Making Sense with Sam Harris

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Join neuroscientist, philosopher, and best-selling author Sam Harris as he explores important and controversial questions about the human mind, society, and current events. Sam Harris is the author of five New York Times bestsellers. His books include The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying, Waking Up, and Islam and the Future of Tolerance (with Maajid Nawaz). The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. His writing and public lectures cover a wide range of topics—neuroscience, moral philosophy, religion, meditation practice, human violence, rationality—but generally focus on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live. Harris's work has been published in more than 20 languages and has been discussed in The New York Times, Time, Scientific American, Nature, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and many other journals. He has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Economist, The Times (London), The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The Annals of Neurology, and elsewhere. Sam Harris received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.

Episodes

Title Duration Published Consumed
#273 — Joe Rogan and the Ethics of Apology 00:20:27 2022-02-07 21:19
Vaccine Mandates, transgender athletes, billionaires… (AMA #19) 00:28:48 2022-01-31 21:26
#272 — On Disappointing My Audience 00:46:44 2022-01-11 02:01
#271 — Earning to Give 01:15:30 2021-12-24 20:16
#270 — What Have We Learned from the Pandemic? 02:51:28 2021-12-14 18:37
#269 — Deep Time 00:40:04 2021-12-03 19:18
#268 — The Limits of Self-Knowledge 00:36:29 2021-11-24 18:53
#267 — The Kingdom of Sleep 00:49:44 2021-11-10 19:50
#266 — The Limits of Pleasure 00:47:14 2021-11-02 20:29
#265 — The Religion of Anti-Racism 00:35:16 2021-10-27 18:08
#264 — Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast) 00:48:21 2021-10-21 19:36
#263 — The Paradox of Death 00:18:03 2021-10-18 17:56
#262 — The Future of American Democracy 00:33:04 2021-10-06 01:21
#261 — Belief & Identity 00:40:24 2021-10-01 01:19
Absolutely Mental Season Two 00:16:36 2021-09-24 21:25
Ask Me Anything #18 00:28:16 2021-09-20 18:09
#260 — The Second Plane 00:16:27 2021-09-09 23:43
#259 — The Reckoning to Come 01:12:59 2021-09-01 03:11
#258 — The Fall of Afghanistan 00:46:54 2021-08-23 03:06
#257 — The State of the World 01:01:11 2021-08-14 00:11
Ask Me Anything #17 00:24:16 2021-08-08 18:25
#256 — A Contagion of Bad Ideas 01:26:55 2021-07-23 18:33
#255 — The Future of Intelligence 00:58:01 2021-07-09 19:36
#254 — The Mating Strategies of Earthlings 00:49:23 2021-06-25 22:20
#253 — Corporate Courage 00:45:03 2021-06-17 22:01
#252 — Are We Alone in the Universe? 00:52:06 2021-06-10 21:40
#251 — Corporate Cowardice 00:39:17 2021-05-27 00:50
#250 — Broken Conversations 00:45:24 2021-05-21 19:17
#249 — Distance & Arrival 00:33:04 2021-05-14 16:31
#248 — Order & Freedom 00:38:39 2021-04-30 22:04
Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse 03:41:22 2021-04-24 02:35
#247 — Constructing Minds 01:07:38 2021-04-22 03:32
#246 — Police Training & Police Misconduct 01:41:55 2021-04-16 16:52
#245 — Can We Talk About Scary Ideas? 00:42:48 2021-04-13 01:13
#244 — Food, Climate, and Pandemic Risk 01:12:58 2021-04-07 01:52
#243 — A Few Points of Confusion 00:09:42 2021-03-28 17:03
#242 — Psychedelics and the Self 01:03:38 2021-03-24 00:47
#241 — Final Thoughts on Free Will 00:43:55 2021-03-13 00:33
#240 — The Boundaries of Self 00:43:57 2021-03-07 23:45
#239 — Yet Another Call from Ricky Gervais 00:21:37 2021-02-24 23:36
#238 — How to Build a Universe 00:59:13 2021-02-23 01:48
#237 — Another Call from Ricky Gervais 00:42:21 2021-02-17 00:56
#236 — Rebooting New York City 00:48:19 2021-02-11 23:34
#235 — A Call from Ricky Gervais 00:29:19 2021-02-10 18:59
#234 — The Divided Mind 00:54:53 2021-02-06 00:27
#233 — The Groves of Misinformation 00:50:55 2021-02-02 02:38
#232 — Inequality and Revolution 00:41:57 2021-01-27 04:22
#231 — Crossing the Abyss 01:14:08 2021-01-17 20:10
#230 — An Insurrection of Lies 00:41:18 2021-01-11 20:57
#229 — A Few Thoughts for a New Year 00:29:42 2021-01-06 01:37
#228 — Doing Good 02:14:44 2020-12-14 21:35
#227 — Knowing the Mind 00:46:49 2020-12-07 22:37
Making Sense with Sam Harris 00:01:42 2020-12-07 16:55
#226 — The Price of Distraction 00:44:18 2020-11-28 00:04
#225 — Republic of Lies 00:31:35 2020-11-18 23:54
#224 — The Key to Trump's Appeal 00:08:23 2020-11-03 03:20
#223 — A Conversation with Andrew Sullivan 01:35:35 2020-10-30 21:58
#222 — A Pandemic of Incompetence 01:05:01 2020-10-28 01:18
#221 — Success, Failure, & the Common Good 00:46:48 2020-10-22 23:10
#220 - The Information Apocalypse 00:47:59 2020-10-17 18:25
#219 — The Power of Compassion 00:48:17 2020-10-09 01:21
#218 — Welcome to the Cult Factory 00:47:22 2020-09-25 01:51
#217 — The New Religion of Anti-Racism 01:11:49 2020-09-18 00:45
#216 — A Conversation with Graeme Wood 00:50:50 2020-09-04 00:13
#215 — A Conversation with David Miliband 00:49:26 2020-08-21 23:54
#214 — A Conversation with Siddhartha Mukherjee 00:46:29 2020-08-13 23:01
#213 — The Worst Epidemic 02:14:02 2020-08-04 03:06
#212 — A Conversation with Kathryn Paige Harden 00:48:37 2020-07-30 00:59
#211 — The Nature of Human Nature 01:12:02 2020-07-17 19:53
#210 — The Logic of Doomsday 01:46:04 2020-07-09 20:12
#209 — A Good Life 00:57:34 2020-07-04 01:50
#208 — Existential Risk 01:04:50 2020-06-23 22:14
#207 — Can We Pull Back From The Brink? 01:52:45 2020-06-13 02:09
#206 — A Conversation with David Frum 00:44:36 2020-05-26 23:03
#205 — The Failure of Meritocracy 00:58:59 2020-05-22 21:40
#204 — A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt 01:05:40 2020-05-18 16:31
#203 — A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan 01:07:40 2020-05-14 01:40
#202 — A Conversation with Andrew Yang 00:38:02 2020-05-11 18:22
#201 — A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari 01:08:56 2020-05-01 22:06
