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

FEB
7
2020
#185 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 11 Hate: 4 29 minutes
Sam Harris trump derangement syndrome
FEB
3
2020
#184 — The Conversational Nature of Reality
Misogyny: 1 Hate: 1 29 minutes
Sam Harris
JAN
28
2020
#183 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom
Misogyny: 7 Toxicity: 3 Hate: 1 27 minutes
Sam Harris
JAN
23
2020
#182 — Unlearning Race
Misogyny: 9 Toxicity: 5 Hate: 21 39 minutes
Sam Harris race and racial categories
JAN
13
2020
#181 — The Illusory Self
Toxicity: 1 Hate: 5 1 hour and 32 minutes
Sam Harris having no head seeing who you really are seeing
DEC
30
2019
#180 — Sex & Power
Misogyny: 29 Toxicity: 16 Hate: 7 48 minutes
Sam Harris
DEC
17
2019
#179 — The Unquiet Mind
Hate: 2 33 minutes
Sam Harris mindfulness and addiction
DEC
11
2019
#178 — The Reality Illusion
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 1 Hate: 3 1 hour and 7 minutes
Sam Harris Donald Hoffman subscription model fitness payoffs in evolutionary theory fitness and perception illusions
DEC
2
2019
#177 — Psychedelic Science
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 3 Hate: 3 1 hour and 26 minutes
Sam Harris
NOV
23
2019
#176 — Knowledge & Redemption
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 2 Hate: 2 1 hour and 4 minutes
Sam Harris Lynn Novick lynn College Behind Bars documentary College Behind Bars Bard Prison Initiative film context
NOV
11
2019
#175 — Leaving the Faith
Misogyny: 35 Toxicity: 21 Hate: 27 37 minutes
Sam Harris
NOV
4
2019
#174 — Life & Mind
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 4 Hate: 8 48 minutes
Sam Harris Richard Dawkins vaccinations & immunity limitations extended phenotype and evolution parasites & extended phenotypes
OCT
28
2019
#173 — Anti-Semitism and Its Discontents
Toxicity: 18 Hate: 25 27 minutes
Sam Harris
OCT
21
2019
#172 — Among the Deplorables
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 5 Hate: 5 51 minutes
Sam Harris
OCT
8
2019
#171 — Escaping a Christian Cult
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 12 Hate: 8 41 minutes
Sam Harris
OCT
2
2019
#170 — The Great Uncoupling
Misogyny: 5 Toxicity: 15 Hate: 11 48 minutes
Sam Harris white privilege conversations
SEP
20
2019
#169 — Omens of a Race War
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 8 Hate: 30 43 minutes
Sam Harris white power movement paramilitarization leaderless resistance murderous White Supremacist
SEP
11
2019
#168 — Mind, Space, & Motion
Misogyny: 2 Hate: 3 36 minutes
Sam Harris Barbara Tversky spatial thinking foundations space and numbers embodiment
AUG
26
2019
#167 — A Few Thoughts on White Supremacy
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 42 Hate: 11 16 minutes
Sam Harris Japan policy and racism
AUG
21
2019
#166 — The Plague Years
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 1 Hate: 3 25 minutes
Sam Harris Matt McCarthy superbugs antibiotic resistance antibiotic market broken