to Save San Francisco
Bull/Bear Case for Vivek and Erik’s interview with Vivek Ramaswamy
Crypto Hour and IQ, the Next Great Culture War Issue
Mike Solana on Peter Thiel, the Ideal Presidential Candidate, and Culture War Losers
Religion, Canceled Thinkers, LARPing Liberalism, and The End of History
Alex Kaplan on the LK-99 Superconductor: the Drama, Democratization of Science, and Future Implications
Noah Smith on YIMBYism, California Land Use, and the Best-Run City
News News Yum Yum with Marc Andreessen
Twitter, Threads, and Remote Work with Eugene Wei
Threads vs Twitter, Zuck vs Elon, and Silicon Valley’s Civil War with Mike Solana
Affirmative Action, the Administrative State, and The Right's Victory in the Courts
Brokenism, The Borg, and Bravery with Alana Newhouse
Katherine Boyle and Mike Solana on Liberal Arts Debate, Tech Culture, and Saving San Francisco
[Bonus] Marc Andreessen and Anton Troynikov on Why AI Will Save the World
Silicon Valley's Civil War with Nadia Asparouhova
Apple and Facebook, Crypto and VR, Open vs Closed Ecosystems
Mike Solana on Twitter under Elon, Sam Altman's PR strategy, political polarization, and The Culture War's evolution
Liel Leibovitz on Israel and US politics, the Palestinian conflict, and Israel’s future
Twitter’s new CEO, Elon’s strategy vs Sam Altman’s strategy, Liberal depression, crime and prisons
Ben Smith of Semafor on tech-media hostility, and the past, present, and future of media
On Founders, Seriousness, and American Dynamism
Michelle Tandler on how to fix San Francisco
How to pick markets, why NFTs matter, what "disinformation" is actually about
Mike Solana on SF politics, tech & media fights, Tik Tok policy, and AI wars
AI open letter debate, "pausers", and what we're all scared of with AI with Anton Troynikov, Flo Crivello, and Nathan Labenz
Nic Carter on Balaji's Bet, Operation Chokepoint 2.0, and the Fed's financial crisis
Balaji Srinivasan on his $1M bet, Financial Crisis 2.0, Digital Devaluation of USD, and What Comes Next
How SVB Unraveled and Whether Crypto Can Fix Finance with Byrne Hobart
Effective Accelerationism and the AI Safety Debate with Bayeslord, Beff Jezoz, and Nathan Labenz
America as a culture exporter, Egalitarianism eats the world, and why Social Justice isn't receding
Disenfranchised men, AI Doomerism, and the Problems with Effective Altruism, with Amjad Masad
Modern cold wars with China and Russia, the new right, and tech's cultural shift w/ Noah Smith
Why is ChatGPT so woke, the arc of tech is centralization, and explaining the cathedral w/ Brian Chau
Low vs High Culture, legacy vs new institutions, WWE, & Lex Fridman w/ Aarthi and Sriram
The AI moment, AI vs crypto: a heated debate with Amjad Masad, Flo Crivello, and Nathan Labenz
The Realignment on Silicon Valley & DC, Trump vs DeSantis, and the future of media & politics
USA vs Europe, Zeihan & Fukuyama, Reforming institutions vs starting new ones, and why we started "Moment of Zen"
Amjad Masad on AGI as religion for nerds, history as a series of conspiracies, and religion as a foundation for raising your kids
Marc Andreessen on Elon, Nietzsche, and America's Thousand Year Empire
Moment of Zen E1 w/ Marc Andreessen on SBF/FTX, Twitter, and Open AI/Chat GPT