Making Sense - Sam Harris


Show info


Episodes

522

Total time

391 hours and 14 minutes

Oldest episode

November 12, 2013

Most recent

October 09, 2026

Avg. length

46 minutes

Avg. words/min

167

Avg. word count

7,717

Avg. sentences

402.6

Avg. harmful content per episode

Misogyny

3.4

sentences flagged

Toxicity

12.8

sentences flagged

Hate speech

13.3

sentences flagged


Topics & people

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Topics
wealth inequality identity politics alignment problem consciousness mindfulness mindfulness practice Edelman's interactions and legacy Islamophobia attention neuroscience cancel culture climate change cognitive empathy consciousness emergence consciousness level distinctions consciousness mystery death and impermanence dogmatism earning to give existential risk extended phenotype
Hosts
Sam Harris (522)
Guests
Nicholas Christakis (5) David Frum (3) Graham Wood (3) Jonah Goldberg (3) Jonathan Haidt (3) Sam Harris (3) Siddhartha Mukherjee (3) Anil Seth (2) Ann Applebaum (2) Cass Sunstein (2) David Edmonds (2) Douglas Murray (2) Eliezer Yudkowsky (2) Gabriel Dance (2) Gary Kasparov (2) Jordan Peterson (2) Max Tegmark (2) Michael Weiss (2) Neil Ferguson (2) Nick Bostrom (2)
Mentioned
Donald Trump (112) Trump (92) Hillary Clinton (54) Obama (53) Waking (45) Hitler (43) Joe Biden (43) Biden (42) Elon Musk (39) Joe Rogan (36) Tucker Carlson (36) Alex Jones (35) Steven Pinker (31) Putin (29) Richard Dawkins (26) Christopher Hitchens (25) Vladimir Putin (24) Ayaan Hirsi Ali (23) George W. Bush (23) Majid Nawaz (23) Bill Maher (22) Nick Bostrom (22) Clinton (21) Hunter Biden (20) Peter Singer (20)
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Episodes

OCT
9
2026
#497 — The Confidence Man
21 minutes
Sam Harris Alex Gibney
OCT
7
2026
#496 — The Oldest Lie
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 35 Hate: 170 1 hour and 40 minutes
Sam Harris Dara Horne
OCT
1
2026
#495 — Foreign Policy for Sale
Hate: 18 18 minutes
Sam Harris
SEP
24
2026
#494 — A Coin Toss for the Future
Toxicity: 2 27 minutes
Sam Harris
SEP
17
2026
#493 — Two Reasons to Meditate
13 minutes
Sam Harris
SEP
9
2026
#492 — The Second Plane, 25 Years Later
Misogyny: 4 Toxicity: 16 Hate: 62 37 minutes
Sam Harris Islamo-leftism and its consequences social media backlash
SEP
1
2026
#491 — The Suicide of the Left
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 5 Hate: 25 25 minutes
Sam Harris DSA and Democratic politics
AUG
25
2026
#490 — Lies, Bulls＊＊t, and the Rule of Law
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 21 Hate: 6 23 minutes
Sam Harris
AUG
21
2026
#489 — More From Sam： A Fabulist at Cambridge, the Strait of Hormuz, AOC in 2028, and More
Toxicity: 14 Hate: 17 23 minutes
Sam Harris gain-of-function research in Wuhan labs
AUG
11
2026
#150 — The Map of Misunderstanding (From the Archive)
Toxicity: 7 Hate: 2 47 minutes
Sam Harris moral response to suffering cognitive ease and confabulation loss aversion
AUG
4
2026
#488 — Ego, Ecstasy, and Equanimity
Misogyny: 9 Toxicity: 8 Hate: 6 12 minutes
Sam Harris
JUL
31
2026
#487 — Is AI Already Conscious？
Toxicity: 2 Hate: 6 1 hour and 25 minutes
Sam Harris consciousness in AI consciousness in LLMs consciousness
JUL
22
2026
#486 — Luck All the Way Down
Hate: 4 21 minutes
Sam Harris behavioral genetics controversy
JUL
14
2026
#485 — The New Science of Cancer
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 1 Hate: 5 1 hour and 21 minutes
Sam Harris Siddhartha Mukherjee cancer mutations treatments pathways prevention science problems particulate air pollution and asbestos carcinogenesis
JUL
8
2026
#484 — Artificial Intimacy
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 1 Hate: 11 27 minutes
Sam Harris loneliness and AI attention loneliness chatbots elderly
JUL
1
2026
#483 — The Knots We Tie Ourselves Into
Hate: 4 22 minutes
Sam Harris Alain psychedelics exploration
JUN
25
2026
#482 — More From Sam： The Iran Deal, College in the AI Age, Mamdani's DSA, and More
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 1 Hate: 1 21 minutes
Sam Harris global political unification populist wave and wealth inequality college experience
JUN
17
2026
#481 — Sam Harris Receives the 2026 Richard Dawkins Award
Toxicity: 13 Hate: 6 54 minutes
Sam Harris pain and suffering consciousness emergence corruption tolerance Trump supporters
JUN
12
2026
#480 — The Economics of Everything
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 1 Hate: 3 24 minutes
Sam Harris
JUN
4
2026
#479 — When Robots Take Over
Hate: 3 14 minutes
Sam Harris AI and its political implications wealth inequality