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#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?
#382 — The Eye of Nature
#381 — Delusions, Right and Left
#380 — The Roots of Attention
#379 — Regulating Artificial Intelligence
#378 — Digital Delusions
#377 — The Future of Psychedelic Medicine 2
#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
Making Sense of Meditation | Episode 10 of The Essential Sam Harris
#322 — Predicting Reality
#321 — Reckoning with Parfit
Making Sense of Death | Episode 9 of The Essential Sam Harris
#320 — Constructing Self and World
#319 — The Digital Multiverse
Making Sense of Social Media and the Information Landscape | Episode 8 of The Essential Sam Harris
#318 — Physics & Philosophy
#317 — What Do We Know About Our Minds?
#316 — Self-Defense: Reality and Fantasy
Making Sense of Existential Threat and Nuclear War | Episode 7 of The Essential Sam Harris
#315 — The Great Derangement
#314 — The Cancellation of J.K. Rowling
#313 — Apocalypse
Making Sense of Belief and Unbelief | Episode 6 of The Essential Sam Harris
#312 — The Trouble with AI
#311 — Did SARS-CoV-2 Escape from a Lab?
Making Sense of Free Will | Episode 5 of The Essential Sam Harris
#310 — Social Media & Public Trust
Making Sense of Encounters With Violence | Episode 4 of The Essential Sam Harris
#309 — Vulnerability, Politics, and Moral Worth
#308 — The Long Game
Making Sense of Foundations of Morality | Episode 3 of The Essential Sam Harris
#307 — Twitter, Elon, & Free Speech
Making Sense of Consciousness | Episode 2 of The Essential Sam Harris
#306 — Psychedelics & Mortality
#305 — Moral Knowledge
#304 — Why I Left Twitter
Making Sense of Artificial Intelligence | Episode 1 of The Essential Sam Harris
#303 — The Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried
#302 — Science & Civilization
#301 — The Politics of Unreality: Ukraine and Nuclear Risk
#300 — A Tale of Cancellation
#299 — Steps in the Right Direction
#298 — Leaving the Faith (Rebroadcast)
#297 — Preparing for the End
#296 — Repairing Our Country
#295 — Philosophy and the Good Life
#294 — Status Games
#293 — What I Really Think About Trump and Media Bias
#292 — How Much Does the Future Matter?
#291 — Where is Happiness?
#290 — What Went Wrong?
#289 — Time Management for Mortals
#288 — The End of Global Order
#287 — Why Wealth Matters
#286 — The Paradox of Psychedelics
#285 — American Division
#284 — The Funny Business
#283 — Gun Violence in America
#282 — Do You Really Have a Self?
#281 — Western Culture and Its Discontents
#280 — The Future of Artificial Intelligence
#279 — The Rules of the Stage
#278 — The Man Who Will Be King
#277 — How Does the War in Ukraine End?
#276 — Defending the Global Order
#275 — The Russian War in Ukraine
Absolutely Mental Season 3
Special Episode: Recipes for Future Plagues
#274 — The Future of American Democracy
#273 — Joe Rogan and the Ethics of Apology
Vaccine Mandates, transgender athletes, billionaires… (AMA #19)
#272 — On Disappointing My Audience
#271 — Earning to Give
#270 — What Have We Learned from the Pandemic?
#269 — Deep Time
#268 — The Limits of Self-Knowledge
#267 — The Kingdom of Sleep
#266 — The Limits of Pleasure
#265 — The Religion of Anti-Racism
#264 — Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)
#263 — The Paradox of Death
#262 — The Future of American Democracy
#261 — Belief & Identity
Absolutely Mental Season Two
Ask Me Anything #18
#260 — The Second Plane
#259 — The Reckoning to Come
#258 — The Fall of Afghanistan
#257 — The State of the World
Ask Me Anything #17
#256 — A Contagion of Bad Ideas
#255 — The Future of Intelligence
#254 — The Mating Strategies of Earthlings
#253 — Corporate Courage
#252 — Are We Alone in the Universe?
#251 — Corporate Cowardice
#250 — Broken Conversations
#249 — Distance & Arrival
#248 — Order & Freedom
Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse
#247 — Constructing Minds
#246 — Police Training & Police Misconduct
#245 — Can We Talk About Scary Ideas?
