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

MAY
15
2015
#9 — Final Thoughts On Chomsky
Hate: 1 10 minutes
Sam Harris conversation difficulties
APR
24
2015
#8 — Ask Me Anything 1
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 11 Hate: 12 38 minutes
Sam Harris atheist civil rights comparison recursive self-improvement statism and religion
MAR
25
2015
#7 — Through the Eyes of a Cult
Toxicity: 4 Hate: 1 11 minutes
Sam Harris Heaven's Gate cult suicide Heaven's Gate cult members' testimonies
FEB
18
2015
#6 — The Chapel Hill Murders and 'Militant' Atheism
Toxicity: 18 Hate: 12 12 minutes
Sam Harris
JAN
22
2015
#5 — After Charlie Hebdo and Other Thoughts
Misogyny: 4 Toxicity: 41 Hate: 19 15 minutes
Sam Harris
OCT
28
2014
#4 — The Path and the Goal
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 4 Hate: 20 50 minutes
Sam Harris Joseph Goldstein vipassana practice
AUG
21
2014
#3 — WAKING UP — Chapter One
Toxicity: 5 Hate: 21 40 minutes
Sam Harris spiritual practices wisdom and happiness
JUL
27
2014
#2 — Why Don't I Criticize Israel？
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 24 Hate: 53 16 minutes
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JUN
5
2014
#1 — Drugs And The Meaning Of Life
Misogyny: 2 Hate: 1 20 minutes
Sam Harris psychedelics ingesting a powerful dose of psychedelic drug
NOV
12
2013
How to talk to a Christian
Toxicity: 10 Hate: 8 8 minutes
Sam Harris
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Making Sense of Free Will ｜ Episode 5 of The Essential Sam Harris
Toxicity: 26 Hate: 4
Sam Harris
No Date
Making Sense of Existential Threat and Nuclear War ｜ Episode 7 of The Essential Sam Harris
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 16 Hate: 8
Sam Harris nuclear war existential threat vulnerable world hypothesis global coordination problem
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Making Sense of Encounters With Violence ｜ Episode 4 of The Essential Sam Harris
Misogyny: 6 Toxicity: 7 Hate: 4
Sam Harris intuition and safety decisions
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Making Sense of Social Media and the Information Landscape ｜ Episode 8 of The Essential Sam Harris
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 1
Sam Harris attention economy smartphone addiction advertising and algorithmic behavior modification
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Making Sense of Meditation ｜ Episode 10 of The Essential Sam Harris
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 5 Hate: 7
Sam Harris meditation initiation experience unborn experience
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Making Sense of Consciousness ｜ Episode 2 of The Essential Sam Harris
Misogyny: 1 Hate: 2
Sam Harris hard problem of consciousness zombie argument
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#129 — An Insider’s View of Medicine
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 2 Hate: 1
Sam Harris Nina Shapiro
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Making Sense of Artificial Intelligence ｜ Episode 1 of The Essential Sam Harris
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 12 Hate: 11
Sam Harris Jay Shapiro making sense of artificial intelligence learning and AI generalization
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Making Sense of Foundations of Morality ｜ Episode 3 of The Essential Sam Harris
Misogyny: 7 Toxicity: 13 Hate: 6
Sam Harris moral realism vs anti-realism proximity and moral obligation empathy and proximity in moral dilemmas
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Making Sense of Belief and Unbelief ｜ Episode 6 of The Essential Sam Harris
Misogyny: 35 Toxicity: 76 Hate: 61
Sam Harris hijab Westboro Baptist Church protests FGM practices in Egypt