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Making Sense with Sam Harris
by Sam Harris
Today: #9 in Science on our combined chart.
Today: #12 in Science, United Kingdom on our combined chart.
Today: #9 in Science, Canada on our combined chart.
Today: #10 in Science, Australia on our combined chart.
Today: #93 in Science, Germany on our combined chart.
Today: #81 in Science, Brazil on our combined chart.
Today: #46 in Science, Mexico on our combined chart.
Today: #10 in Science, New Zealand on our combined chart.
Today: #18 in Science, Ireland on our combined chart.
Today: #25 in Science, India on our combined chart.
Today: #108 in Science, Japan on our combined chart.
Today: #38 in Science, Philippines on our combined chart.
Today: #10 in Science, South Africa on our combined chart.
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| Date | Combined Rank | Pocket Casts |
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| Oct 22 | — | #21 |
| Oct 21 | — | #21 |
| Oct 20 | — | #21 |
| Oct 19 | — | #21 |
| Oct 18 | — | #21 |
| Oct 17 | — | #21 |
| Oct 16 | — | #21 |
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#499 — The Birth of AGI
October 20, 2026 · 21 minSam Harris speaks with Kevin Roose about the race to build artificial general intelligence. They discuss Roose's book The AGI Chronicles, the scaling laws behind AI's rapid progress, Dario Amodei's "big blob of compute" memo, the birth of…
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#498 — More From Sam: Bond Villains, Useful Idiots, Firing Squads, and More
October 14, 2026 · 23 minIn 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…
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#497 — The Confidence Man
October 9, 2026 · 22 minSam 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…
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#496 — The Oldest Lie
October 7, 2026 · 1 hr 40 minSam 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…
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#495 — Foreign Policy for Sale
October 1, 2026 · 18 minSam Harris speaks with Anne Applebaum about corruption, authoritarianism, and America's retreat from the world. They discuss her Atlantic cover story, the revolutionary project behind Trump's second term, US support for Europe's far right…
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#494 — A Coin Toss for the Future
September 24, 2026 · 1 hr 33 minSam Harris speaks with Ryan Greenblatt about AI misalignment and the risk of losing control of increasingly capable systems. They discuss the Hugging Face incident, the spectrum of concern about AI risk, why companies are racing ahead…
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#493 — Two Reasons to Meditate
September 17, 2026 · 13 minMeditation can help us live better. It can also help us understand what is true about our own minds. These motivations might seem fundamentally different, but Sam explains why they're two aspects of the same project. If the Making Sense…
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#492 — The Second Plane, 25 Years Later
September 9, 2026 · 38 minOn the 25th anniversary of September 11th, Sam discusses the significance of the second plane, the writing of The End of Faith, the failure to take jihadist belief seriously, the costs of the war on terror, the abandonment of America's…
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#491 — The Suicide of the Left
September 1, 2026 · 26 minSam Harris speaks with James Kirchick about the far left's growing influence over Democratic politics. They discuss Kirchick's article "The DSA Is a Parasite," the group's platform and foreign policy, entryism, the alliance between…
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#490 — Lies, Bulls**t, and the Rule of Law
August 25, 2026 · 24 minSam Harris speaks with Preet Bharara about the collapse of good faith debate in American politics. They discuss the fragmentation of media, the treatment of Anthony Fauci, the rush to prosecute political opponents, Trump's self-dealing…
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#489 — More From Sam: A Fabulist at Cambridge, the Strait of Hormuz, AOC in 2028, and More
August 21, 2026 · 24 minIn 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…
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#150 — The Map of Misunderstanding (From the Archive)
August 11, 2026 · 48 minFrom 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…
About the show
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.