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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Hosts, guests, and mentioned names generated with spaCy (en_core_web_sm), reconciled against Wikidata.

Episodes

JUN
2
2025
#418 — A Future for Democrats
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 5 Hate: 16 45 minutes
Sam Harris
MAY
28
2025
#417 — Philosophy for Life
Hate: 1 22 minutes
Sam Harris Donald Robertson stoicism prosoche practice
MAY
23
2025
#416 — “More From Sam”： Biden's Big Lie, Review of Tapper Interview, Trump, & a Case Against Israel's Actions in Gaza
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 6 Hate: 1 19 minutes
Sam Harris
MAY
21
2025
#415 — The Cover-Up
Toxicity: 2 Hate: 1 24 minutes
Sam Harris subscription policy changes
MAY
12
2025
#414 — Strange Truths
22 minutes
Sam Harris David Deutsch many worlds interpretation Everett's many-worlds interpretation Everett's theory
MAY
6
2025
#413 — “More From Sam”： Trump & Israel, Corruption, Free Speech Violations, the Democrats, & Ezra Klein
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 16 Hate: 15 26 minutes
Sam Harris Trump Wanted anti-Semitism Trump's Vietnam deal and tariffs
MAY
2
2025
#412 — Better Things & Better People
Misogyny: 4 Toxicity: 3 Hate: 4 26 minutes
Sam Harris Rutger Bregman inequality and tax fairness effective altruism movement
APR
25
2025
#411 — The Victimhood Pandemic
Toxicity: 4 Hate: 5 31 minutes
Sam Harris Scott Barry Kaufman success psychopaths dark triad leadership vulnerable narcissism
APR
20
2025
#410 — The Whole Catastrophe
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 19 Hate: 54 1 hour and 7 minutes
Sam Harris Douglas Murray Hamas hostage releases & Israeli military actions
APR
16
2025
#409 — ＂More From Sam＂： Religion, Deportations, Douglas Murray vs. Rogan, & Bill Maher's Dinner with Trump
Misogyny: 8 Toxicity: 15 Hate: 13 48 minutes
Sam Harris deportations and Bill Moyers secular culture and spirituality freedom of speech debate
APR
14
2025
#408 — Finding Equanimity in Chaos
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 42 Hate: 26 1 hour and 50 minutes
Sam Harris gun and self-defense
APR
9
2025
#407 — Can We Ever Return to Normal Politics？
Toxicity: 2 Hate: 2 19 minutes
Sam Harris Jon Favreau
APR
7
2025
#406 — The Legacy of Christianity
Toxicity: 3 Hate: 19 25 minutes
Sam Harris Tom Holland
APR
4
2025
#405 — ＂More From Sam＂： Tariffs, SignalGate, Trump, Elon, Douglas Murray, & Joe Rogan
Toxicity: 29 Hate: 6 20 minutes
Sam Harris tariffs
MAR
25
2025
#404 — What If Consciousness Is Fundamental？
Misogyny: 1 Hate: 5 2 hours and 20 minutes
Sam Harris consciousness and experience of yellow consciousness fundamental memory and consciousness
MAR
10
2025
#403 — Sanity Check on Trump 2.0
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 9 Hate: 9 37 minutes
Sam Harris Jonah Goldberg realism and US foreign policy
FEB
28
2025
#402 — The Geopolitics of Trump 2.0
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 2 Hate: 13 32 minutes
Sam Harris Neil Ferguson Trump 2.0 analogies geopolitical motivations of trump
FEB
18
2025
#401 — Christian Nationalism and the New Right
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 5 Hate: 8 32 minutes
Sam Harris Catherine Stewart Money Lies in God Christian nationalism and new right movements Christian nationalism overlaps with white supremacists
FEB
6
2025
#400 — The Politics of Information
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 1 Hate: 4 36 minutes
Sam Harris Helen Lewis media polarization in US vs UK
JAN
27
2025
#399 — The Politics of Catastrophe
Misogyny: 4 Toxicity: 5 Hate: 7 1 hour and 15 minutes
Sam Harris cleanup and health concerns