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

OCT
4
2023
#337 — The Future of Psychedelic Medicine
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 4 Hate: 12 1 hour and 42 minutes
Sam Harris Jeannie Fontana Treat California ballot initiative TREAT initiative TREAT California Campaign
SEP
27
2023
#336 — The Roots of Identity Politics
Misogyny: 14 Toxicity: 18 Hate: 27 1 hour and 2 minutes
Sam Harris Yasha Mauck curriculum changes at Stanford intersectionality structural racism definitions
SEP
22
2023
#335 — A Postmortem on My Response to Covid
Misogyny: 5 Toxicity: 62 Hate: 15 1 hour and 10 minutes
Sam Harris COVID Vaccine Mandates and COVID ethics perverse drug industry incentives
SEP
18
2023
#334 — The Low-Trust Society
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 10 Hate: 8 49 minutes
Sam Harris
SEP
5
2023
#333 — Sanity Check on Climate Change
Hate: 5 1 hour and 7 minutes
Sam Harris wildfires and climate change global temperatures measurement water vapor feedback loop
AUG
28
2023
#332 — Can We Contain Artificial Intelligence？
Hate: 1 55 minutes
Sam Harris containment problem
AUG
20
2023
#331 — A Golden Age for Assholes
Toxicity: 46 Hate: 6 9 minutes
Sam Harris
AUG
16
2023
#330 — The Doomsday Machine
Misogyny: 4 Toxicity: 8 Hate: 35 1 hour and 35 minutes
Sam Harris Carl Robichaux nuclear command and control vulnerabilities Taiwanese semiconductor supply chain risks digital nuclear infrastructure failures
AUG
12
2023
#329 — What Happened to the Republican Party？
Misogyny: 6 Toxicity: 59 Hate: 27 1 hour
Sam Harris Brett Stevens Republican Party changes public health messaging during COVID RFK Jr.. support anecdote
AUG
2
2023
#328 — Health & Longevity
Hate: 2 1 hour and 2 minutes
Sam Harris Peter Atiyah nutrition evolutionary limitations on health excess energy and weight loss
JUL
21
2023
#327 — Transformative Experiences
Hate: 5 49 minutes
Sam Harris experience value in calculus
JUL
6
2023
#326 — AI & Information Integrity
Misogyny: 5 Toxicity: 3 Hate: 4 49 minutes
Sam Harris Nina Schick regulating AI regulating AI content provenance
JUL
3
2023
#325 — A Few Thoughts About RFK Jr.
Toxicity: 7 Hate: 2 26 minutes
Sam Harris
JUN
28
2023
#324 — Debating the Future of AI
Toxicity: 17 Hate: 5 54 minutes
Sam Harris
JUN
22
2023
#323 — Science & Survival
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 8 Hate: 1 46 minutes
Sam Harris
JUN
13
2023
#322 — Predicting Reality
Toxicity: 3 Hate: 2 53 minutes
Sam Harris reframing emotions and predictive models
JUN
5
2023
#321 — Reckoning with Parfit
Misogyny: 3 Hate: 11 52 minutes
Sam Harris David Edmonds non-identity problem repugnant conclusion
MAY
22
2023
#320 — Constructing Self and World
51 minutes
Sam Harris
MAY
15
2023
#319 — The Digital Multiverse
Hate: 1 36 minutes
Sam Harris
MAY
1
2023
#318 — Physics & Philosophy
Misogyny: 1 Hate: 1 54 minutes
Sam Harris