Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris

Join neuroscientist, philosopher, and five-time New York Times best-selling author Sam Harris as he explores important and controversial questions about the mind, society, current events, moral philosophy, religion, and rationality—with an…

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#490 — Lies, Bulls**t, and the Rule of Law 2026-08-25 · 24m Read →
#489 — More From Sam: A Fabulist at Cambridge, the Strait of Hormuz, AOC in 2028, and More 2026-08-21 · 24m
#150 — The Map of Misunderstanding (From the Archive) 2026-08-11 · 48m
#488 — Ego, Ecstasy, and Equanimity 2026-08-04 · 13m
#487 — Is AI Already Conscious? 2026-07-31 · 86m
#486 — Luck All the Way Down 2026-07-22 · 21m
#485 — The New Science of Cancer 2026-07-14 · 81m
#484 — Artificial Intimacy 2026-07-08 · 27m
#483 — The Knots We Tie Ourselves Into 2026-07-01 · 23m
#482 — More From Sam: The Iran Deal, College in the AI Age, Mamdani's DSA, and More 2026-06-25 · 22m
#481 — Sam Harris Receives the 2026 Richard Dawkins Award 2026-06-17 · 55m
#480 — The Economics of Everything 2026-06-12 · 25m
#479 — When Robots Take Over 2026-06-04 · 15m
#478 — The Psychedelic Mind 2026-05-29 · 30m
#477 — More From Sam: Iran's Unraveling, The Gaza Information War, AI-Generated Music, and More 2026-05-26 · 22m
#476 — The Bittersweet Age 2026-05-20 · 23m
#475 — The Hard Problem of Consciousness 2026-05-12 · 26m
#474 — More From Sam: Hasan Piker, Islamism, Making Sense Community, and More 2026-05-07 · 17m
#473 — Money, Power, and Moral Failure 2026-04-29 · 22m
#472 — Strange Days on the Right 2026-04-24 · 16m
#471 — The End of History, Revisited 2026-04-16 · 19m
#470 — Democrats at a Crossroads 2026-04-13 · 22m
#469 — Escaping an Anti-Human Future 2026-04-10 · 109m
#468 — More From Sam: Gratitude, Bad Conversations, Conspiracy Addiction, Waffle House Teleportation, and More 2026-04-07 · 33m
#467 — EA, AI, and the End of Work 2026-03-30 · 30m
#466 — What Is Technology Doing to Us? 2026-03-24 · 19m
#465 — More From Sam: Iran, Jihadism, Conspiracism, AI Disruption, the Manosphere, and More 2026-03-18 · 36m
#464 — The Politics of Pragmatism and the Future of California 2026-03-16 · 82m
#463 — Privatizing the Apocalypse 2026-03-11 · 22m
#462 — More From Sam: The Iran War, American Amorality, Addressing Hopelessness, Tucker, and More 2026-03-06 · 20m
#461 — Dictators Always Tell You What They'll Do 2026-02-25 · 29m
#460 — When the Center Cannot Hold 2026-02-20 · 22m
#459 — More From Sam: Corruption, Immigration, The End of White-Collar Work, and More 2026-02-13 · 10m
#458 — The Bulwark Against MAGA 2026-02-11 · 59m
#457 — More From Sam: The Epstein Files, The Newsom Factor, Don Lemon's Arrest, AI Market Disruption, and More 2026-02-05 · 16m
#456 — American Fascism 2026-02-04 · 21m
#455 — More From Sam: Guns, Propaganda, AI, and Power Unbound 2026-01-30 · 12m
#454 — More From Sam: Minnesota, Greenland, Iran, S**thole Countries, and More 2026-01-21 · 17m
#453 — AI and the New Face of Antisemitism 2026-01-16 · 22m
#452 — Is Wokeness Finally Dead? 2026-01-07 · 21m
