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Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

Join neuroscientist, philosopher, and five-time New York Times best-selling author Sam Harris as he explores important and controversial questions about the mind, society, current events, moral philosophy, religion, and rationality—with an overarching focus on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is…

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Making Sense with Sam Harris

#494 — A Coin Toss for the Future

#493 — Two Reasons to Meditate

#492 — The Second Plane, 25 Years Later

#491 — The Suicide of the Left

#490 — Lies, Bulls**t, and the Rule of Law

#489 — More From Sam: A Fabulist at Cambridge, the Strait of Hormuz, AOC in 2028, and More

#150 — The Map of Misunderstanding (From the Archive)

#488 — Ego, Ecstasy, and Equanimity

#487 — Is AI Already Conscious?

#486 — Luck All the Way Down

#485 — The New Science of Cancer

#484 — Artificial Intimacy

#483 — The Knots We Tie Ourselves Into

#482 — More From Sam: The Iran Deal, College in the AI Age, Mamdani's DSA, and More

#481 — Sam Harris Receives the 2026 Richard Dawkins Award

#480 — The Economics of Everything

#479 — When Robots Take Over

#478 — The Psychedelic Mind

#477 — More From Sam: Iran's Unraveling, The Gaza Information War, AI-Generated Music, and More

#476 — The Bittersweet Age

#475 — The Hard Problem of Consciousness

#474 — More From Sam: Hasan Piker, Islamism, Making Sense Community, and More

#473 — Money, Power, and Moral Failure

#472 — Strange Days on the Right

#471 — The End of History, Revisited

#470 — Democrats at a Crossroads

#469 — Escaping an Anti-Human Future

#468 — More From Sam: Gratitude, Bad Conversations, Conspiracy Addiction, Waffle House Teleportation, and More

#467 — EA, AI, and the End of Work

#466 — What Is Technology Doing to Us?

#465 — More From Sam: Iran, Jihadism, Conspiracism, AI Disruption, the Manosphere, and More

#464 — The Politics of Pragmatism and the Future of California

#463 — Privatizing the Apocalypse

#462 — More From Sam: The Iran War, American Amorality, Addressing Hopelessness, Tucker, and More

#461 — Dictators Always Tell You What They'll Do

#460 — When the Center Cannot Hold

#459 — More From Sam: Corruption, Immigration, The End of White-Collar Work, and More

#458 — The Bulwark Against MAGA

#457 — More From Sam: The Epstein Files, The Newsom Factor, Don Lemon's Arrest, AI Market Disruption, and More

#456 — American Fascism

#455 — More From Sam: Guns, Propaganda, AI, and Power Unbound

#454 — More From Sam: Minnesota, Greenland, Iran, S**thole Countries, and More

#453 — AI and the New Face of Antisemitism

#452 — Is Wokeness Finally Dead?

#451 — The One Resolution That Matters Most

#450 — More From Sam: Resolutions, Conspiracies, Demonology, and the Fate of the World

#449 — Dogma, Tribe, and Truth

#448 — The Philosophy of Good and Evil

#447 — The Unraveling of American Power

#446 — How to Do the Most Good

#445 — More From Sam: Marjorie Taylor Greene, Billionaires, Thanksgiving Political Debates, & Rapid Fire Questions

#444 — America's Zombie Democracy

#443 — What Is Christian Nationalism?

#442 — More From Sam: Public Speaking, Nuclear War, & Christian Nationalism

#441 — The Threat of Civil War

#440 — A World in Crisis

#439 — How to Lose a Democracy

#438 — "More From Sam": Israel-Hamas Deal, Qatari Air Force Base, Trump, Charlie Kirk, Ezra Klein, & Rapid Fire Questions

#437 — Two Years Since 10/7

#436 — A Crisis of Trust

#435 — The Last Invention

#434 — Can We Survive AI?

#433 — How Did We Get Here?

#432 — The Undoing of America

#431 — What Is Happening on College Campuses?

#430 — "More From Sam": Trump, Gavin Newsom, Class War, DOGE, & Rapid Fire Questions

#429 — The New World Order

#428 — Political Extremism

#427 — AI Friends & Enemies

#426 — How Bad Is It?

#425 — Are We Prepared for the Next Pandemic?

#424 — "More From Sam": Nazi Grok, ICE, Epstein, Social Media, Rapid Fire Questions

#423 — "More From Sam": Democracy, Populism, Wealth Inequality, News-Induced Anxiety, & Rapid Fire Questions

#422 — Zionism & Jihadism

#421 — "More From Sam": Political Violence, Iran, Deportations, Protests, & Rapid Fire Questions

#420 — Countdown to Superintelligence

#419 — "More From Sam": Elon vs. Trump, Religion, Jordan Peterson, & Rapid Fire Questions

#418 — A Future for Democrats

#417 — Philosophy for Life