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

APR
20
2023
#317 — What Do We Know About Our Minds？
Toxicity: 11 Hate: 7 1 hour and 8 minutes
Sam Harris
APR
14
2023
#316 — Self-Defense： Reality and Fantasy
Misogyny: 5 Toxicity: 10 Hate: 4 54 minutes
Sam Harris
APR
7
2023
#315 — The Great Derangement
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 26 Hate: 4 59 minutes
Sam Harris
MAR
31
2023
#314 — The Cancellation of J.K. Rowling
Misogyny: 15 Toxicity: 13 Hate: 17 54 minutes
Sam Harris language politics
MAR
25
2023
#313 — Apocalypse
Toxicity: 1 Hate: 11 35 minutes
Sam Harris
MAR
7
2023
#312 — The Trouble with AI
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 2 Hate: 5 1 hour and 26 minutes
Sam Harris
FEB
20
2023
#311 — Did SARS-CoV-2 Escape from a Lab？
Misogyny: 8 Toxicity: 9 Hate: 16 58 minutes
Sam Harris Matt Ridley gain-of-function research
FEB
1
2023
#310 — Social Media & Public Trust
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 4 Hate: 5 1 hour and 8 minutes
Sam Harris twitter files
JAN
20
2023
#309 — Vulnerability, Politics, and Moral Worth
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 6 Hate: 4 45 minutes
Sam Harris Martha Nussbaum vulnerability emotions in Stoicism emotions and neuroscience
JAN
11
2023
#308 — The Long Game
Toxicity: 1 Hate: 1 34 minutes
Sam Harris
DEC
30
2022
#307 — Twitter, Elon, & Free Speech
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 30 Hate: 5 27 minutes
Sam Harris Twitter Twitter suspension outrage
DEC
13
2022
#306 — Psychedelics & Mortality
Toxicity: 2 Hate: 1 1 hour and 45 minutes
Sam Harris Roland Griffiths endowment project for psychedelic research psychedelics schizophrenia risks psilocybin and meditation effects
DEC
8
2022
#305 — Moral Knowledge
Hate: 5 1 hour and 7 minutes
Sam Harris
NOV
28
2022
#304 — Why I Left Twitter
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 15 Hate: 4 1 hour and 9 minutes
Sam Harris
NOV
15
2022
#303 — The Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 14 Hate: 5 20 minutes
Sam Harris effective altruism principles
NOV
11
2022
#302 — Science & Civilization
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 2 Hate: 3 49 minutes
Sam Harris
OCT
25
2022
#301 — The Politics of Unreality： Ukraine and Nuclear Risk
Misogyny: 4 Toxicity: 20 Hate: 27 1 hour
Sam Harris
OCT
12
2022
#300 — A Tale of Cancellation
Misogyny: 32 Toxicity: 107 Hate: 88 3 hours and 8 minutes
Sam Harris
OCT
3
2022
#299 — Steps in the Right Direction
Misogyny: 1 Hate: 1 40 minutes
Sam Harris economics limitations decision analysis and ethics
SEP
29
2022
#298 — Leaving the Faith (Rebroadcast)
Misogyny: 44 Toxicity: 61 Hate: 61 1 hour and 20 minutes
Sam Harris Yasmin Mohamed forced marriage in Egypt hijab racism and cultural norms