Making Sense - Sam Harris


Show info


Episodes

519

Total time

388 hours and 54 minutes

Oldest episode

November 12, 2013

Most recent

September 24, 2026

Avg. length

46 minutes

Avg. words/min

167

Avg. word count

7,712

Avg. sentences

286.4

Avg. harmful content per episode

Misogyny

3.4

sentences flagged

Toxicity

12.8

sentences flagged

Hate speech

13.0

sentences flagged


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Hosts
Sam Harris (519)
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)
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Episodes

AUG
11
2026
#150 β€” The Map of Misunderstanding (From the Archive)
Toxicity: 7 Hate: 2 47 minutes
Sam Harris moral response to suffering cognitive ease and confabulation loss aversion
APR
1
2024
#361 β€” Sam Bankman-Fried & Effective Altruism
Toxicity: 6 Hate: 2 1 hour and 25 minutes
Sam Harris
MAY
22
2023
#320 β€” Constructing Self and World
51 minutes
Sam Harris
JAN
11
2023
#308 β€” The Long Game
Toxicity: 1 Hate: 1 34 minutes
Sam Harris
NOV
2
2021
#266 β€” The Limits of Pleasure
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 31 Hate: 7 47 minutes
Sam Harris Paul Bloom pain and suffering duration neglect
APR
29
2020
#200 β€” Creatures of Habit
Toxicity: 1 Hate: 3 32 minutes
Sam Harris James Clear habits habits and rebounding from challenges habits and their dynamics
APR
10
2020
#196 β€” The Science of Happiness
Misogyny: 4 Hate: 3 59 minutes
Sam Harris
MAR
2
2020
#189 β€” Wealth & Happiness
Misogyny: 12 Toxicity: 33 Hate: 21 1 hour and 11 minutes
Sam Harris wealth and happiness conversation wealth inequality wealth tax proposals
SEP
11
2019
#168 β€” Mind, Space, & Motion
Misogyny: 2 Hate: 3 36 minutes
Sam Harris Barbara Tversky spatial thinking foundations space and numbers embodiment
JUL
3
2019
#162 β€” Medical Intelligence
Toxicity: 8 Hate: 4 36 minutes
Sam Harris Portland Antifa protests medical malpractice encounters
APR
29
2019
#155 β€” Mental Models
Toxicity: 5 Hate: 3 48 minutes
Sam Harris subscription policy changes mental models online privacy
MAR
12
2019
#150 β€” The Map of Misunderstanding
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 8 Hate: 2 49 minutes
Sam Harris replication crisis in science framing and patient choices anticipated regret
JUL
25
2017
#89 β€” On Becoming a Better Person
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 6 Hate: 2 22 minutes
Sam Harris David Brooks The Road to Character values in tension sin and virtues
APR
14
2017
#71 β€” What Is Technology Doing to Us？
45 minutes
Sam Harris Tristan Harris persuasive technology ethics time on site metrics money
NOV
16
2016
#52 β€” Finding Our Way in the Cosmos
Toxicity: 1 44 minutes
Sam Harris peak end rule and colonoscopy anesthesia
JUL
29
2015
#14 β€” The Virtues of Cold Blood
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 4 Hate: 5 42 minutes
Sam Harris
No Date
Making Sense of Foundations of Morality ｜ Episode 3 of The Essential Sam Harris
Misogyny: 7 Toxicity: 13 Hate: 6
Sam Harris moral realism vs anti-realism proximity and moral obligation empathy and proximity in moral dilemmas
No Date
#360 β€” We Really Don’t Have Free Will？
Toxicity: 6 Hate: 3
Sam Harris