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Making Sense with Sam Harris — 514 episodes · page 1 of 6

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#498 — More From Sam: Bond Villains, Useful Idiots, Firing Squads, and More

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#497 — The Confidence Man

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#496 — The Oldest Lie

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#495 — Foreign Policy for Sale

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#494 — A Coin Toss for the Future

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#493 — Two Reasons to Meditate

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#492 — The Second Plane, 25 Years Later

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#491 — The Suicide of the Left

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#490 — Lies, Bulls**t, and the Rule of Law

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

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

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#488 — Ego, Ecstasy, and Equanimity

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#487 — Is AI Already Conscious?

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#486 — Luck All the Way Down

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#485 — The New Science of Cancer

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#484 — Artificial Intimacy

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#483 — The Knots We Tie Ourselves Into

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

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#481 — Sam Harris Receives the 2026 Richard Dawkins Award

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#480 — The Economics of Everything

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#479 — When Robots Take Over

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#478 — The Psychedelic Mind

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

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#476 — The Bittersweet Age

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#475 — The Hard Problem of Consciousness

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

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#473 — Money, Power, and Moral Failure

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#472 — Strange Days on the Right

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#471 — The End of History, Revisited

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#470 — Democrats at a Crossroads

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#469 — Escaping an Anti-Human Future

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

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#467 — EA, AI, and the End of Work

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#466 — What Is Technology Doing to Us?

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

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

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#463 — Privatizing the Apocalypse

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

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

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#460 — When the Center Cannot Hold

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

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#458 — The Bulwark Against MAGA

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

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#456 — American Fascism

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

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

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#453 — AI and the New Face of Antisemitism

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#452 — Is Wokeness Finally Dead?

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#451 — The One Resolution That Matters Most

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

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#449 — Dogma, Tribe, and Truth

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#448 — The Philosophy of Good and Evil

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#447 — The Unraveling of American Power

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#446 — How to Do the Most Good

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

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#444 — America's Zombie Democracy

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#443 — What Is Christian Nationalism?

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

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#441 — The Threat of Civil War

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#440 — A World in Crisis

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#439 — How to Lose a Democracy

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

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#437 — Two Years Since 10/7

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#436 — A Crisis of Trust

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#435 — The Last Invention

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#434 — Can We Survive AI?

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#433 — How Did We Get Here?

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#432 — The Undoing of America

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#431 — What Is Happening on College Campuses?

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

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#429 — The New World Order

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#428 — Political Extremism

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#427 — AI Friends & Enemies

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#426 — How Bad Is It?

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#425 — Are We Prepared for the Next Pandemic?

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

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

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#422 — Zionism & Jihadism

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

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#420 — Countdown to Superintelligence

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

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#418 — A Future for Democrats

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#417 — Philosophy for Life

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

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#415 — The Cover-Up

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#414 — Strange Truths

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

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#412 — Better Things & Better People

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#411 — The Victimhood Pandemic

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#410 — The Whole Catastrophe

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

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#408 — Finding Equanimity in Chaos

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#407 — Can We Ever Return to Normal Politics?

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#406 — The Legacy of Christianity

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

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#404 — What If Consciousness Is Fundamental?

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#403 — Sanity Check on Trump 2.0

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#402 — The Geopolitics of Trump 2.0

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#401 — Christian Nationalism and the New Right

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#400 — The Politics of Information