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

SEP
24
2021
Absolutely Mental Season Two
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 7 Hate: 2 16 minutes
Sam Harris pain suppression under hypnosis
SEP
20
2021
Ask Me Anything #18
Toxicity: 3 Hate: 2 28 minutes
Sam Harris
SEP
9
2021
#260 — The Second Plane
Toxicity: 4 Hate: 3 16 minutes
Sam Harris 9-11 horrors
SEP
1
2021
#259 — The Reckoning to Come
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 6 Hate: 10 1 hour and 12 minutes
Sam Harris
AUG
23
2021
#258 — The Fall of Afghanistan
Misogyny: 4 Toxicity: 8 Hate: 26 46 minutes
Sam Harris fall of afghanistan
AUG
13
2021
#257 — The State of the World
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 1 Hate: 7 1 hour and 1 minute
Sam Harris wealth inequality
AUG
8
2021
Ask Me Anything #17
Toxicity: 6 Hate: 5 24 minutes
Sam Harris
JUL
23
2021
#256 — A Contagion of Bad Ideas
Misogyny: 4 Toxicity: 12 Hate: 8 1 hour and 26 minutes
Sam Harris Vaccine Hesitant Vaccine Hesitant arguments Vaccine Hesitant
JUL
9
2021
#255 — The Future of Intelligence
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 1 Hate: 6 58 minutes
Sam Harris Jeff Hawkins alignment problem funding neuroscience intelligence neuroscience model brain
JUN
25
2021
#254 — The Mating Strategies of Earthlings
Misogyny: 34 Toxicity: 1 Hate: 15 49 minutes
Sam Harris mate preferences and infidelity
JUN
17
2021
#253 — Corporate Courage
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 38 Hate: 7 44 minutes
Sam Harris Jason Fried no_politics_policy_at_Basecamp work politics ADL Pyramid of Hate
JUN
10
2021
#252 — Are We Alone in the Universe？
Toxicity: 10 Hate: 9 51 minutes
Sam Harris whether or not we are alone in the universe Cosmic Queries book carbon diversity chemistry
MAY
26
2021
#251 — Corporate Cowardice
Misogyny: 14 Toxicity: 23 Hate: 18 39 minutes
Sam Harris
MAY
21
2021
#250 — Broken Conversations
Misogyny: 11 Toxicity: 19 Hate: 19 45 minutes
Sam Harris Jesse Singel fragmentation of media
MAY
14
2021
#249 — Distance & Arrival
Toxicity: 2 Hate: 1 33 minutes
Sam Harris
APR
30
2021
#248 — Order & Freedom
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 3 Hate: 1 38 minutes
Sam Harris Michelle Gelfand rulemakers vs rule breakers culture social norms
APR
24
2021
Special Episode： Engineering the Apocalypse
Misogyny: 8 Toxicity: 9 Hate: 35 3 hours and 41 minutes
Sam Harris gain-of-function research Sinbio technology hardening syn-bio infrastructure
APR
22
2021
#247 — Constructing Minds
Misogyny: 1 1 hour and 7 minutes
Sam Harris Engineering the Apocalypse regulating the body
APR
16
2021
#246 — Police Training & Police Misconduct
Misogyny: 9 Toxicity: 19 Hate: 6 1 hour and 41 minutes
Sam Harris Henner Gracie police training & misconduct police training PD gap viral videos
APR
12
2021
#245 — Can We Talk About Scary Ideas？
Misogyny: 3 Hate: 2 42 minutes
Sam Harris