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

NOV
18
2020
#225 β€” Republic of Lies
Toxicity: 16 Hate: 5 31 minutes
Sam Harris fake election fraud crisis our institutions will hold
NOV
3
2020
#224 β€” The Key to Trump's Appeal
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 31 Hate: 5 8 minutes
Sam Harris Trump's appeal
OCT
30
2020
#223 β€” A Conversation with Andrew Sullivan
Misogyny: 6 Toxicity: 31 Hate: 21 1 hour and 35 minutes
Sam Harris
OCT
28
2020
#222 β€” A Pandemic of Incompetence
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 10 Hate: 7 1 hour and 5 minutes
Sam Harris Nicholas Christakis coronavirus pandemic impacts social learning and cooperation excess death metric
OCT
22
2020
#221 β€” Success, Failure, & the Common Good
Misogyny: 5 Toxicity: 1 Hate: 1 47 minutes
Sam Harris Michael Sandel financial inequality debates
OCT
17
2020
#220 - The Information Apocalypse
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 7 Hate: 15 47 minutes
Sam Harris Nina Schick deep fakes discussion deepfakes deep fakes
OCT
8
2020
#219 β€” The Power of Compassion
Misogyny: 4 Toxicity: 5 Hate: 6 48 minutes
Sam Harris James Doty compassion in surgery compassion conversation
SEP
24
2020
#218 β€” Welcome to the Cult Factory
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 9 Hate: 6 47 minutes
Sam Harris Tristan Harris social media and misinformation smartphone addiction
SEP
17
2020
#217 β€” The New Religion of Anti-Racism
Misogyny: 15 Toxicity: 72 Hate: 55 1 hour and 11 minutes
Sam Harris woke politics
SEP
3
2020
#216 β€” A Conversation with Graeme Wood
Toxicity: 26 Hate: 5 51 minutes
Sam Harris Graham Wood police incentives and chaos
AUG
21
2020
#215 β€” A Conversation with David Miliband
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 4 Hate: 30 49 minutes
Sam Harris David Miliband IRC and its work collaborating with repressive governments
AUG
13
2020
#214 β€” A Conversation with Siddhartha Mukherjee
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 1 Hate: 8 46 minutes
Sam Harris Siddhartha Mukherjee ineptitudes mistake number two masks
AUG
4
2020
#213 β€” The Worst Epidemic
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 36 Hate: 6 2 hours and 14 minutes
Sam Harris Gabriel Dance child sexual abuse child sexual abuse epidemic internet child sexual abuse imagery
JUL
29
2020
#212 β€” A Conversation with Kathryn Paige Harden
Toxicity: 7 Hate: 6 48 minutes
Sam Harris Paige Harden platforming Robert Plowman default hypothesis on genes and group differences default hypothesis
JUL
17
2020
#211 β€” The Nature of Human Nature
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 4 Hate: 5 1 hour and 12 minutes
Sam Harris Robert Plowman genetics in psychology DNA revolution group differences
JUL
9
2020
#210 β€” The Logic of Doomsday
Misogyny: 4 Toxicity: 7 Hate: 35 1 hour and 46 minutes
Sam Harris nuclear weapons nuclear risk nuclear crisis engagement
JUL
3
2020
#209 β€” A Good Life
Toxicity: 3 Hate: 7 57 minutes
Sam Harris Scott Barry Kaufman wisdom and transcendence wisdom in psychology self-actualization
JUN
23
2020
#208 β€” Existential Risk
1 hour and 4 minutes
Sam Harris existential risk existential risk conversation proximity ethics
JUN
13
2020
#207 β€” Can We Pull Back From The Brink？
Misogyny: 18 Toxicity: 264 Hate: 45 1 hour and 53 minutes
Sam Harris police violence racism police violence protests Floyd racism in America
MAY
26
2020
#206 β€” A Conversation with David Frum
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 7 Hate: 6 45 minutes
Sam Harris David Frum trump election bias Trumpism Facebook business model & privacy norms