Making Sense with Sam Harris

Episode Title Published Date Books Mentioned
386 - Information Social Order 2024-10-07 5
385 - AI Utopia 2024-09-30 4
384 - Stress Testing Our Democracy 2024-09-23 3
383 - Where Are the Grown-Ups 2024-09-17 0
382 - The Eye of Nature 2024-09-06 1
380 - The Roots of Attention 2024-08-23 3
379 - Regulating Artificial Intelligence 2024-08-12 1
378 - Digital Delusions 2024-08-02 2
337 - The Future of Psychedelic Medicine 2024-07-26 2
376 - How Democracies Fail 2024-07-19 10
374 - Consciousness and the Physical World 2024-07-09 5
373 - Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism 2024-07-02 2
372 - Life Work 2024-06-24 16
371 - What the Hell Is Happening 2024-06-14 2
370 - Gender Apartheid and the Future of Iran 2024-06-06 2
369 - Escaping Death 2024-05-30 8
368 - Freedom Censorship 2024-05-21 6
367 - Campus Protests Antisemitism and Western Values 2024-05-13 1
366 - Urban Warfare 20 2024-05-07 1
365 - Reality Check 2024-05-01 6
364 - Facts Values 2024-04-23 1
363 - Knowledge Work 2024-04-15 3
361 - Sam Bankman-Fried Effective Altruism 2024-04-01 6
360 - We Really Dont Have Free Will 2024-03-27 6
359 - Getting Used to It 2024-03-19 5
358 - The War in Ukraine 2024-03-11 4
356 - Islam Freedom 2024-02-28 6
355 - A Falling World 2024-02-21 4
354 - Is Moral Progress a Fantasy 2024-02-16 18
353 - Race Reason 2024-02-11 4
352 - Hubris Chaos 2024-02-04 4
344 - The War in Gaza 2024-01-29 5
350 - Sharing Reality 2024-01-23 5
228 - Doing Good 2024-01-16 2
348 - The Politics of Antisemitism 2024-01-05 1
346 - The Best Kept Secret In History 2023-12-22 7
345 - Resilience 2023-12-18 3
343 - What Is Islamophobia 2023-12-06 0
342 - Animal Minds Moral Truths 2023-11-27 13
341 - Gaza Global Order 2023-11-16 2
340 - The Bright Line Between Good and Evil 2023-11-07 5
339 - The Infernal Logic of Jihad 2023-11-03 2
336 - The Roots of Identity Politics 2023-09-28 5
335 - A Postmortem on My Response to Covid 2023-09-22 1
334 - The Low-Trust Society 2023-09-18 7
333 - Sanity Check on Climate Change 2023-09-05 1
332 - Can We Contain Artificial Intelligence 2023-08-28 2
330 - The Doomsday Machine 2023-08-16 4
329 - What Happened to the Republican Party 2023-08-12 1
328 - Health Longevity 2023-08-02 2
327 - Transformative Experiences 2023-07-21 1
326 - AI Information Integrity 2023-07-06 1
325 - A Few Thoughts About RFK Jr 2023-07-03 0
324 - Debating the Future of AI 2023-06-28 6
323 - Science Survival 2023-06-22 2
Making Sense of Meditation 2023-06-18 19
322 - Predicting Reality 2023-06-12 5
321 - Reckoning with Parfit 2023-06-05 5
Making Sense of Death 2023-05-26 16
320 - Constructing Self and World 2023-05-22 2
319 - The Digital Multiverse 2023-05-15 3
Making Sense of Social Media 2023-05-05 22
318 - Physics Philosophy 2023-05-01 2
317 - What Do We Know About Our Minds 2023-04-20 9
316 - Self-Defense Reality and Fantasy 2023-04-14 3
Making Sense of Existential Threat Nuclear War 2023-04-12 10
315 - The Great Derangement 2023-04-07 2