#244 — Food, Climate, and Pandemic Risk
#243 — A Few Points of Confusion
#242 — Psychedelics and the Self
#241 — Final Thoughts on Free Will
#240 — The Boundaries of Self
#239 — Yet Another Call from Ricky Gervais
#238 — How to Build a Universe
#237 — Another Call from Ricky Gervais
#236 — Rebooting New York City
#235 — A Call from Ricky Gervais
#234 — The Divided Mind
#233 — The Groves of Misinformation
#232 — Inequality and Revolution
#231 — Crossing the Abyss
#230 — An Insurrection of Lies
#229 — A Few Thoughts for a New Year
#228 — Doing Good
#227 — Knowing the Mind
Making Sense with Sam Harris
#226 — The Price of Distraction
#225 — Republic of Lies
#224 — The Key to Trump's Appeal
#223 — A Conversation with Andrew Sullivan
#222 — A Pandemic of Incompetence
#221 — Success, Failure, & the Common Good
#220 - The Information Apocalypse
#219 — The Power of Compassion
#218 — Welcome to the Cult Factory
#217 — The New Religion of Anti-Racism
#216 — A Conversation with Graeme Wood
#215 — A Conversation with David Miliband
#214 — A Conversation with Siddhartha Mukherjee
#213 — The Worst Epidemic
#212 — A Conversation with Kathryn Paige Harden
#211 — The Nature of Human Nature
#210 — The Logic of Doomsday
#209 — A Good Life
#208 — Existential Risk
#207 — Can We Pull Back From The Brink?
#206 — A Conversation with David Frum
#205 — The Failure of Meritocracy
#204 — A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt
#203 — A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan
#202 — A Conversation with Andrew Yang
#201 — A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari
#200 — Creatures of Habit
#199 — A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan
#198 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom
#197 — A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan
#196 — The Science of Happiness
#195 — Social Cohesion is Everything
#194 — The New Future of Work
#193 — Meditation in an Emergency
#192 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom
#191 — Early Thoughts on a Pandemic
#190 — How Should We Respond to Coronavirus?
#189 — Wealth & Happiness
#188 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom
#187 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom
#186 — The Bomb
#185 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom
#184 — The Conversational Nature of Reality
#183 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom
#182 — Unlearning Race
#181 — The Illusory Self
#180 — Sex & Power
#179 — The Unquiet Mind
#178 — The Reality Illusion
#177 — Psychedelic Science
#176 — Knowledge & Redemption
#175 — Leaving the Faith
#174 — Life & Mind
#173 — Anti-Semitism and Its Discontents
#172 — Among the Deplorables
#171 — Escaping a Christian Cult
#170 — The Great Uncoupling
#169 — Omens of a Race War
#168 — Mind, Space, & Motion
#167 — A Few Thoughts on White Supremacy
#166 — The Plague Years
#165 — Journey into Wokeness
#164 — Cause & Effect
#163 — Ricky Gervais
#162 — Medical Intelligence
#161 — Rise & Fall
#160 — The Revenge of History
#159 — Conscious
#158 — Understanding Humans in the Wild
#157 — What Does the Mueller Report Really Say?
#156 — The Evolution of Culture
#155 — Mental Models
#154 — What Do Jihadists Really Want? (2019)
#153 — Possible Minds
#152 — The Trouble with Facebook
#151 — Will We Destroy the Future?
#150 — The Map of Misunderstanding
#149 — The Problem of Addiction
#148 — Jack Dorsey
#147 — Stephen Fry
#146 — Digital Capitalism
#145 — The Information War
The Drive Interview with Peter Attia
#144 — Conquering Hate
#143 — The Keys to the Mind
#142 — Addiction, Depression, and a Meaningful Life
#141— Is #MeToo Going Too Far?
The TED Interview
#140 — Burning Down the Fourth Estate
#139 — Sacred & Profane
Introducing Waking Up
#138 — The Edge of Humanity
#137 — Safe Space
#136 — Digital Humanism
#135 — Navigating Sex and Gender
#134 — Beyond the Politics of Race
#133 — Globalism on the Brink
#132 — Freeing the Hostages
#131 — Dictators, Immigration, #MeToo, and Other Imponderables
#130 — Universal Basic Income
#129 — An Insider’s View of Medicine
#128 — Transformations of Mind
#127 — Freedom from the Known
#126 — In Defense of Honor
#125 — What Is Christianity?
