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

JUL
25
2017
#89 — On Becoming a Better Person
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 6 Hate: 2 22 minutes
Sam Harris David Brooks The Road to Character values in tension sin and virtues
JUL
21
2017
#88 — Must We Accept a Nuclear North Korea？
Toxicity: 5 Hate: 11 27 minutes
Sam Harris Mark Bowden stalemate with North Gore torture ethics
JUL
19
2017
#87 — Triggered
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 25 Hate: 10 53 minutes
Sam Harris Scott Adams Trump persuasion skills Trump ethics scandal
JUL
14
2017
#86 — From Cells to Cities
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 2 Hate: 5 50 minutes
Sam Harris Jeffrey West scaling laws in biology space filling networks
JUL
7
2017
#85 — Is this the End of Europe？
Misogyny: 10 Toxicity: 23 Hate: 18 40 minutes
Sam Harris Europe immigration Islam europe destruction Murray book Rotherham scandal
JUL
1
2017
#84 — Landscapes of Mind
Toxicity: 4 Hate: 6 45 minutes
Sam Harris Kevin Kelly
JUN
23
2017
#83 — The Politics of Emergency
Toxicity: 6 Hate: 21 38 minutes
Sam Harris Fareed Zakaria partisanship in politics
JUN
15
2017
#82 — The End of the World According to ISIS
Misogyny: 8 Toxicity: 24 Hate: 32 42 minutes
Sam Harris Graham Wood
JUN
9
2017
#81 — Leaving Islam
Misogyny: 34 Toxicity: 20 Hate: 44 50 minutes
Sam Harris Sarah Hader being an ex-Muslim in The Neo-West ex-Muslim communities and anonymity freedom to leave Islam
JUN
4
2017
#80 — The Unraveling
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 5 Hate: 4 24 minutes
Sam Harris Paris Climate Accord scandal fake news Conspiracy Theorist Kushner back-channel communications
MAY
29
2017
#79 — The Road to Tyranny
Toxicity: 1 Hate: 14 31 minutes
Sam Harris Timothy Snyder On Tyranny do not obey in advance defense of institutions
MAY
26
2017
#78 — Persuasion and Control
Misogyny: 3 Hate: 3 40 minutes
Sam Harris Zeynep Tufekci social media autonomy persuasion segmentation problems persuasion and manipulation
MAY
22
2017
#77 — The Moral Complexity of Genetics
Misogyny: 8 Toxicity: 10 Hate: 6 44 minutes
Sam Harris Siddhartha Mukherjee eugenics discussion
MAY
18
2017
#76 — The Path to Impeachment
Misogyny: 5 Toxicity: 9 Hate: 7 39 minutes
Sam Harris partisanship allegations
MAY
12
2017
#75 — Ask Me Anything 7
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 6 Hate: 9 29 minutes
Sam Harris platform vulnerabilities Neuralink and brain-computer interfaces
MAY
6
2017
#74 — What Should We Eat？
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 8 Hate: 8 46 minutes
Sam Harris Gary Taubes cold fusion scandal energy balance hypothesis endocrinology and obesity
APR
23
2017
#73 — Forbidden Knowledge
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 10 Hate: 7 50 minutes
Sam Harris The Bell Curve IQ and Race Controversy IQ and Intelligence Genetics
APR
17
2017
#72 — Privacy and Security
Hate: 1 14 minutes
Sam Harris bureaucracies and intelligence cultures
APR
14
2017
#71 — What Is Technology Doing to Us？
45 minutes
Sam Harris Tristan Harris persuasive technology ethics time on site metrics money
APR
10
2017
#70 — Beauty and Terror
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 9 Hate: 6 50 minutes
Sam Harris Lawrence Krauss book writing debate censorship religious group debates