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

OCT
26
2016
#49 — The Lesser Evil
Misogyny: 36 Toxicity: 32 Hate: 21 1 hour and 5 minutes
Sam Harris Andrew Sullivan money grubbing
OCT
21
2016
#48 — What Is Moral Progress？
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 11 Hate: 16 47 minutes
Sam Harris cartoons and freedom of speech
OCT
6
2016
#47 — The Frontiers of Political Correctness
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 7 Hate: 24 48 minutes
Sam Harris Gad Saad racial intelligence differences
SEP
28
2016
#46 — The End of Faith Sessions 3
Misogyny: 9 Toxicity: 22 Hate: 40 27 minutes
Sam Harris
SEP
13
2016
#45 — Ask Me Anything 5
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 30 Hate: 18 46 minutes
Sam Harris BJJ training and grappling experiences freedom and knowledge matters Milo Yiannopoulos and alt-right
AUG
29
2016
#44 — Being Good and Doing Good
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 10 Hate: 6 55 minutes
Sam Harris Will McCaskill play pump play pump initiative special obligations
AUG
17
2016
#43 — What Do Jihadists Really Want？
Misogyny: 4 Toxicity: 58 Hate: 86 48 minutes
Sam Harris jihadist beliefs and motivations martyrdom
AUG
9
2016
#42 — Racism and Violence in America
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 33 Hate: 28 55 minutes
Sam Harris structural racism
AUG
1
2016
#41 — Faith in Reason
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 6 Hate: 42 1 hour and 3 minutes
Sam Harris Eric Weinstein rent-seeking elite narratives steel manning global jihadism
JUL
12
2016
#40 — Complexity & Stupidity
Toxicity: 24 Hate: 1 47 minutes
Sam Harris
JUL
4
2016
#39 — Free Will Revisited
45 minutes
Sam Harris compatibilism free will subjective experience
JUN
15
2016
#38 — The End of Faith Sessions 2
Misogyny: 5 Toxicity: 6 Hate: 2 40 minutes
Sam Harris logical consistency and beliefs outgrowing violence
MAY
31
2016
#37 — Thinking in Public
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 16 Hate: 5 46 minutes
Sam Harris climate science climate change denial training electorate
MAY
2
2016
#36 — What Makes Us Safer？
Misogyny: 4 Toxicity: 9 Hate: 6 37 minutes
Sam Harris Juliette Kayyem 9/11 attacks never again resiliency in response efforts
APR
25
2016
#35 — The End Of Faith Sessions 1
Misogyny: 6 Toxicity: 76 Hate: 51 51 minutes
Sam Harris religious moderation
APR
18
2016
#34 — The Light of the Mind
Hate: 2 47 minutes
Sam Harris consciousness topics
MAR
26
2016
#33 — Ask Me Anything 4
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 18 Hate: 24 29 minutes
Sam Harris profiling Muslims mindfulness in anxiety mindfulness and self-perception
MAR
12
2016
#32 — The Best Podcast Ever
Misogyny: 14 Toxicity: 76 Hate: 115 1 hour and 36 minutes
Sam Harris Project Islamic Reformation book sales hard conversations
MAR
9
2016
#31 — Evolving Minds
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 16 Hate: 24 42 minutes
Sam Harris Jonathan Haidt ISIS doctrine and religious behavior ISIS fundamentalism vs. moderates
MAR
6
2016
#30 — Inside the Crucible
Misogyny: 5 Toxicity: 34 Hate: 70 42 minutes
Sam Harris Michael Weiss ISIS and Syria civil war