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.

#396 — The Way Forward

Sam Harris speaks with Matthew Yglesias about the future of Democratic politics. They discuss where...

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#395 — Intellectual Authority and Its Discontents

Sam Harris discusses the breakdown of trust in institutions, the nature of intellectual authority, the...

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#394 — Bringing Back the Mammoth

Sam Harris speaks with Ben Lamm about his work at Colossal Biosciences. They discuss his efforts to...

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#393 — Is History Repeating Itself?

Sam Harris speaks with Simon Sebag Montefiore about the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, the history...

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#392 — Technology & Culture

Sam Harris speaks with Christine Rosen about how technology is changing our culture. They discuss the...

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#391 — The Reckoning

Sam Harris discusses the result of the 2024 presidential election, the lessons that the Democratic Party...

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#390 — Final Thoughts on the 2024 Presidential Election

Sam Harris speaks with Mark Cuban about the 2024 presidential election. They discuss Trump’s ethics,...

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#389 — The Politics of Risk

Sam Harris speaks with Nate Silver about cultural attitudes toward risk and the state of American politics....

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#388 — What Is Life?

Sam Harris speaks with Sara Imari Walker about a scientific understanding of life. They discuss the...

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#387 — Politics & Power

Sam Harris speaks with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel about the state of world order and American politics....

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#386 — Information & Social Order

Sam Harris speaks with Yuval Noah Harari about his new book, Nexus, and its application to current crises....

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#385 — AI Utopia

Sam Harris speaks with Nick Bostrom about ongoing progress in artificial intelligence. They discuss...

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#384 — Stress Testing Our Democracy

Sam Harris speaks with Barton Gellman about election integrity and the safeguarding of American democracy....

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#383 — Where Are the Grown-Ups?

Sam Harris talks about the recent assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the cesspool of X, Tucker Carlson’s...

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#382 — The Eye of Nature

Sam Harris speaks with Richard Dawkins about his new book The Genetic Book of the Dead, the genome as...

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#381 — Delusions, Right and Left

Sam Harris speaks with “Destiny” (Steven Bonnell) about politics and public debate. They discuss...

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#380 — The Roots of Attention

Sam Harris speaks with Amishi Jha about attention and the brain. They discuss how attention is studied,...

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#379 — Regulating Artificial Intelligence

Sam Harris speaks with Yoshua Bengio and Scott Wiener about AI risk and the new bill introduced in California...

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#378 — Digital Delusions

Sam Harris speaks with Renée DiResta about the state of our information landscape. They discuss the...

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#377 — The Future of Psychedelic Medicine

Sam Harris speaks with Dr. Jennifer Mitchell and Dr. Sarah Abedi about recent developments in research...

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#376 — How Democracies Fail

Sam Harris and Anne Applebaum discuss the nature of modern autocracies and how democracies fail. They...

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#375 — On the Attempted Assassination of President Trump

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#374 — Consciousness and the Physical World

Sam Harris speaks with Christof Koch about the nature of consciousness. They discuss Christof’s development...

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#373 — Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism

Sam Harris speaks with Michal Cotler-Wunsh about the global rise of antisemitism. They discuss the bias...

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