Making Sense with Sam Harris — #395 — Intellectual Authority and Its Discontents

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#395 — Intellectual Authority and Its Discontents

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris discusses the breakdown of trust in institutions, the nature of intellectual authority, the danger of bad incentives, the epidemic of conspiracy thinking and misinformation, Trump and Elon, and other topics. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all…

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