Making Sense with Sam Harris

Join neuroscientist, philosopher, and best-selling author Sam Harris as he explores important and controversial questions about the human mind, society, and current events. Sam Harris is the author of five New York Times bestsellers. His books include The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying, Waking Up, and Islam and the Future of Tolerance (with Maajid Nawaz). The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. His writing and public lectures cover a wide range of topics—neuroscience, moral philosophy, religion, meditation practice, human violence, rationality—but generally focus on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live. Harris's work has been published in more than 20 languages and has been discussed in The New York Times, Time, Scientific American, Nature, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and many other journals. He has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Economist, The Times (London), The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The Annals of Neurology, and elsewhere. Sam Harris received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.

#365 — Reality Check

Sam Harris begins by remembering his friendship with Dan Dennett. He then speaks with David Wallace-Wells...

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#364 — Facts & Values

Sam Harris revisits the central argument he made in his book, The Moral Landscape, about the reality...

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#363 — Knowledge Work

Sam Harris speaks with Cal Newport about our use of information technology and the cult of productivity....

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#362 — Six Months of War

Sam Harris speaks with Douglas Murray and Josh Szeps about the ongoing war in Gaza. They discuss public...

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#361 — Sam Bankman-Fried & Effective Altruism

Sam Harris speaks with William MacAskill about the implosion of FTX and the effect that it has had on...

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#360 — We Really Don’t Have Free Will?

Sam Harris speaks with Robert Sapolsky about the widespread belief in free will. They discuss the limits...

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#359 — Getting Used to It

Sam Harris speaks with Cass Sunstein about habituation and its consequences. They discuss habituation...

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#358 — The War in Ukraine

Sam Harris speaks with Yaroslav Trofimov about the War in Ukraine. They discuss the widespread false...

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#357 — America & World Order

Sam Harris speaks with Bret Stephens about America’s place in the world. They discuss the waning Pax...

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#356 — Islam & Freedom

Sam Harris and Rory Stewart debate whether Islam poses a unique threat to open societies. If the Making...

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#355 — A Falling World

Sam Harris speaks with Peter Zeihan about the unraveling world order. They discuss the Bretton Woods...

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#354 — Is Moral Progress a Fantasy?

Sam Harris speaks with John Gray about the possibility of moral and political progress. They discuss...

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#353 — Race & Reason

Sam Harris speaks with Coleman Hughes about race, racism, and social justice. They discuss the ideal...

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#352 — Hubris & Chaos

Sam Harris speaks with Rory Stewart about the fraying world order. They discuss the wars in Afghanistan...

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#351 — 5 Myths about Israel and the War in Gaza

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#350 — Sharing Reality

Sam Harris speaks with Jonathan Rauch and Josh Szeps about the foundations of knowledge and the fragmentation...

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#349 — Generosity, Cynicism, and the Future of Doing Good

Sam Harris speaks with Chris Anderson about generosity in the age of the Internet. They talk about the...

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#348 — The Politics of Antisemitism

Sam Harris speaks with Rabbi David Wolpe about the global response to the atrocities of October 7th,...

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#347 — Finding Sanity in 2024

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#346 — The Best Kept Secret In History?

Sam Harris speaks with Brian Muraresku about ancient mystery religions and the possible psychedelic...

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#345 — Resilience

Sam Harris speaks with Amanda Knox about her experience of having been falsely convicted and imprisoned...

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#344 — The War in Gaza

Sam Harris comments on the recent testimony of university presidents before Congress, along with Elon...

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#343 — What Is "Islamophobia"?

Sam Harris discusses the social and political consequences of a weaponized term. A transcript of this...

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#342 — Animal Minds & Moral Truths

Sam Harris speaks with Peter Singer about important problems in ethics. They discuss his career as a...

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