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
29
2026
#478 — The Psychedelic Mind
Toxicity: 2 30 minutes
Sam Harris psychedelic research quality recovered memory therapy
MAY
26
2026
#477 — More From Sam： Iran's Unraveling, The Gaza Information War, AI-Generated Music, and More
Toxicity: 14 Hate: 9 21 minutes
Sam Harris
MAY
20
2026
#476 — The Bittersweet Age
Hate: 3 22 minutes
Sam Harris
MAY
12
2026
#475 — The Hard Problem of Consciousness
Toxicity: 1 25 minutes
Sam Harris psychedelics conversation psychedelics research politics
MAY
7
2026
#474 — More From Sam： Hasan Piker, Islamism, Making Sense Community, and More
Toxicity: 13 Hate: 21 16 minutes
Sam Harris new community launch
APR
29
2026
#473 — Money, Power, and Moral Failure
Toxicity: 2 21 minutes
Sam Harris
APR
24
2026
#472 — Strange Days on the Right
Toxicity: 1 Hate: 2 16 minutes
Sam Harris Ben Shapiro cleavages in Republican Party tariff decisions
APR
16
2026
#471 — The End of History, Revisited
Misogyny: 1 Hate: 6 18 minutes
Sam Harris end of history thesis identity politics
APR
13
2026
#470 — Democrats at a Crossroads
Toxicity: 3 Hate: 18 21 minutes
Sam Harris accountabilities and standards
APR
10
2026
#469 — Escaping an Anti-Human Future
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 12 Hate: 22 1 hour and 49 minutes
Sam Harris anthropic blackmail example AI mining cryptocurrency AI arms race
APR
7
2026
#468 — More From Sam： Gratitude, Bad Conversations, Conspiracy Addiction, Waffle House Teleportation, and More
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 27 Hate: 5 32 minutes
Sam Harris mindfulness and anxiety about jobs mindfulness conspiracy addiction
MAR
30
2026
#467 — EA, AI, and the End of Work
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 7 Hate: 3 29 minutes
Sam Harris global health donations effectiveness animal welfare in factory farming
MAR
24
2026
#466 — What Is Technology Doing to Us？
Toxicity: 12 Hate: 1 18 minutes
Sam Harris Nicholas Christakis social media toxicity AI slop
MAR
18
2026
#465 — More From Sam： Iran, Jihadism, Conspiracism, AI Disruption, the Manosphere, and More
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 28 Hate: 52 36 minutes
Sam Harris Iran Iranian war and jihadism elite institutions moral confusion
MAR
16
2026
#464 — The Politics of Pragmatism and the Future of California
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 3 Hate: 5 1 hour and 22 minutes
Sam Harris wealth tax backfire homelessness in CA blue cities and homelessness
MAR
11
2026
#463 — Privatizing the Apocalypse
Misogyny: 2 Hate: 4 22 minutes
Sam Harris deep vision deep vision
MAR
6
2026
#462 — More From Sam： The Iran War, American Amorality, Addressing Hopelessness, Tucker, and More
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 9 Hate: 31 19 minutes
Sam Harris Iranian women's rights protest Brett Stevens' talk on antisemitism
FEB
25
2026
#461 — Dictators Always Tell You What They'll Do
Toxicity: 2 Hate: 5 28 minutes
Sam Harris Gary Kasparov restoring credibility
FEB
20
2026
#460 — When the Center Cannot Hold
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 11 Hate: 2 21 minutes
Sam Harris Jonah Goldberg schism on the right
FEB
13
2026
#459 — More From Sam： Corruption, Immigration, The End of White-Collar Work, and More
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 3 Hate: 4 9 minutes
Sam Harris corruption