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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   Gary Taubes

   #74 — What Should We Eat? · May 2017

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   Gavin de Becker

   #90 — Living With Violence · Aug 2017

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   Geoffrey West

   #86 — From Cells to Cities · Jul 2017

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   George Packer

   #444 — America's Zombie Democracy · Nov 2025

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   Graeme Wood

   #339 — The Infernal Logic of Jihad · 5 episodes

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   Haviv Rettig Gur

   #422 — Zionism & Jihadism · Jun 2025

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   Ian Bremmer

   #277 — How Does the War in Ukraine End? · 2 episodes

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   Jack Goldstone

   #232 — Inequality and Revolution · Jan 2021

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   James Fadiman

   #242 — Psychedelics and the Self · Mar 2021

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    James Kirchick

    #491 — The Suicide of the Left · 2 episodes

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    Jason Fried

    #253 — Corporate Courage · Jun 2021

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    Jay Garfield

    #282 — Do You Really Have a Self? · May 2022

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    Jeannie Fontana

    #337 — The Future of Psychedelic Medicine · Oct 2023

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    Jeff McMahan
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    Jennifer Doudna

    #106 — Humanity 2.0 · Nov 2017

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    Jesse Singal

    #250 — Broken Conversations · May 2021

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    John Gray

    #354 — Is Moral Progress a Fantasy? · Feb 2024

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    John Spencer

    #366 — Urban Warfare 2.0 · May 2024

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    Jonah Goldberg

    #460 — When the Center Cannot Hold · 4 episodes

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    Jonas Kaplan

    #261 — Belief & Identity · Sep 2021

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    Jonathan Rauch

    #456 — American Fascism · 2 episodes

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    Joseph Goldstein

    #4 — The Path and the Goal · Oct 2014

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    Joseph Romm

    #95 — What You Need to Know About Climate Change · Sep 2017

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    Joshua Oppenheimer

    #13 — The Moral Gaze · Jul 2015

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    Judea Pearl

    #453 — AI and the New Face of Antisemitism · 2 episodes

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    Juliette Kayyem

    #36 — What Makes Us Safer? · May 2016

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    Katherine Stewart

    #401 — Christian Nationalism and the New Right · Feb 2025

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    Kieran Setiya

    #295 — Philosophy and the Good Life · Sep 2022

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    Lawrence Krauss

    #115 — Sam Harris, Lawrence Krauss, and Matt Dillahunty (1) · 2 episodes

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    Lloyd Blankfein

    #473 — Money, Power, and Moral Failure · Apr 2026

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    Maajid Nawaz

    #59 — Friend & Foe · Jan 2017

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    Marc Lipsitch

    #425 — Are We Prepared for the Next Pandemic? · Jul 2025

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    Mark Lilla

    #99 — What Happened to Liberalism? · Sep 2017

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    Martie Haselton

    #135 — Navigating Sex and Gender · Aug 2018

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    Matt Dillahunty
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    Matt Mahan

    #464 — The Politics of Pragmatism and the Future of California · Mar 2026

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    Matt McCarthy

    #166 — The Plague Years · Aug 2019

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    Matt Mullenweg

    #194 — The New Future of Work · Mar 2020

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    Matt Taibbi

    #140 — Burning Down the Fourth Estate · Oct 2018

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    Matt Thornton

    #316 — Self-Defense: Reality and Fantasy · Apr 2023

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