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

MAY
28
2018
#127 — Freedom from the Known
Misogyny: 4 Toxicity: 4 Hate: 3 38 minutes
Sam Harris Michael Pollan psychedelics psilocybin therapy narratives depression treatment trials
MAY
8
2018
#126 — In Defense of Honor
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 24 Hate: 4 50 minutes
Sam Harris Tamler Summers honor matters honor culture justice porn
MAY
1
2018
#125 — What Is Christianity？
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 13 Hate: 15 49 minutes
Sam Harris Bart Ehrman resurrection of Jesus heaven beliefs
APR
21
2018
#124 — In Search of Reality
Toxicity: 1 Hate: 2 47 minutes
Sam Harris Sean Carroll naturalism and poetic many worlds interpretation free will
APR
9
2018
#123 — Identity & Honesty
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 15 Hate: 11 52 minutes
Sam Harris Murray's work & UBI debates
APR
3
2018
#122 — Extreme Housekeeping Edition
Hate: 3 18 minutes
Sam Harris college speech protests
MAR
25
2018
#121 — White Power
Misogyny: 5 Toxicity: 20 Hate: 16 1 hour and 1 minute
Sam Harris Christian Picciolini Christian Piccellini conversation White Supremacist recruitment and indoctrination gradations of commitment
MAR
19
2018
#120 — What Is and What Matters
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 17 Hate: 5 50 minutes
Sam Harris Rebecca Goldstein Max Tegmark what is and matters science and philosophy realism vs. instrumentalism
MAR
12
2018
#119 — Hidden Motives
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 1 Hate: 1 59 minutes
Sam Harris Robin Hanson Sam Harris hidden motives in everyday life norms and motives confabulation experiments
FEB
27
2018
# 118 — The View from Trumpistan
Toxicity: 1 Hate: 2 28 minutes
Sam Harris
FEB
19
2018
#117 — Networks, Power, and Chaos
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 3 Hate: 4 40 minutes
Sam Harris Neil Ferguson The Square and Tower conversation advertising and democracy breakdown fake news and extreme views
FEB
9
2018
The Russell Brand Interview
Misogyny: 19 Toxicity: 43 Hate: 50 2 hours and 1 minute
Sam Harris Catholic mass doctrine mental illness prison incentives
FEB
6
2018
#116 — AI： Racing Toward the Brink
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 11 Hate: 4 55 minutes
Sam Harris Eliezer Yudkowsky alignment problem orthogonality of intelligence and values is-ought distinction
JAN
29
2018
#115 — Sam Harris, Lawrence Krauss, and Matt Dillahunty (1)
Toxicity: 8 Hate: 15 38 minutes
Sam Harris Sam Harris nuclear false alarm and doomsday clock Christian support for Trump morality and religion
JAN
22
2018
#114 — Politics and Sanity
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 16 Hate: 10 50 minutes
Sam Harris identity politics reverse racism
JAN
9
2018
#113 — Consciousness and the Self
Hate: 2 1 hour and 43 minutes
Sam Harris Anil Seth Edelman's interactions and legacy consciousness definitions consciousness definition disagreement
JAN
2
2018
#112 — The Intellectual Dark Web
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 15 Hate: 12 55 minutes
Sam Harris Sam Harris markets and economic growth identity politics Judeo-Christian civilization
DEC
28
2017
#111 — The Science of Meditation
Toxicity: 4 Hate: 6 41 minutes
Sam Harris Daniel Goleman
DEC
23
2017
#110 — The Change Artist
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 9 Hate: 12 45 minutes
Sam Harris polyamory and compersion dietary advice
DEC
19
2017
#109— Biology and Culture
Misogyny: 21 Toxicity: 18 Hate: 15 56 minutes
Sam Harris Brett Weinstein Evergreen scandal Evergreen Scandal race and lineage concepts