#451 — The One Resolution That Matters Most 2025-12-31 · 9m
#450 — More From Sam: Resolutions, Conspiracies, Demonology, and the Fate of the World 2025-12-30 · 28m
#449 — Dogma, Tribe, and Truth 2025-12-22 · 23m
#448 — The Philosophy of Good and Evil 2025-12-08 · 25m
#447 — The Unraveling of American Power 2025-12-04 · 20m
#446 — How to Do the Most Good 2025-12-01 · 22m
#445 — More From Sam: Marjorie Taylor Greene, Billionaires, Thanksgiving Political Debates, & Rapid Fire Questions 2025-11-26 · 19m
#444 — America's Zombie Democracy 2025-11-17 · 21m
#443 — What Is Christian Nationalism? 2025-11-10 · 120m
#442 — More From Sam: Public Speaking, Nuclear War, & Christian Nationalism 2025-11-03 · 18m
#441 — The Threat of Civil War 2025-10-31 · 22m
#440 — A World in Crisis 2025-10-24 · 25m
#439 — How to Lose a Democracy 2025-10-14 · 23m
#438 — "More From Sam": Israel-Hamas Deal, Qatari Air Force Base, Trump, Charlie Kirk, Ezra Klein, & Rapid Fire Questions 2025-10-11 · 28m
#437 — Two Years Since 10/7 2025-10-06 · 20m
#436 — A Crisis of Trust 2025-10-03 · 25m
#435 — The Last Invention 2025-10-02 · 37m
#434 — Can We Survive AI? 2025-09-16 · 36m
#433 — How Did We Get Here? 2025-09-06 · 22m
#432 — The Undoing of America 2025-08-27 · 26m
#431 — What Is Happening on College Campuses? 2025-08-25 · 23m
#430 — "More From Sam": Trump, Gavin Newsom, Class War, DOGE, & Rapid Fire Questions 2025-08-22 · 15m
#429 — The New World Order 2025-08-11 · 27m
#428 — Political Extremism 2025-08-07 · 27m
#427 — AI Friends & Enemies 2025-07-25 · 23m
#426 — How Bad Is It? 2025-07-23 · 28m
#425 — Are We Prepared for the Next Pandemic? 2025-07-21 · 27m
#424 — "More From Sam": Nazi Grok, ICE, Epstein, Social Media, Rapid Fire Questions 2025-07-16 · 27m
#423 — "More From Sam": Democracy, Populism, Wealth Inequality, News-Induced Anxiety, & Rapid Fire Questions 2025-07-08 · 19m
#422 — Zionism & Jihadism 2025-06-19 · 124m
#421 — "More From Sam": Political Violence, Iran, Deportations, Protests, & Rapid Fire Questions 2025-06-17 · 18m
#420 — Countdown to Superintelligence 2025-06-12 · 20m
#419 — "More From Sam": Elon vs. Trump, Religion, Jordan Peterson, & Rapid Fire Questions 2025-06-06 · 15m
#418 — A Future for Democrats 2025-06-02 · 46m
#417 — Philosophy for Life 2025-05-28 · 23m
#416 — "More From Sam": Biden's Big Lie, Review of Tapper Interview, Trump, & a Case Against Israel's Actions in Gaza 2025-05-23 · 20m
#415 — The Cover-Up 2025-05-21 · 24m
#414 — Strange Truths 2025-05-12 · 23m
#413 — "More From Sam": Trump & Israel, Corruption, Free Speech Violations, the Democrats, & Ezra Klein 2025-05-06 · 27m
#412 — Better Things & Better People 2025-05-02 · 27m
#411 — The Victimhood Pandemic 2025-04-25 · 31m
#410 — The Whole Catastrophe 2025-04-20 · 68m
#409 — "More From Sam": Religion, Deportations, Douglas Murray vs. Rogan, & Bill Maher's Dinner with Trump 2025-04-16 · 49m
#408 — Finding Equanimity in Chaos 2025-04-14 · 110m
#407 — Can We Ever Return to Normal Politics? 2025-04-09 · 20m
#406 — The Legacy of Christianity 2025-04-07 · 25m
#405 — "More From Sam": Tariffs, SignalGate, Trump, Elon, Douglas Murray, & Joe Rogan 2025-04-04 · 20m