#200 — Creatures of Habit 00:32:33 2020-04-29 23:47
#199 — A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan 00:37:59 2020-04-24 02:09
#198 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom 00:58:50 2020-04-17 00:41
#197 — A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan 00:30:36 2020-04-13 01:04
#196 — The Science of Happiness 00:59:41 2020-04-10 21:30
#195 — Social Cohesion is Everything 01:08:12 2020-04-06 20:25
#194 — The New Future of Work 01:44:50 2020-03-25 02:27
#193 — Meditation in an Emergency 00:21:32 2020-03-20 19:09
#192 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom 00:37:34 2020-03-17 22:55
#191 — Early Thoughts on a Pandemic 01:06:13 2020-03-11 16:55
#190 — How Should We Respond to Coronavirus? 01:18:37 2020-03-10 14:07
#189 — Wealth & Happiness 01:11:16 2020-03-02 21:24
#188 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom 00:32:19 2020-02-28 15:34
#187 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom 00:27:46 2020-02-21 01:26
#186 — The Bomb 01:19:35 2020-02-18 01:22
#185 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom 00:30:04 2020-02-07 20:52
#184 — The Conversational Nature of Reality 00:29:20 2020-02-03 23:05
#183 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom 00:27:32 2020-01-28 22:41
#182 — Unlearning Race 00:39:36 2020-01-23 23:17
#181 — The Illusory Self 01:32:25 2020-01-13 20:02
#180 — Sex & Power 00:48:17 2019-12-30 01:53
#179 — The Unquiet Mind 00:34:01 2019-12-17 15:21
#178 — The Reality Illusion 01:07:11 2019-12-11 22:36
#177 — Psychedelic Science 01:26:52 2019-12-02 18:59
#176 — Knowledge & Redemption 01:03:55 2019-11-23 21:23
#175 — Leaving the Faith 00:36:59 2019-11-11 19:32
#174 — Life & Mind 00:48:52 2019-11-04 17:46
#173 — Anti-Semitism and Its Discontents 00:28:05 2019-10-28 18:10
#172 — Among the Deplorables 00:51:31 2019-10-21 21:52
#171 — Escaping a Christian Cult 00:42:06 2019-10-08 23:33
#170 — The Great Uncoupling 00:47:10 2019-10-02 19:28
#169 — Omens of a Race War 00:43:00 2019-09-20 15:04
#168 — Mind, Space, & Motion 00:36:33 2019-09-11 20:13
#167 — A Few Thoughts on White Supremacy 00:17:10 2019-08-26 18:22
#166 — The Plague Years 00:25:01 2019-08-21 06:57
#165 — Journey into Wokeness 01:01:21 2019-08-14 03:18
#164 — Cause & Effect 00:49:15 2019-08-05 15:02
#163 — Ricky Gervais 00:55:21 2019-07-12 18:23
#162 — Medical Intelligence 00:35:30 2019-07-03 17:43
#161 — Rise & Fall 00:42:38 2019-06-24 17:21
#160 — The Revenge of History 00:57:21 2019-06-17 17:49
#159 — Conscious 00:30:25 2019-06-06 03:08
#158 — Understanding Humans in the Wild 00:58:01 2019-05-30 06:04
#157 — What Does the Mueller Report Really Say? 00:35:28 2019-05-20 17:31
#156 — The Evolution of Culture 00:39:56 2019-05-13 18:03
#155 — Mental Models 00:48:27 2019-04-29 23:53
#154 — What Do Jihadists Really Want? (2019) 00:21:06 2019-04-25 02:14
#153 — Possible Minds 01:37:55 2019-04-15 16:33
#152 — The Trouble with Facebook 00:49:55 2019-03-27 19:34
