Making Sense - Sam Harris


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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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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 (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)
Mentioned
Donald Trump (111) Trump (91) Hillary Clinton (54) Obama (53) Waking (45) Joe Biden (43) Biden (42) Hitler (42) Elon Musk (37) Joe Rogan (36) Alex Jones (35) Tucker Carlson (35) Steven Pinker (31) Putin (28) 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

MAY
12
2026
#475 — The Hard Problem of Consciousness
Toxicity: 1 25 minutes
Sam Harris psychedelics conversation psychedelics research politics
SEP
6
2024
#382 — The Eye of Nature
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 1 Hate: 9 39 minutes
Sam Harris Richard Dawkins palimpsest genetic book genotype vs phenotype
MAY
1
2024
#365 — Reality Check
Toxicity: 2 Hate: 3 51 minutes
Sam Harris Sweden vs. US pandemic response pandemic response lessons
DEC
11
2019
#178 — The Reality Illusion
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 1 Hate: 3 1 hour and 7 minutes
Sam Harris Donald Hoffman subscription model fitness payoffs in evolutionary theory fitness and perception illusions
NOV
4
2019
#174 — Life & Mind
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 4 Hate: 8 48 minutes
Sam Harris Richard Dawkins vaccinations & immunity limitations extended phenotype and evolution parasites & extended phenotypes
APR
25
2019
#154 — What Do Jihadists Really Want？ (2019)
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 67 Hate: 76 54 minutes
Sam Harris
JAN
16
2019
#146 — Digital Capitalism
44 minutes
Sam Harris Douglas Rushkoff digital capitalism
JUN
4
2018
#128 — Transformations of Mind
Misogyny: 16 Toxicity: 23 Hate: 9 1 hour and 9 minutes
Sam Harris Jeffrey Miller signaling consumer behavior Virtue Signal AI safety research
JUL
1
2017
#84 — Landscapes of Mind
Toxicity: 4 Hate: 6 45 minutes
Sam Harris Kevin Kelly
MAY
22
2017
#77 — The Moral Complexity of Genetics
Misogyny: 8 Toxicity: 10 Hate: 6 44 minutes
Sam Harris Siddhartha Mukherjee eugenics discussion
APR
10
2017
#70 — Beauty and Terror
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 9 Hate: 6 50 minutes
Sam Harris Lawrence Krauss book writing debate censorship religious group debates
JAN
21
2017
#62 — What is True？
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 7 Hate: 6 55 minutes
Sam Harris Jordan Peterson Free Speech issues truth and language game
AUG
17
2016
#43 — What Do Jihadists Really Want？
Misogyny: 4 Toxicity: 58 Hate: 86 48 minutes
Sam Harris jihadist beliefs and motivations martyrdom
MAY
19
2015
#10 — Faith vs. Fact
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 9 Hate: 12 24 minutes
Sam Harris