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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Hosts, guests, and mentioned names generated with spaCy (en_core_web_sm), reconciled against Wikidata.

Episodes

SEP
23
2022
#297 — Preparing for the End
Misogyny: 8 Toxicity: 38 Hate: 12 1 hour and 4 minutes
Sam Harris preparing for death
SEP
13
2022
#296 — Repairing Our Country
Misogyny: 5 Toxicity: 11 Hate: 6 43 minutes
Sam Harris
SEP
9
2022
#295 — Philosophy and the Good Life
Misogyny: 1 Hate: 3 44 minutes
Sam Harris
AUG
31
2022
#294 — Status Games
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 7 Hate: 5 40 minutes
Sam Harris status games status game
AUG
25
2022
#293 — What I Really Think About Trump and Media Bias
Misogyny: 4 Toxicity: 57 Hate: 18 43 minutes
Sam Harris peaceful transfer of power
AUG
14
2022
#292 — How Much Does the Future Matter？
Misogyny: 6 Toxicity: 28 Hate: 14 2 hours
Sam Harris
JUL
28
2022
#291 — Where is Happiness？
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 6 Hate: 2 1 hour and 4 minutes
Sam Harris
JUL
21
2022
#290 — What Went Wrong？
Toxicity: 4 Hate: 1 48 minutes
Sam Harris
JUL
18
2022
#289 — Time Management for Mortals
Toxicity: 1 38 minutes
Sam Harris time management for mortals
JUL
14
2022
#288 — The End of Global Order
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 2 Hate: 20 54 minutes
Sam Harris deglobalization and demographics demographic collapse
JUL
5
2022
#287 — Why Wealth Matters
Misogyny: 15 Toxicity: 14 Hate: 9 50 minutes
Sam Harris wealth inequality and happiness
JUN
28
2022
#286 — The Paradox of Psychedelics
Misogyny: 7 Toxicity: 13 Hate: 3 41 minutes
Sam Harris mindfulness
JUN
24
2022
#285 — American Division
Misogyny: 3 Hate: 7 46 minutes
Sam Harris american division threat secession
JUN
7
2022
#284 — The Funny Business
Misogyny: 5 Toxicity: 5 Hate: 1 40 minutes
Sam Harris
MAY
30
2022
#283 — Gun Violence in America
Misogyny: 7 Toxicity: 109 Hate: 24 1 hour and 34 minutes
Sam Harris Graham Wood guns and violence in America school shootings guns in different cultures
MAY
23
2022
#282 — Do You Really Have a Self？
Hate: 3 54 minutes
Sam Harris free agency
MAY
2
2022
#281 — Western Culture and Its Discontents
Misogyny: 5 Toxicity: 42 Hate: 11 1 hour and 12 minutes
Sam Harris doxing and social media moderation Hunter Laptop scandal Laptop from Hell
APR
22
2022
#280 — The Future of Artificial Intelligence
Toxicity: 2 Hate: 3 37 minutes
Sam Harris Eric Schmidt explainability problems AI and social manipulation experiments AI in science simulations
APR
18
2022
#279 — The Rules of the Stage
Misogyny: 7 Toxicity: 11 Hate: 4 35 minutes
Sam Harris
APR
13
2022
#278 — The Man Who Will Be King
Misogyny: 6 Toxicity: 4 Hate: 12 37 minutes
Sam Harris mbs and saudi reforms