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

AUG
14
2019
#165 — Journey into Wokeness
Misogyny: 58 Hate: 37 1 hour and 1 minute
Sam Harris groups coming attention changing social norms
AUG
5
2019
#164 — Cause & Effect
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 30 Hate: 6 50 minutes
Sam Harris gun violence in US imagining impossible objects counterfactuals
JUL
12
2019
#163 — Ricky Gervais
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 84 Hate: 14 55 minutes
Sam Harris waking up course groups feature cancel culture racists and Nazis getting away
JUL
3
2019
#162 — Medical Intelligence
Toxicity: 8 Hate: 4 36 minutes
Sam Harris Portland Antifa protests medical malpractice encounters
JUN
24
2019
#161 — Rise & Fall
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 32 Hate: 37 43 minutes
Sam Harris guns
JUN
17
2019
#160 — The Revenge of History
Misogyny: 8 Toxicity: 48 Hate: 16 57 minutes
Sam Harris Michael Weiss end of history debate Trump derangement syndrome
JUN
6
2019
#159 — Conscious
Misogyny: 2 Hate: 2 30 minutes
Sam Harris consciousness conversations consciousness consciousness and its role in behavior
MAY
30
2019
#158 — Understanding Humans in the Wild
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 4 Hate: 2 58 minutes
Sam Harris Adam Grant teams work effectively power and corruption slot rattling
MAY
20
2019
#157 — What Does the Mueller Report Really Say？
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 9 Hate: 5 35 minutes
Sam Harris Benjamin Wittes Mueller report autopsy Mueller report release handling Mueller Report criminality
MAY
13
2019
#156 — The Evolution of Culture
Toxicity: 1 Hate: 2 40 minutes
Sam Harris town hall event livestream groupiness grief experiences
APR
29
2019
#155 — Mental Models
Toxicity: 5 Hate: 3 48 minutes
Sam Harris subscription policy changes mental models online privacy
APR
25
2019
#154 — What Do Jihadists Really Want？ (2019)
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 67 Hate: 76 54 minutes
Sam Harris
APR
15
2019
#153 — Possible Minds
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 5 Hate: 8 1 hour and 38 minutes
Sam Harris George Dyson von Neumann architecture legacy analog vs. digital computation analog computation
MAR
27
2019
#152 — The Trouble with Facebook
Misogyny: 4 Hate: 4 50 minutes
Sam Harris Roger McNamee misinformation business model filter bubble filter bubbles
MAR
18
2019
#151 — Will We Destroy the Future？
Toxicity: 3 Hate: 1 32 minutes
Sam Harris Nick Bostrom existential risk Vulnerable World Hypothesis nuclear history and stability
MAR
12
2019
#150 — The Map of Misunderstanding
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 8 Hate: 2 49 minutes
Sam Harris replication crisis in science framing and patient choices anticipated regret
MAR
4
2019
#149 — The Problem of Addiction
Hate: 4 40 minutes
Sam Harris psychic distress capture rate of nicotine addiction
FEB
5
2019
#148 — Jack Dorsey
33 minutes
Sam Harris Twitter psychology toxicity on Twitter health of conversation
JAN
28
2019
#147 — Stephen Fry
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 20 Hate: 3 45 minutes
Sam Harris Stephen Fry sketch comedy mindfulness and cognitive training adolescent beauty experiences
JAN
16
2019
#146 — Digital Capitalism
44 minutes
Sam Harris Douglas Rushkoff digital capitalism