All Episodes

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

#488 — Ego, Ecstasy, and Equanimity

#487 — Is AI Already Conscious?

#486 — Luck All the Way Down

#485 — The New Science of Cancer

#484 — Artificial Intimacy

#483 — The Knots We Tie Ourselves Into

#482 — More From Sam: The Iran Deal, College in the AI Age, Mamdani's DSA, and More

#481 — Sam Harris Receives the 2026 Richard Dawkins Award

#480 — The Economics of Everything

#479 — When Robots Take Over

#478 — The Psychedelic Mind

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

#476 — The Bittersweet Age

#475 — The Hard Problem of Consciousness

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

#473 — Money, Power, and Moral Failure

#472 — Strange Days on the Right

#471 — The End of History, Revisited

#470 — Democrats at a Crossroads

#469 — Escaping an Anti-Human Future

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

#467 — EA, AI, and the End of Work

#466 — What Is Technology Doing to Us?

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

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

#463 — Privatizing the Apocalypse

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

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

#460 — When the Center Cannot Hold

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

#458 — The Bulwark Against MAGA

#457 — More From Sam: The Epstein Files, The Newsom Factor, Don Lemon's Arrest, AI Market Disruption, and More

#456 — American Fascism

#455 — More From Sam: Guns, Propaganda, AI, and Power Unbound

#454 — More From Sam: Minnesota, Greenland, Iran, S**thole Countries, and More

#453 — AI and the New Face of Antisemitism

#452 — Is Wokeness Finally Dead?

#451 — The One Resolution That Matters Most

#450 — More From Sam: Resolutions, Conspiracies, Demonology, and the Fate of the World

#449 — Dogma, Tribe, and Truth

#448 — The Philosophy of Good and Evil

#447 — The Unraveling of American Power

#446 — How to Do the Most Good

#445 — More From Sam: Marjorie Taylor Greene, Billionaires, Thanksgiving Political Debates, & Rapid Fire Questions

#444 — America's Zombie Democracy

#443 — What Is Christian Nationalism?

#442 — More From Sam: Public Speaking, Nuclear War, & Christian Nationalism

#441 — The Threat of Civil War

#440 — A World in Crisis

#439 — How to Lose a Democracy

#438 — "More From Sam": Israel-Hamas Deal, Qatari Air Force Base, Trump, Charlie Kirk, Ezra Klein, & Rapid Fire Questions

#437 — Two Years Since 10/7

#436 — A Crisis of Trust

#435 — The Last Invention

#434 — Can We Survive AI?

#433 — How Did We Get Here?

#432 — The Undoing of America

#431 — What Is Happening on College Campuses?

#430 — "More From Sam": Trump, Gavin Newsom, Class War, DOGE, & Rapid Fire Questions

#429 — The New World Order

#428 — Political Extremism

#427 — AI Friends & Enemies

#426 — How Bad Is It?

#425 — Are We Prepared for the Next Pandemic?

#424 — "More From Sam": Nazi Grok, ICE, Epstein, Social Media, Rapid Fire Questions

#423 — "More From Sam": Democracy, Populism, Wealth Inequality, News-Induced Anxiety, & Rapid Fire Questions

#422 — Zionism & Jihadism

#421 — "More From Sam": Political Violence, Iran, Deportations, Protests, & Rapid Fire Questions

#420 — Countdown to Superintelligence

#419 — "More From Sam": Elon vs. Trump, Religion, Jordan Peterson, & Rapid Fire Questions

#418 — A Future for Democrats

#417 — Philosophy for Life

#416 — "More From Sam": Biden's Big Lie, Review of Tapper Interview, Trump, & a Case Against Israel's Actions in Gaza

#415 — The Cover-Up

#414 — Strange Truths

#413 — "More From Sam": Trump & Israel, Corruption, Free Speech Violations, the Democrats, & Ezra Klein

#412 — Better Things & Better People

#411 — The Victimhood Pandemic

#410 — The Whole Catastrophe

#409 — "More From Sam": Religion, Deportations, Douglas Murray vs. Rogan, & Bill Maher's Dinner with Trump

#408 — Finding Equanimity in Chaos

#407 — Can We Ever Return to Normal Politics?