314 - The Cancellation of JK Rowling 2023-03-31 3
313 - Apocalypse 2023-03-25 14
Making Sense of Belief and Unbelief 2023-03-17 18
312 - The Trouble with AI 2023-03-07 5
311 - Did SARS-CoV-2 Escape from a Lab 2023-02-20 3
Making Sense of Free Will 2023-02-14 17
310 - Social Media Public Trust 2023-01-31 4
Making Sense of Encounters With Violence 2023-01-26 14
309 - Vulnerability Politics and Moral Worth 2023-01-19 12
308 - The Long Game 2023-01-11 6
Making Sense of Foundations of Morality 2023-01-05 15
307 - Twitter Elon Free Speech 2022-12-30 2
Making Sense of Consciousness 2022-12-15 15
305 - Moral Knowledge 2022-12-07 6
304 - Why I Left Twitter 2022-11-28 11
Making Sense of Artificial Intelligence 2022-11-22 10
303 - The Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried 2022-11-15 1
302 - Science Civilization 2022-11-10 5
301 - The Politics of Unreality Ukraine and Nuclear Risk 2022-10-25 5
299 - Steps in the Right Direction 2022-10-03 11
175 - Leaving the Faith 2022-09-29 5
297 - Preparing for the End 2022-09-23 6
296 - Repairing Our Country 2022-09-13 6
295 - Philosophy and the Good Life 2022-09-09 7
294 - Status Games 2022-08-31 8
293 - What I Really Think About Trump and Media Bias 2022-08-25 1
292 - How Much Does the Future Matter 2022-08-14 6
291 - Where is Happiness 2022-07-28 5
290 - What Went Wrong 2022-07-21 9
289 - Time Management for Mortals 2022-07-18 3
288 - The End of Global Order 2022-07-14 5
287 - Why Wealth Matters 2022-07-05 5
285 - American Division 2022-06-24 6
284 - The Funny Business 2022-06-07 1
283 - Gun Violence in America 2022-05-30 1
282 - Do You Really Have a Self 2022-05-23 5
281 - Western Culture and Its Discontents 2022-05-02 10
255 - The Future of Intelligence 2022-04-22 6
278 - The Man Who Will Be King 2022-04-13 2
277 - How Does the War in Ukraine End 2022-04-03 2
276 - Defending the Global Order 2022-03-22 3
Special Episode Recipes for Future Plagues 2022-02-28 1
262 - The Future of American Democracy 2022-02-11 3
273 - Joe Rogan and the Ethics of Apology 2022-02-07 1
Vaccine Mandates transgender athletes billionaires AMA 19 2022-01-31 1
271 - Earning to Give 2021-12-24 1
270 - What Have We Learned from the Pandemic 2021-12-14 6
269 - Deep Time 2021-12-03 5
268 - The Limits of Self-Knowledge 2021-11-24 1
267 - The Kingdom of Sleep 2021-11-10 6
266 - The Limits of Pleasure 2021-11-02 11
265 - The Religion of Anti-Racism 2021-10-27 4
264 - Consciousness and Self Rebroadcast 2021-10-21 4
263 - The Paradox of Death 2021-10-18 2
Ask Me Anything 18 2021-09-20 2
260 - The Second Plane 2021-09-09 1
259 - The Reckoning to Come 2021-08-31 10
Ask Me Anything 17 2021-08-30 1
258 - The Fall of Afghanistan 2021-08-22 5
257 - The State of the World 2021-08-13 2
256 - A Contagion of Bad Ideas 2021-07-23 3
254 - The Mating Strategies of Earthlings 2021-06-25 7
253 - Corporate Courage 2021-06-17 1
252 - Are We Alone in the Universe 2021-06-10 6
251 - Corporate Cowardice 2021-05-26 4
250 - Broken Conversations 2021-05-21 6