#404 — What If Consciousness Is Fundamental? 2025-03-25 · 141m
#403 — Sanity Check on Trump 2.0 2025-03-10 · 37m
#402 — The Geopolitics of Trump 2.0 2025-02-28 · 33m
#401 — Christian Nationalism and the New Right 2025-02-18 · 33m
#400 — The Politics of Information 2025-02-06 · 37m
#399 — The Politics of Catastrophe 2025-01-27 · 76m
#398 — Thoughts Without a Thinker 2025-01-21 · 25m
#397 — A New Year's Message from Sam 2025-01-01 · 18m
#396 — The Way Forward 2024-12-20 · 33m
#395 — Intellectual Authority and Its Discontents 2024-12-11 · 31m
#394 — Bringing Back the Mammoth 2024-12-03 · 23m
#393 — Is History Repeating Itself? 2024-11-26 · 38m
#392 — Technology & Culture 2024-11-19 · 53m
#391 — The Reckoning 2024-11-11 · 40m
#390 — Final Thoughts on the 2024 Presidential Election 2024-11-01 · 74m
#389 — The Politics of Risk 2024-10-25 · 34m
#388 — What Is Life? 2024-10-21 · 47m
#387 — Politics & Power 2024-10-15 · 45m
#386 — Information & Social Order 2024-10-07 · 47m
#385 — AI Utopia 2024-09-30 · 39m
#384 — Stress Testing Our Democracy 2024-09-23 · 41m
#383 — Where Are the Grown-Ups? 2024-09-17 · 24m
#382 — The Eye of Nature 2024-09-06 · 40m
#381 — Delusions, Right and Left 2024-08-26 · 47m
#380 — The Roots of Attention 2024-08-23 · 45m
#379 — Regulating Artificial Intelligence 2024-08-12 · 34m
#378 — Digital Delusions 2024-08-02 · 57m
#377 — The Future of Psychedelic Medicine 2 2024-07-26 · 76m
#376 — How Democracies Fail 2024-07-19 · 68m
#375 — On the Attempted Assassination of President Trump 2024-07-16 · 14m
#374 — Consciousness and the Physical World 2024-07-09 · 42m
#373 — Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism 2024-07-02 · 102m
#372 — Life & Work 2024-06-24 · 42m
#371 — What the Hell Is Happening? 2024-06-14 · 44m
#370 — Gender Apartheid and the Future of Iran 2024-06-06 · 81m
#369 — Escaping Death 2024-05-30 · 34m
#368 — Freedom & Censorship 2024-05-21 · 43m
#367 — Campus Protests, Antisemitism, and Western Values 2024-05-13 · 54m
#366 — Urban Warfare 2.0 2024-05-07 · 99m
#365 — Reality Check 2024-05-01 · 52m
#364 — Facts & Values 2024-04-23 · 28m
#363 — Knowledge Work 2024-04-15 · 52m
#362 — Six Months of War 2024-04-09 · 54m
#361 — Sam Bankman-Fried & Effective Altruism 2024-04-01 · 85m
#360 — We Really Don't Have Free Will? 2024-03-27 · 39m
#359 — Getting Used to It 2024-03-19 · 31m
#358 — The War in Ukraine 2024-03-11 · 36m
#357 — America & World Order 2024-03-04 · 32m
#356 — Islam & Freedom 2024-02-28 · 29m
#355 — A Falling World 2024-02-21 · 49m
#354 — Is Moral Progress a Fantasy? 2024-02-16 · 41m
#353 — Race & Reason 2024-02-11 · 56m
#352 — Hubris & Chaos 2024-02-04 · 30m
#351 — 5 Myths about Israel and the War in Gaza 2024-01-30 · 43m
#350 — Sharing Reality 2024-01-23 · 43m
#349 — Generosity, Cynicism, and the Future of Doing Good 2024-01-16 · 63m
#348 — The Politics of Antisemitism 2024-01-05 · 40m
#347 — Finding Sanity in 2024 2024-01-02 · 9m
#346 — The Best Kept Secret In History? 2023-12-22 · 40m
#345 — Resilience 2023-12-18 · 124m
#344 — The War in Gaza 2023-12-12 · 59m
#343 — What Is "Islamophobia"? 2023-12-06 · 12m
