Making Sense with Sam Harris

Join neuroscientist, philosopher, and five-time New York Times best-selling author Sam Harris as he explores important and controversial questions about the mind, society, current events, moral philosophy, religion, and rationality—with an overarching focus on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is c

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Every guest on Making Sense with Sam Harris

256 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   Tom Holland

   #406 — The Legacy of Christianity · Apr 2025

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   Jon Favreau

   #407 — Can We Ever Return to Normal Politics? · Apr 2025

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   Jake Tapper

   #415 — The Cover-Up · May 2025

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   Neal Brennan

   #488 — Ego, Ecstasy, and Equanimity · Aug 2026

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   Andrew Marantz

   #172 — Among the Deplorables · Oct 2019

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   Kurt Andersen

   #103 — American Fantasies · Nov 2017

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   Lynn Novick

   #176 — Knowledge & Redemption · Nov 2019

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   Chris Anderson

   #349 — Generosity, Cynicism, and the Future of Doing Good · Jan 2024

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   Michael Pollan

   #475 — The Hard Problem of Consciousness · 2 episodes

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    Amanda Knox

    #345 — Resilience · Dec 2023

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    Eric Topol

    #256 — A Contagion of Bad Ideas · 2 episodes

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    Daniel Markovits

    #205 — The Failure of Meritocracy · May 2020

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    Mustafa Suleyman

    #332 — Can We Contain Artificial Intelligence? · Aug 2023

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    Megan Phelps-Roper

    #314 — The Cancellation of J.K. Rowling · 2 episodes

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    Siddhartha Mukherjee

    #485 — The New Science of Cancer · 4 episodes

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    Jared Diamond

    #161 — Rise & Fall · Jun 2019

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    Kathleen Belew

    #169 — Omens of a Race War · Sep 2019

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18. —
    Eric Schmidt

    #280 — The Future of Artificial Intelligence · Apr 2022

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19. —
    Amishi Jha

    #380 — The Roots of Attention · Aug 2024

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20. —
    Andrew Yang

    #262 — The Future of American Democracy · 4 episodes

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    George Saunders

    #372 — Life & Work · Jun 2024

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    Laurie Santos

    #196 — The Science of Happiness · Apr 2020

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    David Deutsch

    #414 — Strange Truths · 3 episodes

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    Charles Murray

    #73 — Forbidden Knowledge · Apr 2017

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25. —
    Barton Gellman

    #384 — Stress Testing Our Democracy · Sep 2024

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26. —
    David Frum

    #426 — How Bad Is It? · 5 episodes

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    Fareed Zakaria

    #83 — The Politics of Emergency · Jun 2017

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28. —
    Lawrence Wright

    #61 — The Power of Belief · Jan 2017

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    Mark Bowden

    #88 — Must We Accept a Nuclear North Korea? · Jul 2017

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    Masha Gessen

    #131 — Dictators, Immigration, #MeToo, and Other Imponderables · Jul 2018

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    Meghan Daum

    #180 — Sex & Power · Dec 2019

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    Rebecca Traister

    #141— Is #MeToo Going Too Far? · Nov 2018

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    Scott Wiener
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    Adam Gazzaley

    #226 — The Price of Distraction · Nov 2020

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    Alina Chan
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    Amesh Adalja

    #191 — Early Thoughts on a Pandemic · Mar 2020

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    Andrew McAfee

    #170 — The Great Uncoupling · Oct 2019

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    Andrew Sullivan

    #49 — The Lesser Evil · Oct 2016

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    Andy Clark

    #322 — Predicting Reality · Jun 2023

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    Anne Applebaum

    #429 — The New World Order · 4 episodes

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