249 - Distance Arrival 2021-05-14 1
248 - Order Freedom 2021-04-30 11
Special Episode Engineering the Apocalypse 2021-04-23 2
247 - Constructing Minds 2021-04-21 7
245 - Can We Talk About Scary Ideas 2021-04-12 4
244 - Food Climate and Pandemic Risk 2021-04-06 1
243 - A Few Points of Confusion 2021-03-28 1
242 - Psychedelics and the Self 2021-03-23 5
241 - Final Thoughts on Free Will 2021-03-12 1
240 - The Boundaries of Self 2021-03-07 3
163 - Ricky Gervais 2021-02-24 1
238 - How to Build a Universe 2021-02-22 3
234 - The Divided Mind 2021-02-05 8
233 - In the Groves of Misinformation 2021-02-01 1
232 - Inequality Revolution 2021-01-26 2
231 - Crossing the Abyss 2021-01-17 2
230 - An Insurrection of Lies 2021-01-11 2
229 - A Few Thoughts for a New Year 2021-01-05 1
227 - Knowing the Mind 2020-12-07 3
226 - The Price of Distraction 2020-11-27 1
222 - A Pandemic of Incompetence 2020-10-27 4
221 - Success Failure the Common Good 2020-10-22 4
220 - The Information Apocalypse 2020-10-17 4
219 - The Power of Compassion 2020-10-08 4
218 - Welcome to the Cult Factory 2020-09-24 1
217 - The New Religion of Anti-Racism 2020-09-17 3
216 - A Conversation with Graeme Wood 2020-09-03 3
215 - A Conversation with David Miliband 2020-08-21 2
214 - A Conversation with Siddhartha Mukherjee 2020-08-13 2
212 - A Conversation with Kathryn Paige Harden 2020-07-29 6
Bonus Questions Robert Plomin 2020-07-23 1
211 - The Nature of Human Nature 2020-07-17 7
210 - The Logic of Doomsday 2020-07-09 8
209 - A Good Life 2020-07-03 14
208 - Existential Risk 2020-06-23 9
206 - A Conversation with David Frum 2020-05-26 4
205 - The Failure of Meritocracy 2020-05-22 3
204 - A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt 2020-05-18 11
197 - A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan 2020-05-13 3
202 - A Conversation with Andrew Yang 2020-05-11 1
Bonus Questions Yuval Noah Harari 2020-05-01 1
200 - Creatures of Habit 2020-04-29 2
183 - A Conversation with Paul Bloom 2020-04-16 6
196 - The Science of Happiness 2020-04-10 5
195 - Social Cohesion is Everything 2020-04-06 1
194 - The New Future of Work 2020-03-24 2
191 - Early Thoughts on a Pandemic 2020-03-11 1
190 - How Should We Respond to Coronavirus 2020-03-10 1
189 - Wealth Happiness 2020-03-02 2
186 - The Bomb 2020-02-17 7
184 - The Conversational Nature of Reality 2020-02-03 4
182 - Unlearning Race 2020-01-23 5
181 - The Illusory Self 2020-01-13 11
180 - Sex Power 2019-12-29 4
179 - The Unquiet Mind 2019-12-17 2
Bonus Questions Donald Hoffman 2019-12-11 1
178 - The Reality Illusion 2019-12-11 8
177 - Psychedelic Science 2019-12-02 4
174 - Life Mind 2019-11-04 10
173 - Anti-Semitism and Its Discontents 2019-10-28 9
172 - Among the Deplorables 2019-10-21 5
White Privilege 2019-10-15 2
171 - Escaping a Christian Cult 2019-10-08 5
170 - The Great Uncoupling 2019-10-02 14
169 - Omens of a Race War 2019-09-20 6
168 - Mind Space Motion 2019-09-10 5
167 - A Few Thoughts on White Supremacy 2019-08-26 1
