Arjun Khemani

Arjun Khemani Podcast

Society EN ↓ 45 episodes

A podcast about progress, philosophy, science, education, and the unconstrained human condition. www.arjunkhemani.com

Author

Arjun Khemani

Category

Society

Podcast website

www.arjunkhemani.com

Latest episode

Jul 1, 2026

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Episodes

David D. Friedman: Death, Taxes, and Other Solvable Problems 01.07.2026

David D. Friedman is an anarcho-capitalist economist. He is the author of The Machinery of Freedom, Future Imperfect, and several other books. Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below. Watch on YouTube or X . Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future episodes. Timestamps 0:00 – The economics of longevity 8:05 – Epige...

Sean Bowe and Dev Ojha: Architecture of Freedom 04.04.2026

Sean Bowe is a core cryptographer and engineer who played a major role in building Zcash’s technology. Dev Ojha, also a cryptographer, is the founder of Osmosis. He is now working on helping Zcash scale and go post quantum. Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below. Watch on YouTube or X . Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for upda...

Sean Bowe and Jack Grigg: Encrypted Money at Planetary Scale 11.10.2025

Sean Bowe and Jack Grigg aka str4d are both cryptographic engineers working on the Zcash protocol. Sean’s latest project is Tachyon, intended to bring encrypted money into the hands of 8 billion people. Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below. Watch on YouTube or X . Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future episode...

Samo Burja: Building an Immortal Society 11.07.2025

My conversation with Samo Burja, founder of Bismarck Analysis. He chairs the editorial board of Palladium Magazine. Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below. Watch on YouTube or X . Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future episodes. Click here to support my work. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 1:18 - Live players 5:41 - Gr...

Zooko Wilcox and Josh Swihart: Unstoppable Private Money 03.06.2025

My conversation with Zooko Wilcox and Josh Swihart on unstoppable private money. Zooko Wilcox is a legendary cypherpunk and one of the founders of Zcash—private, digital money. Josh Swihart is the CEO of Electric Coin Company, the team behind the Zcash protocol and the Zashi wallet app. Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below. Watch on YouTube or X . Listen on Apple Podcasts ,...

Ethan Thornton: The Future of Warfare 15.03.2025

My conversation with Ethan Thornton, founder of Mach Industries . Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below. Watch on YouTube or X . Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future episodes. Click here to support my work. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 1:07 - Why Mach needs to exist 3:16 - Early experiments 5:07 - Dropping out of...

Peter Boghossian: Moral Relativism and The Future of The West 26.02.2025

My conversation with philosopher and author Peter Boghossian. Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below. Watch on YouTube or X . Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future episodes. Click here to support my work. Timestamps 0:00 - The enlightenment 5:51 - The dangers of moral relativism 21:28 - Modern education is fail...

Zooko, Nate Wilcox, and Sean Bowe: Zcash 22.01.2025

My conversation with Zooko, Nate Wilcox, and Sean Bowe about the Zcash protocol. Zooko is a cypherpunk who co-founded Zcash along with his brother, Nate Wilcox, and others. Sean Bowe is a cryptographer and engineer who has played a crucial role in the development of Zcash and has made significant contributions to advancements in zero-knowledge proofs, particularly zk-SNARKs, which underpin Zcash’s...

Naval Ravikant: The Beginning of Infinity 18.12.2024

My conversation with Naval Ravikant. Enjoy! Watch on YouTube or X . Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Click here to support my work. Timestamps 0:00 - The Theory of Everything 4:48 - How do you know what’s true? 7:51 - Groups search for consensus, individuals search for truth 13:07 - We have never run out of a single resource 15:25 - Are we destroying the Earth? 17:48 - Marxism denies wealth c...

David Deutsch: The Era of Man, Popper, and Western Civilization 11.11.2024

I had the pleasure of sitting down with David Deutsch in his lovely garden in Oxford a few months ago. Here’s our conversation. Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below. Watch on  YouTube or X . Listen on  Apple Podcasts ,  Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future episodes. Click here to support my work. Timestamps 1:01 - A tragic view of hum...

#35 – Julian Barbour and Samuel Kuypers: The Nature of Time 15.09.2024

Julian Barbour is a renowned physicist known for his groundbreaking work on the nature of time. In his influential books, The End of Time and The Janus Point he explores the concept of a timeless universe, challenging traditional views. Samuel Kuypers is a theoretical physicist, currently located in Montréal, who is interested in the foundations of quantum theory and time. Topics we discuss are we...

#34 – Nat Eliason: Crypto Confidential, Writing, and The Future of Work 26.07.2024

Click here to support my work. You can also send me bitcoin to this address . Nat Eliason is a writer and crypto insider with a wildly popular newsletter and podcast. He is the author of the book Crypto Confidential: Winning and Losing Millions in the New Frontier of Finance . Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below. Watch on  YouTube or X . Listen on  Apple Podcasts ,  Spotify...

#33 – Johan Norberg: Capitalism, Degrowth, and Elon Musk 16.07.2024

Johan Norberg is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a writer who focuses on globalization, human progress and intellectual history. He is the author of In Defense of Global Capitalism , Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future , and The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World . Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below. I hope you en...

