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

AUG
2
2024
#378 β€” Digital Delusions
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 7 Hate: 3 56 minutes
Sam Harris platforms amplify content
JUL
26
2024
#377 β€” The Future of Psychedelic Medicine 2
Misogyny: 1 Hate: 4 1 hour and 16 minutes
Sam Harris
JUL
19
2024
#376 β€” How Democracies Fail
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 8 Hate: 32 1 hour and 7 minutes
Sam Harris Ann Applebaum norm violations
JUL
16
2024
#375 β€” On the Attempted Assassination of President Trump
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 1 14 minutes
Sam Harris attempted assassination of Trump
JUL
9
2024
#374 β€” Consciousness and the Physical World
Hate: 1 42 minutes
Sam Harris Christoph Koch consciousness evolution cerebellum and consciousness
JUL
2
2024
#373 β€” Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism
Toxicity: 8 Hate: 79 1 hour and 41 minutes
Sam Harris
JUN
24
2024
#372 β€” Life & Work
Toxicity: 1 41 minutes
Sam Harris George Saunders meditation engagement philosophy money & social media influence
JUN
14
2024
#371 β€” What the Hell Is Happening？
Misogyny: 9 Toxicity: 37 Hate: 26 43 minutes
Sam Harris post-modernism gender apartheid Club Random
JUN
6
2024
#370 β€” Gender Apartheid and the Future of Iran
Misogyny: 33 Toxicity: 23 Hate: 84 1 hour and 21 minutes
Sam Harris gender apartheid in iran
MAY
30
2024
#369 β€” Escaping Death
Misogyny: 4 Toxicity: 1 Hate: 6 33 minutes
Sam Harris Sebastian Younger proximity to danger freelance war reporting danger and meaning
MAY
21
2024
#368 β€” Freedom & Censorship
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 2 Hate: 16 42 minutes
Sam Harris Greg Lukianoff cancel culture undermining trust Free Speech boundaries Free Speech differences Europe America
MAY
13
2024
#367 β€” Campus Protests, Antisemitism, and Western Values
Misogyny: 17 Toxicity: 135 Hate: 115 53 minutes
Sam Harris
MAY
7
2024
#366 β€” Urban Warfare 2.0
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 6 Hate: 42 1 hour and 39 minutes
Sam Harris urban warfare in gaza
MAY
1
2024
#365 β€” Reality Check
Toxicity: 2 Hate: 3 51 minutes
Sam Harris Sweden vs. US pandemic response pandemic response lessons
APR
23
2024
#364 β€” Facts & Values
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 1 Hate: 2 28 minutes
Sam Harris science and philosophy of epistemic and ethical values
APR
15
2024
#363 β€” Knowledge Work
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 1 Hate: 1 51 minutes
Sam Harris Cal Newport academic in exile effect pseudo productivity slow productivity principles
APR
9
2024
#362 β€” Six Months of War
Misogyny: 5 Toxicity: 36 Hate: 93 54 minutes
Sam Harris Israel and Hamas conflict jihadism in Middle Easterns conflict genocidal intent Hamas
APR
1
2024
#361 β€” Sam Bankman-Fried & Effective Altruism
Toxicity: 6 Hate: 2 1 hour and 25 minutes
Sam Harris
MAR
19
2024
#359 β€” Getting Used to It
Misogyny: 1 31 minutes
Sam Harris Cass Sunstein habituation psychological richness midlife crisis
MAR
11
2024
#358 β€” The War in Ukraine
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 8 Hate: 27 36 minutes
Sam Harris Yaroslav Trofimov Russian invasion and Ukraine's war of independence propaganda and religious framing of war