#406 — The Legacy of Christianity

#405 — "More From Sam": Tariffs, SignalGate, Trump, Elon, Douglas Murray, & Joe Rogan

#404 — What If Consciousness Is Fundamental?

#403 — Sanity Check on Trump 2.0

#402 — The Geopolitics of Trump 2.0

#401 — Christian Nationalism and the New Right

#400 — The Politics of Information

#399 — The Politics of Catastrophe

#398 — Thoughts Without a Thinker

#397 — A New Year's Message from Sam

#396 — The Way Forward

#395 — Intellectual Authority and Its Discontents

#394 — Bringing Back the Mammoth

#393 — Is History Repeating Itself?

#392 — Technology & Culture

#391 — The Reckoning

#390 — Final Thoughts on the 2024 Presidential Election

#389 — The Politics of Risk

#388 — What Is Life?

#387 — Politics & Power

#386 — Information & Social Order

#385 — AI Utopia

#384 — Stress Testing Our Democracy

#383 — Where Are the Grown-Ups?

#382 — The Eye of Nature

#381 — Delusions, Right and Left

#380 — The Roots of Attention

#379 — Regulating Artificial Intelligence

#378 — Digital Delusions

#377 — The Future of Psychedelic Medicine 2

#376 — How Democracies Fail

#375 — On the Attempted Assassination of President Trump

#374 — Consciousness and the Physical World

#373 — Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism

#372 — Life & Work

#371 — What the Hell Is Happening?

#370 — Gender Apartheid and the Future of Iran

#369 — Escaping Death

#368 — Freedom & Censorship

#367 — Campus Protests, Antisemitism, and Western Values

#366 — Urban Warfare 2.0

#365 — Reality Check

#364 — Facts & Values

#363 — Knowledge Work

#362 — Six Months of War

#361 — Sam Bankman-Fried & Effective Altruism

#360 — We Really Don't Have Free Will?

#359 — Getting Used to It

#358 — The War in Ukraine

#357 — America & World Order

#356 — Islam & Freedom

#355 — A Falling World

#354 — Is Moral Progress a Fantasy?

#353 — Race & Reason

#352 — Hubris & Chaos

#351 — 5 Myths about Israel and the War in Gaza

#350 — Sharing Reality

#349 — Generosity, Cynicism, and the Future of Doing Good

#348 — The Politics of Antisemitism

#347 — Finding Sanity in 2024

#346 — The Best Kept Secret In History?

#345 — Resilience

#344 — The War in Gaza

#343 — What Is "Islamophobia"?

#342 — Animal Minds & Moral Truths

#341 — Gaza & Global Order

#340 — The Bright Line Between Good and Evil

#339 — The Infernal Logic of Jihad

#338 — The Sin of Moral Equivalence

#337 — The Future of Psychedelic Medicine

#336 — The Roots of Identity Politics

#335 — A Postmortem on My Response to Covid

#334 — The Low-Trust Society

#333 — Sanity Check on Climate Change

#332 — Can We Contain Artificial Intelligence?

#331 — A Golden Age for Assholes

#330 — The Doomsday Machine

#329 — What Happened to the Republican Party?

#328 — Health & Longevity

#327 — Transformative Experiences

#326 — AI & Information Integrity

#325 — A Few Thoughts About RFK Jr.

#324 — Debating the Future of AI

#323 — Science & Survival

#322 — Predicting Reality

#321 — Reckoning with Parfit

#320 — Constructing Self and World

#319 — The Digital Multiverse

#318 — Physics & Philosophy

#317 — What Do We Know About Our Minds?

#316 — Self-Defense: Reality and Fantasy

#315 — The Great Derangement

#314 — The Cancellation of J.K. Rowling

#313 — Apocalypse

#312 — The Trouble with AI

#311 — Did SARS-CoV-2 Escape from a Lab?

