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Making Sense with Sam Harris Sam Harris
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Join neuroscientist, philosopher, and best-selling author Sam Harris as he explores important and controversial questions about the human mind, society, and current events.
Sam Harris is the author of five New York Times bestsellers. His books include The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying, Waking Up, and Islam and the Future of Tolerance (with Maajid Nawaz). The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. His writing and public lectures cover a wide range of topics—neuroscience, moral philosophy, religion, meditation practice, human violence, rationality—but generally focus on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live.
Harris's work has been published in more than 20 languages and has been discussed in The New York Times, Time, Scientific American, Nature, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and many other journals. He has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Economist, The Times (London), The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The Annals of Neurology, and elsewhere.
Sam Harris received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.
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#280 — The Future of Artificial Intelligence
In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Eric Schmidt about the ways artificial intelligence is shifting the foundations of human knowledge and posing questions of existential risk.
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Learning how to train your mind is the single greatest investment you can make in life. That’s why Sam Harris created the Waking Up app. From rational mindfulness practice to lessons on some of life’s most important topics, join Sam as he demystifies the practice of meditation and explores the theory behind it. -
#279 — The Rules of the Stage
In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris and Ricky Gervais discuss the infamous Oscar slap.
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#278 — The Man Who Will Be King
In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks to Graeme Wood about Muhammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. They discuss the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the imprisonment of Saudi elites in the Ritz Carlton, the Vision 2030 campaign, relations with Israel, the posture of the Biden administration, energy policy, Saudi efforts to deprogram jihadists, the strange case of Musa Cerantonio, John Walker Lindh, the current condition of ISIS, the war in Ukraine, Russian propaganda, how Finland has made itself invasion-proof, and other topics.
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Learning how to train your mind is the single greatest investment you can make in life. That’s why Sam Harris created the Waking Up app. From rational mindfulness practice to lessons on some of life’s most important topics, join Sam as he demystifies the practice of meditation and explores the theory behind it. -
#277 — How Does the War in Ukraine End?
In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Ian Bremmer about the ongoing war in Ukraine. They discuss the current state of the war, the power of sanctions, Biden's "gaffe" about regime change, fear of nuclear war, the logic of mutually assured destruction, the role of China, the most likely outcomes of the war, and other topics.
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#276 — Defending the Global Order
In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Yuval Noah Harari about the wider implications of Russia’s war of conquest in Ukraine. They discuss different forms of war, Putin’s miscalculation regarding the internal divisions of America and the EU, the problem of misinformation, international norms of behavior, the role of China, the civilizational importance of trust, globalization and de-globalization, existential risk, the role of India, Ukrainian leadership, the danger of nuclear war, regime change in Russia, and other topics.
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#275 — The Russian War in Ukraine
In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Garry Kasparov about Putin’s war of aggression in Ukraine. They discuss Putin’s larger objectives, the perception of the war inside Russia, whether US and EU foreign policy is to blame, the expansion of NATO, American weakness, Republican support for Putin, the sanctions regime, whether the US and EU should impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine, whether to openly seek regime change in Russia, how we can avoid WW3, what post-Putin government in Russia might look like, Western economic entanglement with autocracies, and other topics.
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Customer Reviews
277. Bremmer is a Beast
Top shelf episode. Ian Bremmer is well informed and provided some great insights and details. Thanks Sam for hosting another great guest on topic of Russia & Ukraine.
Self denying tribalist
I really wish I just did sams meditations without listening to his podcast. I felt many time he confuse his self serving biased opinions with facts. Some of his guests like Dr Donald Hoffman have a completely different stand when talking in other podcasts as if Sam hypnotized them with boredom to the point they just agree with everything he says. His position against wokeism is understood but it gets too much to the point he undermines everything the left does. There is a lot of contradictions in his positions that does not make any sense, like he doesn’t believe Israel should exist and yet supporting Israeli bloody occupation denying Palestinian right for a free democratic country. Finally, I just realized that Sam Harris is showing lack of self awareness many times and I thought maybe that’s the trade off for accessing that “bigger wiser mind”. You lose cognitive capabilities to deal with instant reality as you go too often into that meta scale of awareness.
Whatever happened to steelmanning?
If you’re like me and waiting for the neuroscientist to produce a podcast about the mental decline of some of our prominent government officials, you’ll have to wait until the republicans are in power again, assuming that will still be allowed. I find it strange with all his talk about threats to democracy, he doesn’t seem to consider that unelected bureaucrats are using these octogenarians with a recognized name as meat puppets to forward their agenda. But I predict that when he doesn’t like the agenda, he’ll develop a problem with it and say so.
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