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#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?

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#381 - Delusions, Right and Left

#380 - The Roots of Attention

#379 - Regulating Artificial Intelligence

#377 - The Future of Psychedelic Medicine

#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

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