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Making Sense with Sam Harris

Making Sense with Sam Harris

By: Sam Harris
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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's decades of mindfulness practice, profound wisdom from varied philosophical and contemplative traditions, and a commitment to a secular, scientific worldview, Waking Up is a resource for anyone interested in living a more examined, fulfilling life—and a new operating system for the mind. Waking Up offers free subscriptions to anyone who can't afford one, and donates a minimum of 10% of profits to the most effective charities around the world. To learn more, please go to WakingUp.com. Sam Harris received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.All rights reserved Science Social Sciences
Episodes
  • #489 — More From Sam: A Fabulist at Cambridge, the Strait of Hormuz, AOC in 2028, and More

    #489 — More From Sam: A Fabulist at Cambridge, the Strait of Hormuz, AOC in 2028, and More
    Aug 21 2026

    In this latest episode of the More From Sam series, Sam and Jaron talk about current events. They discuss the death of Cambridge professor Jason Arday and the institutions that promoted him, America's deteriorating position in the war with Iran, the witch hunt against Anthony Fauci, AOC's prospects in 2028, two former NBA players trolling the WNBA's eligibility rules, the strange appeal of Nick Fuentes, why pacifism fails against real evil, a Making Sense community question on parenthood and mortality, and other topics.

    Further reading: How to Stop a Lab Leak From Starting the Next Pandemic

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

    #150 — The Map of Misunderstanding (From the Archive)
    Aug 11 2026

    From the archive: In this 2019 episode, Sam Harris speaks with Daniel Kahneman at the Beacon Theatre in NYC. They discuss the replication crisis in science, System 1 and System 2, where intuitions reliably fail, expert intuitions, the power of framing, moral illusions, anticipated regret, the asymmetry between threats and opportunities, the utility of worrying, removing obstacles to wanted behaviors, the remembering self vs the experiencing self, improving the quality of gossip, and other topics.

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    48 mins
  • #488 — Ego, Ecstasy, and Equanimity

    #488 — Ego, Ecstasy, and Equanimity
    Aug 4 2026

    Sam Harris speaks with Neal Brennan about the experiences that shaped his life and work. They discuss Sam's mother's television career, growing up with an absent father, his struggles with perfectionism, his first experience with MDMA, dropping out of Stanford, meditation retreats, spiritual charisma and claims of psychic powers, the illusion of self, the limits of pacifism, deleting Twitter, Trump and the politics of shamelessness, hypocrisy and vice signaling, the future of American democracy, and other topics.

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    13 mins
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It defeats the propose of my Audible subscription where the Podcasts are meant to be free. Perhaps this should be removed from this platform OR Audible should reformulate and state that only half of these episodes are included for members.

The talks itself are (...)
- half of the sentence is omitted because you didn't pay me -

Why is this not free for Audible members?

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Apparently Audible only gives you fifteen words to review - so here goes, Sam is the

only 15 words auditable?

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No point starting this unless you want to subscribe to another service.
Have to make 15 words to leave a review.

Pointless being on audible.

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