#32 – Riva Tez: Anarchy, Beauty, and Longevity 04.07.2024

Riva Tez is a philosopher, writer, and venture capitalist. She’s the author of the blog Hard to Write . Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I enjoyed recording it! Watch on  YouTube or X . Listen on  Apple Podcasts ,  Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future episodes. Click here to support my wor...

#31 – Nicole Behnam: Leveraging Social Media, Building Cults, and Parenting 25.06.2024

Nicole Behnam is a founder and journalist. She is the creator of Beyond The Interview where she’s interviewed people like Chris Voss, Konstantin Kisin, and Robert Greene. Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below. Watch on  YouTube or X . Listen on  Apple Podcasts ,  Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future episodes. Click here to support my w...

#30 – Niklas Anzinger: Longevity, Crypto, and Network States 05.06.2024

Niklas Anzinger is the founder of Infinita VC and Vitalia . He is also the host of the Stranded Technologies Podcast. Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below. Watch on  YouTube or X . Listen on  Apple Podcasts ,  Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future episodes. Click here to support my work. Timestamps 0:32 - Building Vitalia and Infinita...

#29 – Ashley St. Clair: Immigration Crisis, Free Speech, and Birth Control 14.05.2024

Ashley St. Clair is the Operations Manager at Babylon Bee and author of the children’s book Elephants Are Not Birds . This interview was recorded on Airchat . Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below. Watch on  YouTube or X . Listen on  Apple Podcasts ,  Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future episodes. Click here to support my work. Timesta...

#28 – Matthew Lysiak: Fiat Food, Bitcoin, and Fake Science 06.05.2024

Matthew Lysiak is an investigative journalist and author of Fiat Food: Why Inflation Destroyed Our Health and How Bitcoin Fixes It . Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below. Watch on  YouTube or X . Listen on  Apple Podcasts ,  Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future episodes. Click here to support my work. Timestamps 0:49 - Why Matthew wro...

#27 – Farbood Nivi: Follistatin Gene Therapy, E/Acc, and Following Your Heart 23.03.2024

Farbood Nivi is the founder of Grockit (acquired by Kaplan in 2013). He has been biohacking for 25 years. Recently, he became one of the first 200 people in the world to receive Follistatin gene therapy. Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below. Watch on  YouTube or X . Listen on  Apple Podcasts ,  Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Follow me on X for updates on future epi...

#26 – Jeremy Shearmur: Epistemology, Austrian economics, and The Life of Karl Popper 14.02.2024

Jeremy Shearmur is a fellow emeritus in philosophy at the Australian National University. He is the author of Hayek and After and The Political Thought of Karl Popper . He also worked as assistant to Karl Popper for eight years. Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below. Watch on  YouTube or X . Listen on  Apple Podcasts ,  Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Read the full t...

#25 – David Deutsch: Free-Will, Taking Children Seriously, and Anarcho-Capitalism 01.01.2024

David Deutsch is the author of The Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity. He works on fundamental issues in physics, particularly the quantum theory of computation and information, and constructor theory . He is known as the father of quantum computing for his contributions to the field. He is an advocate of Taking Children Seriously , a new, non-paternalistic view of children. Topics we...

#24 – Max More: Cryonics, Transhumanism, and The Morality of Progress 05.11.2023

If you would like to support this podcast, click here . Max More is a philosopher, futurist, and former CEO of Alcor Life Extension Foundation. He is currently Director of Communications at Biostasis Technologies. Max wrote the first definition of “Transhumanism” in its modern sense. TIMESTAMPS 0:45 - Why Max changed his last name to “More” 2:45 - Max’s early life and interest in cryonics and life...

#23 – Tom Hyde: Population, Immortality, Anarchism, and Gender 24.09.2023

If you would like to support this podcast, click here . Bitcoin donations at: bc1q3vajy7e79080uzg5j7watdtl2h7ktqx9l7x8w8 Tom Hyde is a geologist with degrees in geoscience and natural hazards. In addition to his academic background, Tom has a keen interest in the scientific and philosophical works of Karl Popper and David Deutsch, as well as in libertarianism, climate and risk, gender theory, aest...

#22 – Per Bylund: Economic Illiteracy, Entrepreneurship, and The Primacy of Theory 20.09.2023

If you would like to support this podcast, click here . Bitcoin donations at: bc1q3vajy7e79080uzg5j7watdtl2h7ktqx9l7x8w8 Per Bylund is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University and a Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute. His latest book, How to Think about the Economy: A Primer , serves as an introduction to economic reasoning and aims to improve economic literacy. TI...

#21 – David D. Friedman: The Machinery of Freedom, Education, and India 01.09.2023

Support this podcast: buymeacoffee.com/arjunkhemani David D. Friedman is an anarcho-capitalist economist, author of ‘The Machinery of Freedom’, and son of Milton Friedman. TIMESTAMPS 0:44 - 50 years of The Machinery of Freedom 3:35 - What is a government? 9:22 - How law could be produced and enforced in an anarcho-capitalist society 12:00 - Laws produced by the market will be biased toward freedom...

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