#310 — Social Media & Public Trust

#309 — Vulnerability, Politics, and Moral Worth

#308 — The Long Game

#307 — Twitter, Elon, & Free Speech

#306 — Psychedelics & Mortality

#305 — Moral Knowledge

#304 — Why I Left Twitter

#303 — The Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried

#302 — Science & Civilization

#301 — The Politics of Unreality: Ukraine and Nuclear Risk

#300 — A Tale of Cancellation

#299 — Steps in the Right Direction

#298 — Leaving the Faith (Rebroadcast)

#297 — Preparing for the End

#296 — Repairing Our Country

#295 — Philosophy and the Good Life

#294 — Status Games

#293 — What I Really Think About Trump and Media Bias

#292 — How Much Does the Future Matter?

#291 — Where is Happiness?

#290 — What Went Wrong?

#289 — Time Management for Mortals

#288 — The End of Global Order

#287 — Why Wealth Matters

#286 — The Paradox of Psychedelics

#285 — American Division

#284 — The Funny Business

#283 — Gun Violence in America

#282 — Do You Really Have a Self?

#281 — Western Culture and Its Discontents

#280 — The Future of Artificial Intelligence

#279 — The Rules of the Stage

#278 — The Man Who Will Be King

#277 — How Does the War in Ukraine End?

#276 — Defending the Global Order

#275 — The Russian War in Ukraine

Absolutely Mental Season 3

Special Episode: Recipes for Future Plagues

#274 — The Future of American Democracy

#273 — Joe Rogan and the Ethics of Apology

Vaccine Mandates, transgender athletes, billionaires… (AMA #19)

#272 — On Disappointing My Audience

#271 — Earning to Give

#270 — What Have We Learned from the Pandemic?

#269 — Deep Time

#268 — The Limits of Self-Knowledge

#267 — The Kingdom of Sleep

#266 — The Limits of Pleasure

#265 — The Religion of Anti-Racism

#264 — Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

#263 — The Paradox of Death

#262 — The Future of American Democracy

#261 — Belief & Identity

Absolutely Mental Season Two

Ask Me Anything #18

#260 — The Second Plane

#259 — The Reckoning to Come

#258 — The Fall of Afghanistan

#257 — The State of the World

Ask Me Anything #17

#256 — A Contagion of Bad Ideas

#255 — The Future of Intelligence

#254 — The Mating Strategies of Earthlings

#253 — Corporate Courage

#252 — Are We Alone in the Universe?

#251 — Corporate Cowardice

#250 — Broken Conversations

#249 — Distance & Arrival

#248 — Order & Freedom

Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse

#247 — Constructing Minds

#246 — Police Training & Police Misconduct

#245 — Can We Talk About Scary Ideas?

#244 — Food, Climate, and Pandemic Risk

#243 — A Few Points of Confusion

#242 — Psychedelics and the Self

#241 — Final Thoughts on Free Will

#240 — The Boundaries of Self

#239 — Yet Another Call from Ricky Gervais

#238 — How to Build a Universe

#237 — Another Call from Ricky Gervais

#236 — Rebooting New York City

#235 — A Call from Ricky Gervais

#234 — The Divided Mind

#233 — The Groves of Misinformation

#232 — Inequality and Revolution

#231 — Crossing the Abyss

#230 — An Insurrection of Lies

#229 — A Few Thoughts for a New Year

#228 — Doing Good

#227 — Knowing the Mind

Making Sense with Sam Harris

#226 — The Price of Distraction

#225 — Republic of Lies

#224 — The Key to Trump's Appeal

#223 — A Conversation with Andrew Sullivan

#222 — A Pandemic of Incompetence

#221 — Success, Failure, & the Common Good

#220 - The Information Apocalypse

#219 — The Power of Compassion

#218 — Welcome to the Cult Factory

#217 — The New Religion of Anti-Racism

#216 — A Conversation with Graeme Wood

#215 — A Conversation with David Miliband

#214 — A Conversation with Siddhartha Mukherjee

#213 — The Worst Epidemic

#212 — A Conversation with Kathryn Paige Harden

#211 — The Nature of Human Nature

#210 — The Logic of Doomsday

#209 — A Good Life

#208 — Existential Risk

#207 — Can We Pull Back From The Brink?

