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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
  • #498 — More From Sam: Bond Villains, Useful Idiots, Firing Squads, and More
    Oct 14 2026

    In this latest episode of the More From Sam series, Sam and Jaron talk about current events. They discuss Alex Gibney's documentary on Elon Musk, Dara Horn's insights into antisemitism, the Democrats' Hasan Piker problem, Abdul El-Sayed and Zohran Mamdani, the Pentagon's plan to livestream a military execution, Trump's $5,000 voter promise, tech leaders' capitulation to Trump, and other topics.

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    23 mins
  • #497 — The Confidence Man
    Oct 9 2026

    Sam Harris speaks with Alex Gibney about his new documentary, Musk. They discuss Sam's former friendship with Musk, the line between visionary and con man, the myth of Tesla's founding, the staged self-driving video, Musk's lurch to the right, DOGE and the dismantling of USAID, his feud and reconciliation with Trump, Starlink and the war in Ukraine, the case for future investigations, and other topics.

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    22 mins
  • #496 — The Oldest Lie
    Oct 7 2026

    Sam Harris speaks with Dara Horn about antisemitism, Jewish identity, and the failure of institutions. They discuss Horn's new book, why Jews predate the categories of religion and nationality, antisemitism as a lie rather than an ordinary form of bigotry, why DEI failed Jewish students, the history of anti-Zionism, whether the word "Zionism" is still useful, Horn's time on Harvard's antisemitism advisory group, Nazi influence in the Arab world, and other topics.

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    1 hr and 40 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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