#151 — Will We Destroy the Future? 00:42:08 2019-03-18 17:32
#150 — The Map of Misunderstanding 00:49:45 2019-03-12 21:08
#149 — The Problem of Addiction 00:39:59 2019-03-04 17:41
#148 — Jack Dorsey 00:35:53 2019-02-05 17:30
#147 — Stephen Fry 00:49:59 2019-01-28 17:44
#146 — Digital Capitalism 00:44:01 2019-01-16 21:36
#145 — The Information War 00:31:02 2019-01-02 19:35
The Drive Interview with Peter Attia 02:54:06 2018-12-20 15:51
#144 — Conquering Hate 01:09:50 2018-12-07 20:41
#143 — The Keys to the Mind 00:41:51 2018-11-21 15:48
#142 — Addiction, Depression, and a Meaningful Life 00:47:00 2018-11-13 02:08
#141— Is #MeToo Going Too Far? 00:39:13 2018-11-05 15:28
The TED Interview 01:07:05 2018-10-31 00:05
#140 — Burning Down the Fourth Estate 00:45:16 2018-10-17 21:13
#139 — Sacred & Profane 00:41:55 2018-10-03 19:26
Introducing Waking Up 00:10:25 2018-09-25 04:45
#138 — The Edge of Humanity 00:49:09 2018-09-20 04:32
#137 — Safe Space 00:39:42 2018-09-10 04:53
#136 — Digital Humanism 00:27:10 2018-08-30 06:01
#135 — Navigating Sex and Gender 00:36:30 2018-08-20 17:41
#134 — Beyond the Politics of Race 00:49:48 2018-07-29 16:57
#133 — Globalism on the Brink 00:23:35 2018-07-19 00:12
#132 — Freeing the Hostages 00:25:53 2018-07-09 19:06
#131 — Dictators, Immigration, #MeToo, and Other Imponderables 00:36:01 2018-07-03 02:31
#130 — Universal Basic Income 00:24:11 2018-06-19 02:52
#129 — An Insider’s View of Medicine 00:27:51 2018-06-12 05:30
#128 — Transformations of Mind 01:08:20 2018-06-05 00:17
#127 — Freedom from the Known 00:38:03 2018-05-28 05:15
#126 — In Defense of Honor 00:49:33 2018-05-08 06:25
#125 — What Is Christianity? 00:48:47 2018-05-02 01:05
#124 — In Search of Reality 00:46:36 2018-04-21 08:43
#123 — Identity & Honesty 00:52:05 2018-04-09 12:00
#122 — Extreme Housekeeping Edition 00:17:24 2018-04-03 18:19
#121 — White Power 01:00:03 2018-03-25 04:50
#120 — What Is and What Matters 00:50:02 2018-03-19 01:02
#119 — Hidden Motives 00:59:23 2018-03-12 19:09
# 118 — The View from Trumpistan 00:28:14 2018-02-28 00:34
#117 — Networks, Power, and Chaos 00:40:33 2018-02-19 01:11
The Russell Brand Interview 02:01:01 2018-02-09 02:15
#116 — AI: Racing Toward the Brink 00:55:22 2018-02-06 01:38
#115 — Sam Harris, Lawrence Krauss, and Matt Dillahunty (1) 00:38:42 2018-01-29 05:48
#114 — Politics and Sanity 00:50:08 2018-01-22 08:08
#113 — Consciousness and the Self 01:43:19 2018-01-09 04:54
#112 — The Intellectual Dark Web 00:55:24 2018-01-02 05:28
#111 — The Science of Meditation 00:41:27 2017-12-28 06:33
#110 — The Change Artist 00:44:55 2017-12-23 20:43
#109— Biology and Culture 00:55:16 2017-12-19 02:39
#108 — Defending the Experts 00:42:19 2017-12-14 02:25
#107 — Is Life Actually Worth Living? 00:48:12 2017-12-06 01:46
#106 — Humanity 2.0 00:18:30 2017-11-29 03:43
#105 — Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Matt Dillahunty 00:37:32 2017-11-20 04:54
#104 — The Lessons of Death 00:27:45 2017-11-15 04:25
#103 — American Fantasies 00:25:00 2017-11-09 02:03
