Everytime Joe Biden was mentioned in Making Sense with Sam Harris
Everytime Joe Biden was mentioned in Making Sense with Sam Harris
#225 — Republic of Lies
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris discusses President Trump's failure to concede the 2020 presidential election. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length e
Nov 18, 2020·0h 31m·0(-)#274 — The Future of American Democracy
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Anne Applebaum, David Frum, Barton Gellman, and George Packer about the ongoing threat to American democracy posed by Republican misinformation and disinformation regarding the 2
Feb 11, 2022·2h 20m·0(-)#204 — A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Jonathan Haidt about the maintenance of a healthy society. They discuss the problem of orthodoxy, the history of political polarization in the US, the breakdown of public convers
May 18, 2020·1h 5m·0(-)#223 — A Conversation with Andrew Sullivan
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris and Andrew Sullivan sing the praises of President Trump. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.o
Oct 30, 2020·1h 35m·0(-)#307 — Twitter, Elon, & Free Speech
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris discusses Elon Musk's behavior on Twitter and the illusion of "free-speech absolutism." If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full
Dec 30, 2022·0h 27m·0(-)#230 — An Insurrection of Lies
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris discusses two dangerous misconceptions about the siege of the Capitol. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes
Jan 11, 2021·0h 41m·0(-)#334 — The Low-Trust Society
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with David Brooks about the state of American democracy and the liberal world order. They discuss the weakness of moral individualism, the loss of social trust, the dangers of identit
Sep 18, 2023·0h 49m·0(-)#310 — Social Media & Public Trust
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Bari Weiss, Michael Shellenberger, and Renee DiResta about the release of “the Twitter files” and the loss of trust in the institutions of media and government. They discuss
Feb 1, 2023·1h 8m·0(-)#293 — What I Really Think About Trump and Media Bias
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris responds to a controversy over a recent podcast appearance. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharri
Aug 25, 2022·0h 43m·0(-)#281 — Western Culture and Its Discontents
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Douglas Murray about his new book, “The War on the West.” They discuss the problem of hyper partisanship on the Left and Right, the primacy of culture, Hunter Biden’s lapto
May 2, 2022·1h 11m·0(-)#216 — A Conversation with Graeme Wood
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Graeme Wood about the breakdown of social order in the U.S. They discuss the recent eruptions of violence, the loss of trust in the media, the cases of Jacob Blake and Kyle Ritte
Sep 3, 2020·0h 50m·0(-)#258 — The Fall of Afghanistan
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Peter Bergen about the US exit from Afghanistan, the resurgence of the Taliban, and his new book, “The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden.” They discuss the Neo-isolationist co
Aug 23, 2021·0h 46m·0(-)#278 — The Man Who Will Be King
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam 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 Visio
Apr 13, 2022·0h 37m·0(-)#329 — What Happened to the Republican Party?
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Bret Stephens about the current state of the Republican Party. They discuss the strange change in Republican attitudes toward Putin, the character of Tucker Carlson, the war in U
Aug 12, 2023·1h 0m·0(-)#188 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris and Paul Bloom speak about the virtues of President Trump, the campaign prospects of Bloomberg and Sanders, the asymmetrical norms of the Democratic and Republican parties, the marginal role
Feb 28, 2020·0h 32m·0(-)#202 — A Conversation with Andrew Yang
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Andrew Yang about the Covid-19 pandemic. They discuss the future of the middle class, Andrew’s experience campaigning for President, the need to build new digital infrastructur
May 11, 2020·0h 38m·0(-)#231 — Crossing the Abyss
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with General Stanley McChrystal and Chris Fussell about the radicalization of the far Right under Trump. They discuss the events of January 6, 2021, the behavior of the Capitol police
Jan 17, 2021·1h 14m·0(-)#322 — Predicting Reality
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Andy Clark about the predictive brain, embodied cognition, and the extended mind. They discuss the structure of perception, novelty, precision, pain, psychedelics, emotion, ways
Jun 13, 2023·0h 54m·0(-)#333 — Sanity Check on Climate Change
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Chris Field about climate change and its consequences. They discuss skepticism about climate change, the accuracy of climate models, the magnitude of temperature increases, how g
Sep 5, 2023·1h 7m·0(-)#207 — Can We Pull Back From The Brink?
