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
6
2021
#244 — Food, Climate, and Pandemic Risk
Misogyny: 1 Hate: 8 1 hour and 12 minutes
Sam Harris Bruce Friedrich reconstituting meat from plants clean meat psychology
MAR
28
2021
#243 — A Few Points of Confusion
Toxicity: 6 Hate: 1 10 minutes
Sam Harris race politics
MAR
23
2021
#242 — Psychedelics and the Self
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 9 Hate: 9 1 hour and 3 minutes
Sam Harris James Fadiman psilocybin experience guide preparation
MAR
12
2021
#241 — Final Thoughts on Free Will
43 minutes
Sam Harris choices matter
MAR
7
2021
#240 — The Boundaries of Self
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 2 Hate: 1 43 minutes
Sam Harris friendship with oneself honesty and vulnerability
FEB
24
2021
#239 — Yet Another Call from Ricky Gervais
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 13 Hate: 12 21 minutes
Sam Harris
FEB
23
2021
#238 — How to Build a Universe
Toxicity: 1 Hate: 2 59 minutes
Sam Harris Frank Wilczek time and possibility in physics special relativity space-time continuum
FEB
16
2021
#237 — Another Call from Ricky Gervais
Misogyny: 13 Toxicity: 32 Hate: 18 42 minutes
Sam Harris golden globes jokes
FEB
11
2021
#236 — Rebooting New York City
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 4 Hate: 3 48 minutes
Sam Harris
FEB
10
2021
#235 — A Call from Ricky Gervais
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 15 Hate: 4 29 minutes
Sam Harris
FEB
5
2021
#234 — The Divided Mind
Misogyny: 6 Toxicity: 6 Hate: 6 55 minutes
Sam Harris Ian McGilchrist
FEB
2
2021
#233 — The Groves of Misinformation
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 5 Hate: 7 51 minutes
Sam Harris Zeynep Tufekci misinformation getting ready for coronavirus masks
JAN
27
2021
#232 — Inequality and Revolution
Hate: 3 41 minutes
Sam Harris Jack Goldstone inequality and revolution wealth inequality wealth redistribution and taxation
JAN
17
2021
#231 — Crossing the Abyss
Misogyny: 6 Toxicity: 54 Hate: 38 1 hour and 14 minutes
Sam Harris Al-Qaeda evolution and extremism
JAN
11
2021
#230 — An Insurrection of Lies
Misogyny: 5 Toxicity: 58 Hate: 16 41 minutes
Sam Harris Trump Twitter ban
JAN
6
2021
#229 — A Few Thoughts for a New Year
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 1 Hate: 4 29 minutes
Sam Harris failure to cohere cult wealth inequality
DEC
14
2020
#228 — Doing Good
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 4 Hate: 14 2 hours and 15 minutes
Sam Harris Will McCaskill wealth inequality philanthropy knock-on effects
DEC
7
2020
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Hate: 1 2 minutes
Sam Harris Gabriel Dance
DEC
7
2020
#227 — Knowing the Mind
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 6 Hate: 3 46 minutes
Sam Harris Stephen Laurez ordinary life suffering experiences meditation and happiness paradox education and emotional well-being
NOV
27
2020
#226 — The Price of Distraction
44 minutes
Sam Harris Adam Ghazali information foraging attention neuroscience foraging and information patching