166 - The Plague Years 2019-08-21 5
165 - Journey into Wokeness 2019-08-13 2
164 - Cause Effect 2019-08-05 4
162 - Medical Intelligence 2019-07-03 7
161 - Rise Fall 2019-06-24 10
160 - The Revenge of History 2019-06-17 3
159 - Conscious 2019-06-05 4
158 - Understanding Humans in the Wild 2019-05-30 11
Bonus Questions Nicholas Christakis 2019-05-14 2
156 - The Evolution of Culture 2019-05-13 8
155 - Mental Models 2019-04-29 3
43 - What Do Jihadists Really Want 2019-04-24 1
153 - Possible Minds 2019-04-15 21
152 - The Trouble with Facebook 2019-03-27 5
151 - Will We Destroy the Future 2019-03-18 3
150 - The Map of Misunderstanding 2019-03-12 6
149 - The Problem of Addiction 2019-03-04 8
Ask Me Anything 16 2019-02-19 1
Bonus Questions Jack Dorsey 2019-02-06 1
147 - Stephen Fry 2019-01-29 9
146 - Digital Capitalism 2019-01-16 9
145 - The Information War 2019-01-02 0
144 - Conquering Hate 2018-12-07 1
Ask Me Anything 15 2018-11-30 2
143 - The Keys to the Mind 2018-11-21 4
Bonus Questions Johann Hari 2018-11-13 4
142 - Addiction Depression and a Meaningful Life 2018-11-12 8
141 - Is MeToo Going Too Far 2018-11-05 10
Bonus Questions Matt Taibbi 2018-10-18 1
140 - Burning Down the Fourth Estate 2018-10-17 3
139 - Sacred Profane 2018-10-03 2
138 - The Edge of Humanity 2018-09-19 6
Bonus Questions Jonathan Haidt 2018-09-10 2
137 - Safe Space 2018-09-09 8
Bonus Questions Jaron Lanier 2018-08-31 1
136 - Digital Humanism 2018-08-30 6
135 - Navigating Sex and Gender 2018-08-20 4
Ask Me Anything 14 2018-08-13 2
134 - Beyond the Politics of Race 2018-07-29 6
Ask Me Anything 13 2018-07-25 6
133 - Globalism on the Brink 2018-07-18 4
132 - Freeing the Hostages 2018-07-09 1
131 - Dictators Immigration MeToo and Other Imponderables 2018-07-02 3
130 - Universal Basic Income 2018-06-18 2
129 - An Insiders View of Medicine 2018-06-12 3
Bonus Questions Geoffrey Miller 2018-06-05 1
128 - Transformations of Mind 2018-06-04 12
127 - Freedom from the Known 2018-05-28 5
Ask Me Anything 12 2018-05-25 7
126 - In Defense of Honor 2018-05-08 4
125 - What is Christianity 2018-05-01 12
124 - In Search of Reality 2018-04-21 6
123 - Identity Honesty 2018-04-09 10
122 - Extreme Housekeeping Edition 2018-04-03 3
121 - White Power 2018-03-25 4
120 - What Is and What Matters 2018-03-19 3
119 - Hidden Motives 2018-03-12 13
Ask Me Anything 11 2018-03-07 5
118 - The View from Trumpistan 2018-02-27 1
Bonus Questions Niall Ferguson 2018-02-19 1
117 - Networks Power and Chaos 2018-02-18 9
Ask Me Anything 10 2018-02-16 3
116 - AI Racing Toward the Brink 2018-02-06 9
115 - Sam Harris Lawrence Krauss and Matt Dillahunty 1 2018-01-29 2
114 - Politics and Sanity 2018-01-22 11
113 - Consciousness and the Self 2018-01-09 4
112 - The Intellectual Dark Web 2018-01-05 3
111 - The Science of Meditation 2017-12-28 5
110 - The Change Artist 2017-12-23 11
109 - Biology and Culture 2017-12-19 1
108 - Defending the Experts 2017-12-14 6
107 - Is Life Actually Worth Living 2017-12-05 7