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam discusses the recent social protests and civil unrest, in light of what we know about racism and police violence in America. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCR
Jun 13, 2020·1h 52m·0(-)#250 — Broken Conversations
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Jesse Singal about a variety of controversial topics. They discuss fragmentation in the media, bad incentives in journalism, Jesse’s encounters with cancel culture, transgender
May 21, 2021·0h 45m·0(-)#326 — AI & Information Integrity
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Nina Schick about generative AI and information integrity. They discuss the challenges of regulating AI, authentication vs detection, fake video, hyper-personalization of informa
Jul 6, 2023·0h 49m·0(-)#275 — The Russian War in Ukraine
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam 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 i
Mar 10, 2022·0h 37m·0(-)#220 - The Information Apocalypse
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Nina Schick about the growing epidemic of misinformation and disinformation. They discuss the coming problem of “deep fakes,” the history of Russian “active measures” aga
Oct 17, 2020·0h 47m·0(-)#272 — On Disappointing My Audience
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam discusses some of the topics he has and hasn't covered, to the disappointment of many Making Sense listeners. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain acc
Jan 11, 2022·0h 46m·0(-)#277 — How Does the War in Ukraine End?
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam 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 log
Apr 3, 2022·0h 38m·0(-)#232 — Inequality and Revolution
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Jack Goldstone about the rise in social inequality and political instability in the United States. They discuss how wealth is deployed, the loss of social mobility, comparative j
Jan 27, 2021·0h 41m·0(-)#287 — Why Wealth Matters
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Morgan Housel about the psychology of money and investing. They discuss how personal history shapes one’s view of economic risk, the implications of not understanding the futur
Jul 5, 2022·0h 50m·0(-)#288 — The End of Global Order
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Peter Zeihan and Ian Bremmer about Peter's new book, The End of the World is Just the Beginning . They discuss a wide range of issues related to the deglobalization and demograph
Jul 14, 2022·0h 54m·0(-)#296 — Repairing Our Country
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Jonah Goldberg about the state of American politics and civil society. They discuss the hyperpartisanship of the Left and Right, what Trump has done to the Republican party, the
Sep 13, 2022·0h 42m·0(-)#312 — The Trouble with AI
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Stuart Russell and Gary Marcus about recent developments in artificial intelligence and the long-term risks of producing artificial general intelligence (AGI). They discuss the l
Mar 7, 2023·1h 26m·0(-)#198 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris and Paul Bloom discuss the false tradeoff between the economy and public health, putting a price on human life, framing effects for moral questions, how Covid-19 may change human behavior, "
Apr 16, 2020·0h 58m·0(-)#176 — Knowledge & Redemption
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Lynn Novick about her four-part documentary "College Behind Bars." The film follows the progress of students in the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) as they pursue their undergraduat
Nov 23, 2019·1h 3m·0(-)#270 — What Have We Learned from the Pandemic?
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Nicholas Christakis about the lessons of the COVID pandemic. They discuss our failures to coordinate an effective response, the politics surrounding vaccination, vaccine efficacy
Dec 14, 2021·2h 51m·0(-)#244 — Food, Climate, and Pandemic Risk
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Bruce Friedrich and Liz Specht from the Good Food Institute about the way the problems of climate change and pandemic risk are directly connected to animal agriculture. The Good
Apr 6, 2021·1h 12m·0(-)
Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse
Making Sense with Sam HarrisIn this nearly 4-hour SPECIAL EPISODE , Rob Reid delivers a 100-minute monologue (broken up into 4 segments, and interleaved with discussions with Sam) about the looming danger of a man-made pandemic ,
Apr 24, 2021·3h 41m·0(-)#213 — The Worst Epidemic
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Gabriel Dance about the global epidemic of child sexual abuse. They discuss how misleading the concept of “child pornography” is, the failure of governments and tech companie
Aug 4, 2020·2h 14m·0(-)#330 — The Doomsday Machine
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Carl Robichaud about the ongoing threat of nuclear war. They discuss the film "Oppenheimer," the ethics of dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the false lessons of t
Aug 16, 2023·1h 35m·0(-)#197 — A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Caitlin Flanagan. They discuss the different sorts of experiences people are having during the Covid-19 pandemic, what it has exposed about our education system, the 2020 electio
Apr 12, 2020·0h 30m·0(-)#194 — The New Future of Work
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Matt Mullenweg about the evolution of distributed work. They discuss the benefits of working from home, the new norms of knowledge work, relevant tools and security concerns, the
Mar 25, 2020·1h 44m·0(-)#341 — Gaza & Global Order
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Yuval Noah Harari about the events of October 7th and the resulting war in Gaza. They discuss the unraveling of global order, the failure of the IDF, the incompetence of the Neta
Nov 16, 2023·0h 54m·0(-)#318 — Physics & Philosophy
Making Sense with Sam HarrisSam Harris speaks with Tim Maudlin about the foundations of physics and metaphysics. They talk about the nature of scientific reductionism, emergence, functionalism, the nature of time, presentism vs e
May 1, 2023·0h 54m·0(-)