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

MAY
22
2020
#205 β€” The Failure of Meritocracy
Misogyny: 7 Hate: 3 59 minutes
Sam Harris Daniel Markovitz inequality trends in US economic inequality elite gender inequality
MAY
18
2020
#204 β€” A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt
Misogyny: 12 Toxicity: 13 Hate: 17 1 hour and 5 minutes
Sam Harris Jonathan Haidt polarization in social sciences
MAY
13
2020
#203 β€” A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan
Misogyny: 21 Toxicity: 25 Hate: 14 1 hour and 7 minutes
Sam Harris cancer treatment experiences apology and forgiveness conversation
MAY
11
2020
#202 β€” A Conversation with Andrew Yang
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 3 Hate: 5 38 minutes
Sam Harris wealth inequality coronavirus crisis government response Biden campaign concerns
MAY
1
2020
#201 β€” A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 5 Hate: 21 1 hour and 8 minutes
Sam Harris
APR
29
2020
#200 β€” Creatures of Habit
Toxicity: 1 Hate: 3 32 minutes
Sam Harris James Clear habits habits and rebounding from challenges habits and their dynamics
APR
24
2020
#199 β€” A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan
Misogyny: 25 Toxicity: 5 Hate: 17 37 minutes
Sam Harris
APR
16
2020
#198 β€” A Conversation with Paul Bloom
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 26 Hate: 11 58 minutes
Sam Harris price on human life pandemic response and habits Trump election prospects
APR
12
2020
#197 β€” A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 4 Hate: 7 30 minutes
Sam Harris Caitlin Flanagan quarantine experience
APR
10
2020
#196 β€” The Science of Happiness
Misogyny: 4 Hate: 3 59 minutes
Sam Harris
APR
6
2020
#195 β€” Social Cohesion is Everything
Misogyny: 2 Hate: 6 1 hour and 8 minutes
Sam Harris social cohesion and pandemic response
MAR
25
2020
#194 β€” The New Future of Work
Misogyny: 2 Hate: 12 1 hour and 44 minutes
Sam Harris Matt Mullenweg working from home work-from-home challenges level four talent pool
MAR
20
2020
#193 β€” Meditation in an Emergency
Misogyny: 1 Hate: 1 21 minutes
Sam Harris anxiety mechanisms economic emergency
MAR
17
2020
#192 β€” A Conversation with Paul Bloom
Toxicity: 12 Hate: 8 37 minutes
Sam Harris music controversy coronavirus analogy to flu social distancing paradox
MAR
11
2020
#191 β€” Early Thoughts on a Pandemic
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 1 Hate: 12 1 hour and 6 minutes
Sam Harris Amish Adalja respiratory droplets transmission minutes flattening the curve
MAR
10
2020
#190 β€” How Should We Respond to Coronavirus？
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 5 Hate: 7 1 hour and 18 minutes
Sam Harris Nicholas Christakis coronavirus pandemic bandwidth epidemiology and economics implications school closure dilemma
MAR
2
2020
#189 β€” Wealth & Happiness
Misogyny: 12 Toxicity: 33 Hate: 21 1 hour and 11 minutes
Sam Harris wealth and happiness conversation wealth inequality wealth tax proposals
FEB
28
2020
#188 β€” A Conversation with Paul Bloom
Misogyny: 9 Toxicity: 22 Hate: 8 32 minutes
Sam Harris
FEB
21
2020
#187 β€” A Conversation with Paul Bloom
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 7 Hate: 2 28 minutes
Sam Harris loyalty and moral obligations
FEB
18
2020
#186 β€” The Bomb
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 10 Hate: 25 1 hour and 20 minutes
Sam Harris nuclear war history