Ask Me Anything 9 2017-12-04 3
Ask Me Anything 8 2017-12-04 6
106 - Humanity 20 2017-11-29 1
104 - The Lessons of Death 2017-11-15 3
103 - American Fantasies 2017-11-09 5
102 - Is Buddhism True 2017-10-30 6
101 - Defending the Republic 2017-10-17 4
100 - Facing the Crowd 2017-10-09 2
99 - What Happened to Liberalism 2017-09-27 4
98 - Into the Dark Land 2017-09-20 5
96 - The Nature of Consciousness 2017-09-10 10
95 - What You Need to Know About Climate Change 2017-09-05 3
94 - Frontiers of Intelligence 2017-08-29 5
93 - Identity Terror 2017-08-21 7
92 - The Limits of Persuasion 2017-08-16 5
91 - The Biology of Good and Evil 2017-08-09 6
90 - Living With Violence 2017-08-06 5
89 - On Becoming a Better Person 2017-07-25 6
88 - Must We Accept a Nuclear North Korea 2017-07-21 4
87 - Triggered 2017-07-18 5
86 - From Cells to Cities 2017-07-14 2
85 - Is this the End of Europe 2017-07-07 5
84 - Landscapes of Mind 2017-06-30 4
83 - The Politics of Emergency 2017-06-23 6
82 - The End of the World According to ISIS 2017-06-15 4
81 - Leaving Islam 2017-06-09 1
80 - The Unraveling 2017-06-03 0
79 - The Road to Tyranny 2017-05-29 8
78 - Persuasion and Control 2017-05-26 2
77 - The Moral Complexity of Genetics 2017-05-22 10
76 - The Path to Impeachment 2017-05-18 2
Ask Me Anything 7 2017-05-12 8
74 - What Should We Eat 2017-05-06 7
73 - Forbidden Knowledge 2017-04-22 11
72 - Privacy and Security 2017-04-17 2
71 - What is Technology Doing to Us 2017-04-14 2
70 - Beauty and Terror 2017-04-10 3
69 - The Russia Connection 2017-03-23 2
68 - Reality and the Imagination 2017-03-19 3
67 - Meaning and Chaos 2017-03-13 10
65 - Were All Cucks Now 2017-02-20 4
Ask Me Anything 6 2017-02-15 1
63 - Why Meditate 2017-01-31 1
62 - What is True 2017-01-21 2
61 - The Power of Belief 2017-01-15 11
60 - An Evening with Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris 2 2017-01-10 6
59 - Friend Foe 2017-01-05 5
58 - The Putin Question 2016-12-27 6
57 - An Evening with Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris 1 2016-12-18 9
56 - Abusing Dolores 2016-12-12 10
55 - Islamism vs Secularism 2016-12-05 5
54 - Trumping the World 2016-12-01 3
53 - The Dawn of Artificial Intelligence 2016-11-23 4
52 - Finding Our Way in the Cosmos 2016-11-16 3
51 - The Most Powerful Clown 2016-11-10 1
50 - The Borders of Tolerance 2016-11-02 6
49 - The Lesser Evil 2016-10-26 3
48 - What Is Moral Progress 2016-10-21 11
47 - The Frontiers of Political Correctness 2016-10-06 8
46 - The End of Faith Sessions 3 2016-09-27 8
Ask Me Anything 5 2016-09-13 4
44 - Being Good and Doing Good 2016-08-29 4
42 - Racism and Violence in America 2016-08-08 5
41 - Faith in Reason 2016-08-01 5
40 - Complexity Stupidity 2016-07-11 2
39 - Free Will Revisited 2016-07-03 3
38 - The End of Faith Sessions 2 2016-06-15 5
37 - Thinking in Public 2016-05-31 3
36 - What Makes Us Safer 2016-05-02 5
35 - The End of Faith Sessions 1 2016-04-25 16
34 - The Light of the Mind 2016-04-18 8
Ask Me Anything 4 2016-03-26 4