#206 — A Conversation with David Frum

#205 — The Failure of Meritocracy

#204 — A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt

#203 — A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan

#202 — A Conversation with Andrew Yang

#201 — A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari

#200 — Creatures of Habit

#199 — A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan

#198 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

#197 — A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan

#196 — The Science of Happiness

#195 — Social Cohesion is Everything

#194 — The New Future of Work

#193 — Meditation in an Emergency

#192 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

#191 — Early Thoughts on a Pandemic

#190 — How Should We Respond to Coronavirus?

#189 — Wealth & Happiness

#188 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

#187 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

#186 — The Bomb

#185 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

#184 — The Conversational Nature of Reality

#183 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

#182 — Unlearning Race

#181 — The Illusory Self

#180 — Sex & Power

#179 — The Unquiet Mind

#178 — The Reality Illusion

#177 — Psychedelic Science

#176 — Knowledge & Redemption

#175 — Leaving the Faith

#174 — Life & Mind

#173 — Anti-Semitism and Its Discontents

#172 — Among the Deplorables

#171 — Escaping a Christian Cult

#170 — The Great Uncoupling

#169 — Omens of a Race War

#168 — Mind, Space, & Motion

#167 — A Few Thoughts on White Supremacy

#166 — The Plague Years

#165 — Journey into Wokeness

#164 — Cause & Effect

#163 — Ricky Gervais

#162 — Medical Intelligence

#161 — Rise & Fall

#160 — The Revenge of History

#159 — Conscious

#158 — Understanding Humans in the Wild

#157 — What Does the Mueller Report Really Say?

#156 — The Evolution of Culture

#155 — Mental Models

#154 — What Do Jihadists Really Want? (2019)

#153 — Possible Minds

#152 — The Trouble with Facebook

#151 — Will We Destroy the Future?

#150 — The Map of Misunderstanding

#149 — The Problem of Addiction

#148 — Jack Dorsey

#147 — Stephen Fry

#146 — Digital Capitalism

#145 — The Information War

The Drive Interview with Peter Attia

#144 — Conquering Hate

#143 — The Keys to the Mind

#142 — Addiction, Depression, and a Meaningful Life

#141— Is #MeToo Going Too Far?

The TED Interview

#140 — Burning Down the Fourth Estate

#139 — Sacred & Profane

Introducing Waking Up

#138 — The Edge of Humanity

#137 — Safe Space

#136 — Digital Humanism

#135 — Navigating Sex and Gender

#134 — Beyond the Politics of Race

#133 — Globalism on the Brink

#132 — Freeing the Hostages

#131 — Dictators, Immigration, #MeToo, and Other Imponderables

#130 — Universal Basic Income

#129 — An Insider's View of Medicine

#128 — Transformations of Mind

#127 — Freedom from the Known

#126 — In Defense of Honor

#125 — What Is Christianity?

#124 — In Search of Reality

#123 — Identity & Honesty

#122 — Extreme Housekeeping Edition

#121 — White Power

#120 — What Is and What Matters

#119 — Hidden Motives

# 118 — The View from Trumpistan

#117 — Networks, Power, and Chaos

The Russell Brand Interview

#116 — AI: Racing Toward the Brink

#115 — Sam Harris, Lawrence Krauss, and Matt Dillahunty (1)

#114 — Politics and Sanity

#113 — Consciousness and the Self

#112 — The Intellectual Dark Web

#111 — The Science of Meditation

#110 — The Change Artist

#109— Biology and Culture

#108 — Defending the Experts

#107 — Is Life Actually Worth Living?

