Making Sense Podcast

Join neuroscientist, philosopher, and bestselling author Sam Harris as he explores the mind, society, and current events. Account run by Team Sam.

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Being jacked and saying "I just eat clean" when you're on testosterone and steroids is considered dishonest. Why is hiding GLP-1 use any different? Sam Harris on the ethics of body transformation secrets.

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Trump’s $1.8 Billion Slush Fund: Sam Harris on corruption, political double standards, and why the public response feels strangely muted in the face of it all.

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“Maybe we’re not a paper tiger… but we’re something close.” Sam Harris on American weakness, military readiness, and the cost of bluffing your way through global conflict.

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Supporting Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and saying America deserved 9/11 will get you... a New York Times style profile, an op-ed, and an Ezra Klein endorsement. This is not sanity. This is suicide.

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"We need less noise, more signal, and more civility." — Sam on why we built Making Sense Community. Subscribe before June 1st and it's included free.

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"That's what a genocide is — the eradication project." Sam Harris on the deliberate dumbing down of our moral vocabulary.

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NEW EPISODE
Hasan Piker, Islamism, Making Sense Community, and More (Ep. 474)
Sam and Jaron discuss the launch of Making Sense Community, Sam’s Ben Shapiro conversation, NYT's embrace of Hasan Piker, Zohran Mamdani’s approach to Islamism, and the misuse of the word genocide.

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Sam Harris calls it, "Fascinating and scary."

Check out AM I?, a new documentary about AI consiousness. Link below. 👇

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WATCH: https://t.co/20M4gNfDWm

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Sam Harris speaks with @benshapiro about Trump's second term surprises, familial corruption, tariff policy, the ideological world of Tucker Carlson, the spread of conspiracism, JD Vance's political calculations, and the future of Israel and the Palestinian question.

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A new documentary exec produced by Sam Harris, "Unraveling the Dream," traces the full arc of psychedelic science: from early pioneers, through the dark years, to today's renaissance. What do these states reveal about the mind? Link below.

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"To be able to put down the devices and read a physical book is almost a revolutionary act now."
– Sam Harris

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Joe Rogan has brought conspiracy thinking to scale perhaps more than anyone. It's totally unprincipled. It's getting people killed. And yet he thinks he's just playing a game.

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Ezra Klein’s recent video about the “one-state reality” of Israelis and Palestinians caused a stir. It’s what a foreigner might think who isn’t curious about what Israelis and Palestinians think is happening to them.
Here is @havivrettiggur response:

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Sam Harris on Zohran Mamdani: "He can seem like someone who just cares about people struggling in New York. But double-click on his political allegiances and you get a picture of someone captured by a sinister theocratic agenda."

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Sam Harris on why Bret Weinstein isn't someone to take seriously... and why Rogan should let actual experts do the postmortem on COVID.