Making Sense - Sam Harris


Show info


Episodes

518

Total time

388 hours and 26 minutes

Oldest episode

November 12, 2013

Most recent

September 17, 2026

Avg. length

46 minutes

Avg. words/min

167

Avg. word count

7,717

Avg. sentences

286.6

Avg. harmful content per episode

Misogyny

3.4

sentences flagged

Toxicity

12.8

sentences flagged

Hate speech

13.0

sentences flagged


Topics & people

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Hosts
Sam Harris (518)
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 (110) Trump (91) Obama (53) Waking (45) Biden (42) Hitler (42) Hillary Clinton (41) Elon Musk (37) Joe Biden (37) Alex Jones (34) Tucker Carlson (34) Kamala Harris (33) Steven Pinker (30) Putin (28) Joe Rogan (26) Richard Dawkins (26) Christopher Hitchens (25) Vladimir Putin (24) George W. Bush (23) Majid Nawaz (23) Ayaan Hirsi Ali (22) Bill Maher (22) Clinton (21) Nick Bostrom (21) Hunter Biden (20)
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Episodes

MAR
24
2026
#466 β€” What Is Technology Doing to Us？
Toxicity: 12 Hate: 1 18 minutes
Sam Harris Nicholas Christakis
JUL
25
2025
#427 β€” AI Friends & Enemies
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 9 Hate: 8 23 minutes
Sam Harris Paul Bloom
JAN
16
2024
#349 β€” Generosity, Cynicism, and the Future of Doing Good
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 9 Hate: 9 1 hour and 2 minutes
Sam Harris Chris Anderson
JUL
21
2023
#327 β€” Transformative Experiences
Hate: 5 49 minutes
Sam Harris
SEP
9
2022
#295 β€” Philosophy and the Good Life
Misogyny: 1 Hate: 3 44 minutes
Sam Harris
AUG
31
2022
#294 β€” Status Games
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 7 Hate: 5 40 minutes
Sam Harris
DEC
14
2021
#270 β€” What Have We Learned from the Pandemic？
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 26 Hate: 35 2 hours and 51 minutes
Sam Harris Nicholas Christakis
NOV
2
2021
#266 β€” The Limits of Pleasure
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 31 Hate: 7 47 minutes
Sam Harris Paul Bloom
OCT
8
2020
#219 β€” The Power of Compassion
Misogyny: 4 Toxicity: 5 Hate: 6 48 minutes
Sam Harris James Doty
JUL
17
2020
#211 β€” The Nature of Human Nature
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 4 Hate: 5 1 hour and 12 minutes
Sam Harris Robert Plowman
JUN
23
2020
#208 β€” Existential Risk
1 hour and 4 minutes
Sam Harris
APR
16
2020
#198 β€” A Conversation with Paul Bloom
Misogyny: 3 Toxicity: 26 Hate: 11 58 minutes
Sam Harris
MAR
17
2020
#192 β€” A Conversation with Paul Bloom
Toxicity: 12 Hate: 8 37 minutes
Sam Harris
MAY
30
2019
#158 β€” Understanding Humans in the Wild
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 4 Hate: 2 58 minutes
Sam Harris Adam Grant
JAN
28
2019
#147 β€” Stephen Fry
Misogyny: 1 Toxicity: 20 Hate: 3 45 minutes
Sam Harris Stephen Fry
SEP
21
2017
#98 β€” Into the Dark Land
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 4 29 minutes
Sam Harris
DEC
12
2016
#56 β€” Abusing Dolores
Misogyny: 4 Toxicity: 15 Hate: 18 1 hour and 9 minutes
Sam Harris
JAN
4
2016
#24 β€” Ask Me Anything 2
Misogyny: 5 Toxicity: 53 Hate: 49 45 minutes
Sam Harris
AUG
26
2015
#16 β€” The Dark Side
Misogyny: 2 Toxicity: 15 Hate: 6 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