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.

#481 — Sam Harris Receives the 2026 Richard Dawkins Award

Richard Dawkins presents Sam Harris with the 2026 Richard Dawkins Award at a live Center for Inquiry...

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#480 — The Economics of Everything

Sam Harris speaks with economist and Substack writer Noah Smith about the U.S. national debt, wealth...

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#479 — When Robots Take Over

Sam Harris speaks with Vinod Khosla about AI, economic disruption, and political risk. They discuss...

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#478 — The Psychedelic Mind

Sam Harris speaks with Robin Carhart-Harris about psychedelic research and its therapeutic potential....

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

Warning: This episode contains graphic descriptions of violence against civilians during the October...

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#476 — The Bittersweet Age

Sam Harris speaks with Susan Cain about writing, creativity, and what AI means for human culture. They...

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#475 — The Hard Problem of Consciousness

Sam Harris speaks with Michael Pollan about consciousness, the mind, and the self. They discuss Pollan's...

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

In this latest episode of the More From Sam series, Sam and Jaron talk about current events. They discuss...

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#473 — Money, Power, and Moral Failure

Sam Harris speaks with Lloyd Blankfein about finance, politics, and the state of American society. They...

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#472 — Strange Days on the Right

Sam Harris speaks with Ben Shapiro about their pre-election debate and the fractures on the right. They...

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#471 — The End of History, Revisited

Sam Harris speaks with Francis Fukuyama about liberal democracy, American politics, and global order....

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#470 — Democrats at a Crossroads

Sam Harris speaks with Rahm Emanuel about American politics, the state of the Democratic Party, and...

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#469 — Escaping an Anti-Human Future

Sam Harris speaks with Tristan Harris about the dangers of AI and the race to build it. They discuss...

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#468 — More From Sam: Gratitude, Bad Conversations, Conspiracy Addiction, Waffle House Teleportation, and More

In this latest episode of the More From Sam series, Sam and Jaron talk about current events. They discuss...

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#467 — EA, AI, and the End of Work

Sam Harris speaks with William MacAskill about effective altruism, AI, and the future of humanity. They...

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#466 — What Is Technology Doing to Us?

Sam Harris speaks with Nicholas Christakis about technology, society, and human nature. They discuss...

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#465 — More From Sam: Iran, Jihadism, Conspiracism, AI Disruption, the Manosphere, and More

In this latest episode of the More From Sam series, Sam and Jaron talk about current events. They discuss...

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#464 — The Politics of Pragmatism and the Future of California

Sam Harris speaks with Matt Mahan, mayor of San Jose and Democratic candidate for governor of California,...

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#463 — Privatizing the Apocalypse

Sam Harris speaks with Rob Reid about biosecurity, pandemic risk, and the alarming fragility of our...

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#462 — More From Sam: The Iran War, American Amorality, Addressing Hopelessness, Tucker, and More

In this latest episode of the More From Sam series, Sam and Jaron talk about current events. They discuss...

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#461 — Dictators Always Tell You What They'll Do

Sam Harris speaks with Garry Kasparov about the erosion of American democracy and the global authoritarian...

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#460 — When the Center Cannot Hold

Sam Harris speaks with Jonah Goldberg about the state of American conservatism and the Trump presidency....

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#459 — More From Sam: Corruption, Immigration, The End of White-Collar Work, and More

In this latest episode of the More From Sam series, Sam and Jaron talk about current events. They discuss...

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#458 — The Bulwark Against MAGA

Sam Harris speaks with Sarah Longwell and Tim Miller about Trump and the future of American politics....

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