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

APR
3
2022
#277 — How Does the War in Ukraine End？
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 31 Hate: 37 37 minutes
Sam Harris Ian Bremmer Russian war in Ukraine ongoing war in Ukraine peace dividend
MAR
22
2022
#276 — Defending the Global Order
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 4 Hate: 12 36 minutes
Sam Harris global order and russian invasion of Ukraine
MAR
10
2022
#275 — The Russian War in Ukraine
Toxicity: 4 Hate: 9 37 minutes
Sam Harris
MAR
2
2022
Absolutely Mental Season 3
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 17 Hate: 4 49 minutes
Sam Harris dogs and allergies lies and truth in parenting situations
FEB
28
2022
Special Episode： Recipes for Future Plagues
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 7 Hate: 15 1 hour and 57 minutes
Sam Harris Deep Vision Pandemic Program gene drive deep vision's work & interfaces monitoring
FEB
11
2022
#274 — The Future of American Democracy
Misogyny: 15 Toxicity: 10 Hate: 14 2 hours and 20 minutes
Sam Harris corruption in US democracy Electoral Count Act reforms education
FEB
7
2022
#273 — Joe Rogan and the Ethics of Apology
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 10 Hate: 7 20 minutes
Sam Harris racism and friendship
JAN
31
2022
Vaccine Mandates, transgender athletes, billionaires… (AMA #19)
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 5 28 minutes
Sam Harris Vaccine Mandates and restrictions mindfulness and memories earning to give
JAN
11
2022
#272 — On Disappointing My Audience
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 25 Hate: 1 46 minutes
Sam Harris
DEC
24
2021
#271 — Earning to Give
Toxicity: 10 Hate: 2 1 hour and 15 minutes
Sam Harris effective altruism crypto arbitrage crypto trading ecosystem collapse
DEC
14
2021
#270 — What Have We Learned from the Pandemic？
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 26 Hate: 35 2 hours and 51 minutes
Sam Harris Nicholas Christakis plague responses and denial Trump Wanted pandemic strategy Trump Wanted vaccine approval process
DEC
3
2021
#269 — Deep Time
Hate: 1 39 minutes
Sam Harris
NOV
24
2021
#268 — The Limits of Self-Knowledge
Hate: 1 36 minutes
Sam Harris metacognition neuroscience self-awareness metacognition evolution
NOV
10
2021
#267 — The Kingdom of Sleep
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 3 49 minutes
Sam Harris Matthew Walker sleep tracking sleep disruptions and dementia sleep difficulties and treatments
NOV
2
2021
#266 — The Limits of Pleasure
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 31 Hate: 7 47 minutes
Sam Harris Paul Bloom pain and suffering duration neglect
OCT
27
2021
#265 — The Religion of Anti-Racism
Toxicity: 17 Hate: 15 35 minutes
Sam Harris
OCT
21
2021
#264 — Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)
Hate: 1 48 minutes
Sam Harris Anil Seth Edelman's interactions and legacy hard problem consciousness level distinctions
OCT
18
2021
#263 — The Paradox of Death
17 minutes
Sam Harris death and consciousness
OCT
5
2021
#262 — The Future of American Democracy
Toxicity: 6 Hate: 1 32 minutes
Sam Harris
SEP
30
2021
#261 — Belief & Identity
Misogyny: 2 Hate: 2 40 minutes
Sam Harris belief change and resistance