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

MAR
4
2024
#357 — America & World Order
Toxicity: 8 Hate: 22 32 minutes
Sam Harris America's place in the world American isolationism Navalny matters
FEB
28
2024
#356 — Islam & Freedom
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 10 Hate: 39 29 minutes
Sam Harris Islamophobia
FEB
21
2024
#355 — A Falling World
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 17 Hate: 65 48 minutes
Sam Harris Putin and right-wing politics Iranian internal problems immigration as a solution for aging economies
FEB
16
2024
#354 — Is Moral Progress a Fantasy？
Misogyny: 4 Toxicity: 1 Hate: 14 40 minutes
Sam Harris John Gray
FEB
11
2024
#353 — Race & Reason
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 20 Hate: 27 56 minutes
Sam Harris Homsa Youssef colorblindness race and politics colorblindness and race disparities
FEB
4
2024
#352 — Hubris & Chaos
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 6 Hate: 33 29 minutes
Sam Harris
JAN
30
2024
#351 — 5 Myths about Israel and the War in Gaza
Toxicity: 16 Hate: 62 42 minutes
Sam Harris
JAN
23
2024
#350 — Sharing Reality
Toxicity: 12 Hate: 3 42 minutes
Sam Harris Jonathan Rausch The Constitution of Knowledge
JAN
16
2024
#349 — Generosity, Cynicism, and the Future of Doing Good
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 9 Hate: 9 1 hour and 2 minutes
Sam Harris Chris Anderson ESG and effective altruism colorblindness debate colorblindness debate
JAN
5
2024
#348 — The Politics of Antisemitism
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 12 Hate: 50 40 minutes
Sam Harris
JAN
2
2024
#347 — Finding Sanity in 2024
9 minutes
Sam Harris
DEC
22
2023
#346 — The Best Kept Secret In History？
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 2 Hate: 19 39 minutes
Sam Harris Brian Murarescu mystery religions of the ancient world ancient mysteries Dionysus and Jesus parallels
DEC
18
2023
#345 — Resilience
Misogyny: 10 Toxicity: 34 Hate: 15 2 hours and 4 minutes
Sam Harris Amanda Knox resilience series language barrier false confessions
DEC
12
2023
#344 — The War in Gaza
Misogyny: 6 Toxicity: 133 Hate: 105 58 minutes
Sam Harris
DEC
6
2023
#343 — What Is ＂Islamophobia＂？
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 27 Hate: 25 11 minutes
Sam Harris Islamophobia
NOV
27
2023
#342 — Animal Minds & Moral Truths
Misogyny: 10 Toxicity: 11 Hate: 12 1 hour and 2 minutes
Sam Harris Animal Liberation Now speciesism animal experimentation ethics committees
NOV
16
2023
#341 — Gaza & Global Order
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 30 Hate: 39 54 minutes
Sam Harris Yuval Noah Harari global order unraveling
NOV
7
2023
#340 — The Bright Line Between Good and Evil
Misogyny: 11 Toxicity: 235 Hate: 127 59 minutes
Sam Harris jihadism and Israeli-Palestinian conflict
NOV
3
2023
#339 — The Infernal Logic of Jihad
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 14 Hate: 27 50 minutes
Sam Harris
OCT
12
2023
#338 — The Sin of Moral Equivalence
Toxicity: 11 Hate: 16 14 minutes
Sam Harris moral equivalence war crimes and cultural norms