#124 — In Search of Reality
#123 — Identity & Honesty
#122 — Extreme Housekeeping Edition
#121 — White Power
#120 — What Is and What Matters
#119 — Hidden Motives
# 118 — The View from Trumpistan
#117 — Networks, Power, and Chaos
The Russell Brand Interview
#116 — AI: Racing Toward the Brink
#115 — Sam Harris, Lawrence Krauss, and Matt Dillahunty (1)
#114 — Politics and Sanity
#113 — Consciousness and the Self
#112 — The Intellectual Dark Web
#111 — The Science of Meditation
#110 — The Change Artist
#109— Biology and Culture
#108 — Defending the Experts
#107 — Is Life Actually Worth Living?
#106 — Humanity 2.0
#105 — Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Matt Dillahunty
#104 — The Lessons of Death
#103 — American Fantasies
#102 — Is Buddhism True?
#101 — Defending the Republic
#100 — Facing the Crowd
The "After On" Interview
#99 — What Happened to Liberalism?
#98 — Into the Dark Land
#97 — The Impossible War
#96 — The Nature of Consciousness
#95 — What You Need to Know About Climate Change
#94 — Frontiers of Intelligence
#93 — Identity & Terror
#92 — The Limits of Persuasion
#91 — The Biology of Good and Evil
#90 — Living With Violence
#89 — On Becoming a Better Person
#88 — Must We Accept a Nuclear North Korea?
#87 — Triggered
#86 — From Cells to Cities
#85 — Is this the End of Europe?
#84 — Landscapes of Mind
#83 — The Politics of Emergency
#82 — The End of the World According to ISIS
#81 — Leaving Islam
#80 — The Unraveling
#79 — The Road to Tyranny
#78 — Persuasion and Control
#77 — The Moral Complexity of Genetics
#76 — The Path to Impeachment
#75 — Ask Me Anything 7
#74 — What Should We Eat?
#73 — Forbidden Knowledge
#72 — Privacy and Security
#71 — What Is Technology Doing to Us?
#70 — Beauty and Terror
#69 — The Russia Connection
#68 — Reality and the Imagination
#67 — Meaning and Chaos
#66 — Living with Robots
#65 — We're All Cucks Now
#64 — Ask Me Anything 6
#63 — Why Meditate?
#62 — What is True?
#61 — The Power of Belief
#60 — An Evening with Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris (2)
#59 — Friend & Foe
#58 — The Putin Question
#57 — An Evening with Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris (1)
#56 — Abusing Dolores
#55 — Islamism vs Secularism
#54 — Trumping The World
#53 — The Dawn of Artificial Intelligence
#52 — Finding Our Way in the Cosmos
#51 — The Most Powerful Clown
#50 — The Borders of Tolerance
#49 — The Lesser Evil
#48 — What Is Moral Progress?
#47 — The Frontiers of Political Correctness
#46 — The End of Faith Sessions 3
#45 — Ask Me Anything 5
#44 — Being Good and Doing Good
#43 — What Do Jihadists Really Want?
#42 — Racism and Violence in America
#41 — Faith in Reason
#40 — Complexity & Stupidity
#39 — Free Will Revisited
#38 — The End of Faith Sessions 2
#37 — Thinking in Public
#36 — What Makes Us Safer?
#35 — The End Of Faith Sessions 1
#34 — The Light of the Mind
#33 — Ask Me Anything 4
#32 — The Best Podcast Ever
#31 — Evolving Minds
#30 — Inside the Crucible
#29 — Throw Open the Gates
#28 — Meat Without Misery
#27 — Ask Me Anything 3
#26 — The Logic of Violence
#25 — Behind the Gun
#24 — Ask Me Anything 2
#23 — Islam and the Future of Tolerance (Audiobook Excerpts)
#22 — Surviving the Cosmos
#21 — On the Maintenance of Civilization
#20 — Still Sleepwalking Toward Armageddon
#19 — The Riddle Of The Gun (Revisited)
#18 — The Multiverse & You (& You & You & You...)
#17 — What I Really Think About Profiling
#16 — The Dark Side
#15 — Questions Along the Path
#14 — The Virtues of Cold Blood
#13 — The Moral Gaze
#12 — Leaving the Church
#11 — Shouldering the Burden of History
#10 — Faith vs. Fact
#9 — Final Thoughts On Chomsky
#8 — Ask Me Anything 1
#7 — Through the Eyes of a Cult
#6 — The Chapel Hill Murders and 'Militant' Atheism
#5 — After Charlie Hebdo and Other Thoughts
#4 — The Path and the Goal
#3 — WAKING UP — Chapter One
#2 — Why Don't I Criticize Israel?
#1 — Drugs And The Meaning Of Life
How to talk to a Christian
Looking for the Self (26 Minutes)
Mindfulness Meditation (9 Minutes)