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
11
2026
#458 — The Bulwark Against MAGA
Misogyny: 15 Hate: 16 59 minutes
Sam Harris Sarah Longwell voters' appetite for change Candace People America First recruitment
FEB
5
2026
#457 — More From Sam： The Epstein Files, The Newsom Factor, Don Lemon's Arrest, AI Market Disruption, and More
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 17 Hate: 4 16 minutes
Sam Harris gradations of culpability
FEB
4
2026
#456 — American Fascism
Toxicity: 7 Hate: 6 20 minutes
Sam Harris Jonathan Rauch patrimonialism
JAN
30
2026
#455 — More From Sam： Guns, Propaganda, AI, and Power Unbound
Misogyny: 1 11 minutes
Sam Harris climate concerns
JAN
21
2026
#454 — More From Sam： Minnesota, Greenland, Iran, S＊＊thole Countries, and More
Misogyny: 4 Toxicity: 12 Hate: 5 16 minutes
Sam Harris ICE and Renee Good
JAN
16
2026
#453 — AI and the New Face of Antisemitism
Toxicity: 6 Hate: 10 21 minutes
Sam Harris Judea Pearl causal reasoning limitations
JAN
7
2026
#452 — Is Wokeness Finally Dead？
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 4 Hate: 8 21 minutes
Sam Harris John McWhorter woke racism
DEC
31
2025
#451 — The One Resolution That Matters Most
9 minutes
Sam Harris mindfulness matters mindfulness practices mindfulness practice
DEC
30
2025
#450 — More From Sam： Resolutions, Conspiracies, Demonology, and the Fate of the World
Toxicity: 7 Hate: 11 28 minutes
Sam Harris
DEC
22
2025
#449 — Dogma, Tribe, and Truth
Hate: 5 23 minutes
Sam Harris Ross Douthat guaranteed basic income
DEC
8
2025
#448 — The Philosophy of Good and Evil
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 4 24 minutes
Sam Harris David Edmonds trolley problem trolley cases double effect doctrine
DEC
4
2025
#447 — The Unraveling of American Power
Toxicity: 6 Hate: 8 20 minutes
Sam Harris Peter Zion unraveling of American power de-industrialization and tariffs
DEC
1
2025
#446 — How to Do the Most Good
Toxicity: 2 Hate: 2 21 minutes
Sam Harris Michael Plant deontological vs consequentialist ethics hedonism and subjective wellbeing
NOV
26
2025
#445 — More From Sam： Marjorie Taylor Greene, Billionaires, Thanksgiving Political Debates, & Rapid Fire Questions
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 16 Hate: 1 18 minutes
Sam Harris
NOV
17
2025
#444 — America's Zombie Democracy
Toxicity: 5 Hate: 1 21 minutes
Sam Harris George Packer authoritarianism in US democracy rule of law
NOV
10
2025
#443 — What Is Christian Nationalism？
Misogyny: 8 Toxicity: 18 Hate: 47 1 hour and 59 minutes
Sam Harris christian nationalism debate
NOV
3
2025
#442 — More From Sam： Public Speaking, Nuclear War, & Christian Nationalism
Hate: 5 17 minutes
Sam Harris public speaking anxiety journey public speaking anxiety nuclear testing
OCT
31
2025
#441 — The Threat of Civil War
Hate: 6 21 minutes
Sam Harris Stephen Marsh expanded political violence hyper-partisanship levels
OCT
24
2025
#440 — A World in Crisis
Misogyny: 2 Hate: 13 24 minutes
Sam Harris Robert Kaplan global Weimar analogy institutions
OCT
14
2025
#439 — How to Lose a Democracy
Toxicity: 1 Hate: 5 22 minutes
Sam Harris Damon Linker