#342 — Animal Minds & Moral Truths 2023-11-27 · 62m
#341 — Gaza & Global Order 2023-11-16 · 55m
#340 — The Bright Line Between Good and Evil 2023-11-07 · 59m
#339 — The Infernal Logic of Jihad 2023-11-03 · 51m
#338 — The Sin of Moral Equivalence 2023-10-12 · 14m
#337 — The Future of Psychedelic Medicine 2023-10-04 · 102m
#336 — The Roots of Identity Politics 2023-09-27 · 62m
#335 — A Postmortem on My Response to Covid 2023-09-22 · 71m
#334 — The Low-Trust Society 2023-09-18 · 50m
#333 — Sanity Check on Climate Change 2023-09-05 · 68m
#332 — Can We Contain Artificial Intelligence? 2023-08-28 · 55m
#331 — A Golden Age for Assholes 2023-08-20 · 9m
#330 — The Doomsday Machine 2023-08-16 · 96m
#329 — What Happened to the Republican Party? 2023-08-12 · 61m
#328 — Health & Longevity 2023-08-02 · 63m
#327 — Transformative Experiences 2023-07-21 · 50m
#326 — AI & Information Integrity 2023-07-06 · 49m
#325 — A Few Thoughts About RFK Jr. 2023-07-03 · 27m
#324 — Debating the Future of AI 2023-06-28 · 54m
#323 — Science & Survival 2023-06-22 · 46m
Making Sense of Meditation | Episode 10 of The Essential Sam Harris 2023-06-18 · 40m
#322 — Predicting Reality 2023-06-13 · 54m
#321 — Reckoning with Parfit 2023-06-05 · 52m
Making Sense of Death | Episode 9 of The Essential Sam Harris 2023-05-26 · 41m
#320 — Constructing Self and World 2023-05-22 · 51m
#319 — The Digital Multiverse 2023-05-15 · 37m
Making Sense of Social Media and the Information Landscape | Episode 8 of The Essential Sam Harris 2023-05-05 · 45m
#318 — Physics & Philosophy 2023-05-01 · 54m
#317 — What Do We Know About Our Minds? 2023-04-20 · 68m
#316 — Self-Defense: Reality and Fantasy 2023-04-14 · 55m
Making Sense of Existential Threat and Nuclear War | Episode 7 of The Essential Sam Harris 2023-04-12 · 50m
#315 — The Great Derangement 2023-04-07 · 60m
#314 — The Cancellation of J.K. Rowling 2023-03-31 · 54m
#313 — Apocalypse 2023-03-25 · 35m
Making Sense of Belief and Unbelief | Episode 6 of The Essential Sam Harris 2023-03-15 · 63m
#312 — The Trouble with AI 2023-03-07 · 87m
#311 — Did SARS-CoV-2 Escape from a Lab? 2023-02-20 · 58m
Making Sense of Free Will | Episode 5 of The Essential Sam Harris 2023-02-14 · 44m
#310 — Social Media & Public Trust 2023-02-01 · 69m
Making Sense of Encounters With Violence | Episode 4 of The Essential Sam Harris 2023-01-26 · 36m
#309 — Vulnerability, Politics, and Moral Worth 2023-01-20 · 45m
#308 — The Long Game 2023-01-11 · 34m
Making Sense of Foundations of Morality | Episode 3 of The Essential Sam Harris 2023-01-05 · 45m
#307 — Twitter, Elon, & Free Speech 2022-12-30 · 28m
Making Sense of Consciousness | Episode 2 of The Essential Sam Harris 2022-12-15 · 35m
#306 — Psychedelics & Mortality 2022-12-13 · 105m
#305 — Moral Knowledge 2022-12-08 · 67m
#304 — Why I Left Twitter 2022-11-28 · 70m
Making Sense of Artificial Intelligence | Episode 1 of The Essential Sam Harris 2022-11-22 · 68m
#303 — The Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried 2022-11-15 · 21m
#302 — Science & Civilization 2022-11-11 · 50m
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