#106 — Humanity 2.0

#105 — Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Matt Dillahunty

#104 — The Lessons of Death

#103 — American Fantasies

#102 — Is Buddhism True?

#101 — Defending the Republic

#100 — Facing the Crowd

The "After On" Interview

#99 — What Happened to Liberalism?

#98 — Into the Dark Land

#97 — The Impossible War

#96 — The Nature of Consciousness

#95 — What You Need to Know About Climate Change

#94 — Frontiers of Intelligence

#93 — Identity & Terror

#92 — The Limits of Persuasion

#91 — The Biology of Good and Evil

#90 — Living With Violence

#89 — On Becoming a Better Person

#88 — Must We Accept a Nuclear North Korea?

#87 — Triggered

#86 — From Cells to Cities

#85 — Is this the End of Europe?

#84 — Landscapes of Mind

#83 — The Politics of Emergency

#82 — The End of the World According to ISIS

#81 — Leaving Islam

#80 — The Unraveling

#79 — The Road to Tyranny

#78 — Persuasion and Control

#77 — The Moral Complexity of Genetics

#76 — The Path to Impeachment

#75 — Ask Me Anything 7

#74 — What Should We Eat?

#73 — Forbidden Knowledge

#72 — Privacy and Security

#71 — What Is Technology Doing to Us?

#70 — Beauty and Terror

#69 — The Russia Connection

#68 — Reality and the Imagination

#67 — Meaning and Chaos

#66 — Living with Robots

#65 — We're All Cucks Now

#64 — Ask Me Anything 6

#63 — Why Meditate?

#62 — What is True?

#61 — The Power of Belief

#60 — An Evening with Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris (2)

#59 — Friend & Foe

#58 — The Putin Question

#57 — An Evening with Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris (1)

#56 — Abusing Dolores

#55 — Islamism vs Secularism

#54 — Trumping The World

#53 — The Dawn of Artificial Intelligence

#52 — Finding Our Way in the Cosmos

#51 — The Most Powerful Clown

#50 — The Borders of Tolerance

#49 — The Lesser Evil

#48 — What Is Moral Progress?

#47 — The Frontiers of Political Correctness

#46 — The End of Faith Sessions 3

#45 — Ask Me Anything 5

#44 — Being Good and Doing Good

#43 — What Do Jihadists Really Want?

#42 — Racism and Violence in America

#41 — Faith in Reason

#40 — Complexity & Stupidity

#39 — Free Will Revisited

#38 — The End of Faith Sessions 2

#37 — Thinking in Public

#36 — What Makes Us Safer?

#35 — The End Of Faith Sessions 1

#34 — The Light of the Mind

#33 — Ask Me Anything 4

#32 — The Best Podcast Ever

#31 — Evolving Minds

#30 — Inside the Crucible

#29 — Throw Open the Gates

#28 — Meat Without Misery

#27 — Ask Me Anything 3

#26 — The Logic of Violence

#25 — Behind the Gun

#24 — Ask Me Anything 2

#23 — Islam and the Future of Tolerance (Audiobook Excerpts)

#22 — Surviving the Cosmos

#21 — On the Maintenance of Civilization

#20 — Still Sleepwalking Toward Armageddon

#19 — The Riddle Of The Gun (Revisited)

#18 — The Multiverse & You (& You & You & You...)

#17 — What I Really Think About Profiling

#16 — The Dark Side

#15 — Questions Along the Path

#14 — The Virtues of Cold Blood

#13 — The Moral Gaze

#12 — Leaving the Church

#11 — Shouldering the Burden of History

#10 — Faith vs. Fact

#9 — Final Thoughts On Chomsky

#8 — Ask Me Anything 1

#7 — Through the Eyes of a Cult

#6 — The Chapel Hill Murders and 'Militant' Atheism

#5 — After Charlie Hebdo and Other Thoughts

#4 — The Path and the Goal

#3 — WAKING UP — Chapter One

#2 — Why Don't I Criticize Israel?

#1 — Drugs And The Meaning Of Life

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