#102 — Is Buddhism True? 00:54:53 2017-10-30 19:05
#101 — Defending the Republic 00:32:40 2017-10-17 08:31
#100 — Facing the Crowd 00:38:53 2017-10-10 01:50
The "After On" Interview 01:47:58 2017-10-06 05:50
#99 — What Happened to Liberalism? 00:31:30 2017-09-28 08:24
#98 — Into the Dark Land 00:29:32 2017-09-21 04:17
#97 — The Impossible War 00:24:46 2017-09-15 02:06
#96 — The Nature of Consciousness 00:50:13 2017-09-11 00:16
#95 — What You Need to Know About Climate Change 00:45:48 2017-09-05 21:08
#94 — Frontiers of Intelligence 00:36:13 2017-08-29 18:18
#93 — Identity & Terror 00:39:00 2017-08-22 00:11
#92 — The Limits of Persuasion 00:59:25 2017-08-16 18:39
#91 — The Biology of Good and Evil 00:42:30 2017-08-09 17:40
#90 — Living With Violence 01:00:44 2017-08-06 18:09
#89 — On Becoming a Better Person 00:21:47 2017-07-25 19:39
#88 — Must We Accept a Nuclear North Korea? 00:26:26 2017-07-21 19:09
#87 — Triggered 00:52:12 2017-07-19 08:38
#86 — From Cells to Cities 00:49:47 2017-07-14 17:27
#85 — Is this the End of Europe? 00:39:46 2017-07-07 19:14
#84 — Landscapes of Mind 00:45:03 2017-07-01 08:08
#83 — The Politics of Emergency 00:38:08 2017-06-23 09:19
#82 — The End of the World According to ISIS 00:42:16 2017-06-15 18:20
#81 — Leaving Islam 00:49:05 2017-06-10 01:54
#80 — The Unraveling 00:24:29 2017-06-04 08:26
#79 — The Road to Tyranny 00:30:40 2017-05-30 01:39
#78 — Persuasion and Control 00:40:01 2017-05-26 19:50
#77 — The Moral Complexity of Genetics 00:43:28 2017-05-22 18:40
#76 — The Path to Impeachment 00:39:03 2017-05-18 22:07
#75 — Ask Me Anything 7 00:58:13 2017-05-12 22:36
#74 — What Should We Eat? 00:46:17 2017-05-06 22:30
#73 — Forbidden Knowledge 00:50:07 2017-04-23 08:32
#72 — Privacy and Security 00:13:20 2017-04-18 01:38
#71 — What Is Technology Doing to Us? 00:45:26 2017-04-14 23:30
#70 — Beauty and Terror 00:49:35 2017-04-10 09:50
#69 — The Russia Connection 00:36:35 2017-03-24 06:55
#68 — Reality and the Imagination 00:38:06 2017-03-19 17:24
#67 — Meaning and Chaos 00:44:29 2017-03-13 21:51
#66 — Living with Robots 00:24:03 2017-03-01 06:01
#65 — We're All Cucks Now 00:25:10 2017-02-20 17:50
#64 — Ask Me Anything 6 01:26:35 2017-02-16 05:48
#63 — Why Meditate? 00:47:43 2017-01-31 18:12
#62 — What is True? 00:54:37 2017-01-21 16:55
#61 — The Power of Belief 00:48:45 2017-01-15 18:00
#60 — An Evening with Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris (2) 00:36:01 2017-01-10 08:47
#59 — Friend & Foe 00:48:19 2017-01-05 09:23
#58 — The Putin Question 00:40:53 2016-12-27 18:27
#57 — An Evening with Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris (1) 00:41:52 2016-12-19 02:47
#56 — Abusing Dolores 01:08:20 2016-12-12 18:09
#55 — Islamism vs Secularism 01:13:58 2016-12-06 06:31
#54 — Trumping The World 00:35:42 2016-12-01 21:14
#53 — The Dawn of Artificial Intelligence 00:36:24 2016-11-24 01:40
#52 — Finding Our Way in the Cosmos 00:44:20 2016-11-16 22:10
#51 — The Most Powerful Clown 00:11:45 2016-11-10 22:23
