Making Sense with 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 overarching focus on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live. Sam is also the creator of the Waking Up app. Combining Sam

#490 — Lies, Bulls**t, and the Rule of Law

Aug 2026 · 1 book

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Being There

Jerzy Kosiński

i think a lot of his success and the you know his ascendancy and his invulnerability to scandal has less to do with him being some kind of political genius and more to do with the situation in which he has found himself right so i i view him as a the the the the analogy that that has worked for me is that he's kind of an evil version of the chauncey gardner character from the the jersey klasinski book and the being there and the and they the film by that name ▶ tap to play from here

#489 — More From Sam: A Fabulist at Cambridge, the Strait of Hormuz, AOC in 2028, and More

Aug 2026

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#150 — The Map of Misunderstanding (From the Archive)

Aug 2026

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#488 — Ego, Ecstasy, and Equanimity

Aug 2026

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#487 — Is AI Already Conscious?

Jul 2026

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#486 — Luck All the Way Down

Jul 2026

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#485 — The New Science of Cancer

Jul 2026

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#484 — Artificial Intimacy

Jul 2026

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#483 — The Knots We Tie Ourselves Into

Jul 2026

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#482 — More From Sam: The Iran Deal, College in the AI Age, Mamdani's DSA, and More

Jun 2026

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#481 — Sam Harris Receives the 2026 Richard Dawkins Award

Jun 2026

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#480 — The Economics of Everything

Jun 2026

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#479 — When Robots Take Over

Jun 2026

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#478 — The Psychedelic Mind

May 2026

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#477 — More From Sam: Iran's Unraveling, The Gaza Information War, AI-Generated Music, and More

May 2026

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#476 — The Bittersweet Age

May 2026

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#475 — The Hard Problem of Consciousness

May 2026

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#474 — More From Sam: Hasan Piker, Islamism, Making Sense Community, and More

May 2026

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#473 — Money, Power, and Moral Failure

Apr 2026

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#472 — Strange Days on the Right

Apr 2026

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