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

DEC
14
2017
#108 — Defending the Experts
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 18 Hate: 4 43 minutes
Sam Harris Tom Nichols Dunning-Kruger effect peer review failures emergency surgery decisions
DEC
6
2017
#107 — Is Life Actually Worth Living？
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 1 Hate: 7 49 minutes
Sam Harris David Benatar antinatalism arguments axiological asymmetry
NOV
29
2017
#106 — Humanity 2.0
Misogyny: 1 18 minutes
Sam Harris CRISPR gene editing technology CRISPR mechanism and editing CRISPR-Cas9 technology edits DNA
NOV
20
2017
#105 — Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Matt Dillahunty
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 16 Hate: 2 38 minutes
Sam Harris mutation and natural selection freedom of expression losing one's sense of self
NOV
15
2017
#104 — The Lessons of Death
Toxicity: 3 28 minutes
Sam Harris death and attention living with awareness of death death and impermanence
NOV
9
2017
#103 — American Fantasies
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 1 Hate: 9 25 minutes
Sam Harris Kurt Anderson
OCT
30
2017
#102 — Is Buddhism True？
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 5 Hate: 6 55 minutes
Sam Harris Robert Wright meditation retreat experiences mindfulness practice meditation and perception evolution
OCT
17
2017
#101 — Defending the Republic
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 3 Hate: 1 33 minutes
Sam Harris Cass Sunstein Hashtag Republic choice architecture and its consequences choice architecture
OCT
9
2017
#100 — Facing the Crowd
Misogyny: 5 Toxicity: 10 Hate: 5 39 minutes
Sam Harris Nicholas Christakis free expression
OCT
6
2017
The ＂After On＂ Interview
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 24 Hate: 41 1 hour and 48 minutes
Sam Harris writing vs. podcasting migrant crisis in Europe meditation retreats and Buddhism
SEP
28
2017
#99 — What Happened to Liberalism？
Misogyny: 13 Toxicity: 12 Hate: 13 32 minutes
Sam Harris Mark Lilla identity politics identity politics
SEP
21
2017
#98 — Into the Dark Land
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 4 29 minutes
Sam Harris cancer conversation epstein-barr virus persistence mystery
SEP
15
2017
#97 — The Impossible War
Hate: 3 26 minutes
Sam Harris sound design and archival footage
SEP
10
2017
#96 — The Nature of Consciousness
Toxicity: 11 Hate: 14 51 minutes
Sam Harris Thomas Metzinger consciousness community consciousness mystery self consciousness
SEP
5
2017
#95 — What You Need to Know About Climate Change
Misogyny: 1 Hate: 5 46 minutes
Sam Harris Joe Rome Joseph Rome climate change climate change certainty ice melt feedback mechanism
AUG
29
2017
#94 — Frontiers of Intelligence
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 4 Hate: 2 36 minutes
Sam Harris Max Tegmark Life 3.0 and AI Risks safety engineering
AUG
21
2017
#93 — Identity & Terror
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 25 Hate: 32 39 minutes
Sam Harris Douglas Murray charlottesville incident Charlottesville and Trump response identity politics horrors
AUG
16
2017
#92 — The Limits of Persuasion
Misogyny: 5 Toxicity: 32 Hate: 10 59 minutes
Sam Harris coddling of the American mind conceptual penis hoax mockery and response to criticism
AUG
9
2017
#91 — The Biology of Good and Evil
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 13 Hate: 19 42 minutes
Sam Harris Robert Sapolsky primatology and neuroendocrinology behavioral biologists' approach emotion and rationality intertwining
AUG
6
2017
#90 — Living With Violence
Misogyny: 10 Toxicity: 17 Hate: 6 1 hour and 1 minute
Sam Harris Gavin DeBecker rape statistics intuition and safety decisions intuition