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

FEB
24
2016
#29 — Throw Open the Gates
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 10 Hate: 38 51 minutes
Sam Harris friendly fire
FEB
20
2016
#28 — Meat Without Misery
Misogyny: 1 Hate: 1 20 minutes
Sam Harris synthetic meat conversation
FEB
13
2016
#27 — Ask Me Anything 3
Misogyny: 8 Toxicity: 9 Hate: 9 29 minutes
Sam Harris voting for Clinton vs Sanders jet lag onstage interviews
JAN
19
2016
#26 — The Logic of Violence
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 11 Hate: 15 42 minutes
Sam Harris fighting for freedom in iraq
JAN
14
2016
#25 — Behind the Gun
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 10 Hate: 4 44 minutes
Sam Harris
JAN
4
2016
#24 — Ask Me Anything 2
Misogyny: 5 Toxicity: 53 Hate: 49 45 minutes
Sam Harris violence week Fareed Zakaria's book on Muslim public opinion
DEC
21
2015
#23 — Islam and the Future of Tolerance (Audiobook Excerpts)
Toxicity: 11 Hate: 32 37 minutes
Sam Harris
DEC
16
2015
#22 — Surviving the Cosmos
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 4 Hate: 1 49 minutes
Sam Harris
NOV
22
2015
#21 — On the Maintenance of Civilization
Misogyny: 7 Toxicity: 34 Hate: 44 57 minutes
Sam Harris refugee vetting and Islam Islamism problems
NOV
15
2015
#20 — Still Sleepwalking Toward Armageddon
Toxicity: 1 Hate: 9 9 minutes
Sam Harris
OCT
8
2015
#19 — The Riddle Of The Gun (Revisited)
Misogyny: 7 Toxicity: 60 Hate: 5 39 minutes
Sam Harris
SEP
23
2015
#18 — The Multiverse & You (& You & You & You...)
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 1 Hate: 1 43 minutes
Sam Harris
SEP
16
2015
#17 — What I Really Think About Profiling
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 6 Hate: 1 12 minutes
Sam Harris
AUG
26
2015
#16 — The Dark Side
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 15 Hate: 6 42 minutes
Sam Harris
AUG
11
2015
#15 — Questions Along the Path
Toxicity: 4 Hate: 6 45 minutes
Sam Harris
JUL
29
2015
#14 — The Virtues of Cold Blood
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 4 Hate: 5 42 minutes
Sam Harris
JUL
21
2015
#13 — The Moral Gaze
Toxicity: 1 Hate: 5 32 minutes
Sam Harris
JUL
3
2015
#12 — Leaving the Church
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 27 Hate: 8 30 minutes
Sam Harris westboro baptist church protests
JUN
27
2015
#11 — Shouldering the Burden of History
Misogyny: 8 Toxicity: 17 Hate: 40 58 minutes
Sam Harris
MAY
19
2015
#10 — Faith vs. Fact
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 9 Hate: 12 24 minutes
Sam Harris