#50 — The Borders of Tolerance 00:24:15 2016-11-02 19:41
#49 — The Lesser Evil 01:03:56 2016-10-26 21:05
#48 — What Is Moral Progress? 00:46:48 2016-10-21 22:50
#47 — The Frontiers of Political Correctness 00:47:55 2016-10-06 19:35
#46 — The End of Faith Sessions 3 00:26:28 2016-09-28 08:27
#45 — Ask Me Anything 5 01:20:28 2016-09-13 22:42
#44 — Being Good and Doing Good 00:55:06 2016-08-29 20:30
#43 — What Do Jihadists Really Want? 00:20:21 2016-08-17 17:02
#42 — Racism and Violence in America 00:56:20 2016-08-09 04:48
#41 — Faith in Reason 01:03:13 2016-08-01 20:40
#40 — Complexity & Stupidity 00:46:52 2016-07-12 08:36
#39 — Free Will Revisited 00:44:25 2016-07-04 04:47
#38 — The End of Faith Sessions 2 00:39:19 2016-06-15 21:12
#37 — Thinking in Public 00:45:58 2016-05-31 17:21
#36 — What Makes Us Safer? 00:37:01 2016-05-02 19:11
#35 — The End Of Faith Sessions 1 00:50:42 2016-04-25 20:38
#34 — The Light of the Mind 00:47:02 2016-04-18 18:35
#33 — Ask Me Anything 4 00:58:11 2016-03-26 08:19
#32 — The Best Podcast Ever 01:35:46 2016-03-12 20:24
#31 — Evolving Minds 00:41:42 2016-03-09 06:04
#30 — Inside the Crucible 00:41:43 2016-03-06 18:06
#29 — Throw Open the Gates 00:50:43 2016-02-24 21:53
#28 — Meat Without Misery 00:19:58 2016-02-20 16:33
#27 — Ask Me Anything 3 01:10:15 2016-02-13 01:35
#26 — The Logic of Violence 00:41:41 2016-01-19 21:30
#25 — Behind the Gun 00:44:06 2016-01-14 18:17
#24 — Ask Me Anything 2 01:32:58 2016-01-04 04:51
#23 — Islam and the Future of Tolerance (Audiobook Excerpts) 00:37:46 2015-12-21 23:31
#22 — Surviving the Cosmos 00:49:01 2015-12-16 16:41
#21 — On the Maintenance of Civilization 00:57:24 2015-11-22 23:00
#20 — Still Sleepwalking Toward Armageddon 00:09:37 2015-11-16 00:54
#19 — The Riddle Of The Gun (Revisited) 00:38:54 2015-10-08 20:40
#18 — The Multiverse & You (& You & You & You...) 00:43:52 2015-09-23 21:41
#17 — What I Really Think About Profiling 00:12:27 2015-09-17 01:47
#16 — The Dark Side 00:41:52 2015-08-26 06:02
#15 — Questions Along the Path 00:45:48 2015-08-11 22:28
#14 — The Virtues of Cold Blood 00:42:19 2015-07-30 00:28
#13 — The Moral Gaze 00:32:33 2015-07-21 08:09
#12 — Leaving the Church 00:30:36 2015-07-03 23:18
#11 — Shouldering the Burden of History 00:58:16 2015-06-27 10:11
#10 — Faith vs. Fact 00:24:34 2015-05-19 23:35
#9 — Final Thoughts On Chomsky 00:10:42 2015-05-15 05:34
#8 — Ask Me Anything 1 01:09:38 2015-04-25 00:35
#7 — Through the Eyes of a Cult 00:11:39 2015-03-25 04:47
#6 — The Chapel Hill Murders and 'Militant' Atheism 00:12:03 2015-02-18 01:53
#5 — After Charlie Hebdo and Other Thoughts 00:16:06 2015-01-22 05:42
#4 — The Path and the Goal 00:50:48 2014-10-28 18:23
#3 — WAKING UP — Chapter One 00:40:42 2014-08-21 19:06
#2 — Why Don't I Criticize Israel? 00:16:23 2014-07-27 18:31
#1 — Drugs And The Meaning Of Life 00:19:59 2014-06-05 08:18
How to talk to a Christian 00:07:50 2013-11-12 05:38
Looking for the Self (26 Minutes) 2013-09-26 21:46
Mindfulness Meditation (9 Minutes) 2013-09-26 21:46