Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris 520 - #493 — Two Reasons to Meditate

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 changing our sense of how we should live. Sam is also the creator of the Waking Up app. Combining Sam's decades of mindfulness practice, profound wisdom from varied philosophical and contemplative traditions, and a commitment to a secular, scientific worldview, Waking Up is a resource for anyone interested in living a more examined, fulfilling life—and a new operating system for the mind. Waking Up offers free subscriptions to anyone who can't afford one, and donates a minimum of 10% of profits to the most effective charities around the world. To learn more, please go to WakingUp.com. Sam Harris received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.

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Making Sense with Sam Harris

Episodes

#493 — Two Reasons to Meditate

#492 — The Second Plane, 25 Years Later

#491 — The Suicide of the Left

#490 — Lies, Bulls**t, and the Rule of Law

#489 — More From Sam: A Fabulist at Cambridge, the Strait of Hormuz, AOC in 2028, and More

#150 — The Map of Misunderstanding (From the Archive)

#488 — Ego, Ecstasy, and Equanimity

#487 — Is AI Already Conscious?

#486 — Luck All the Way Down

#485 — The New Science of Cancer

#484 — Artificial Intimacy

#483 — The Knots We Tie Ourselves Into

#482 — More From Sam: The Iran Deal, College in the AI Age, Mamdani's DSA, and More

#481 — Sam Harris Receives the 2026 Richard Dawkins Award

#480 — The Economics of Everything

#479 — When Robots Take Over

#478 — The Psychedelic Mind

#477 — More From Sam: Iran's Unraveling, The Gaza Information War, AI-Generated Music, and More

#476 — The Bittersweet Age

#475 — The Hard Problem of Consciousness

#474 — More From Sam: Hasan Piker, Islamism, Making Sense Community, and More

#473 — Money, Power, and Moral Failure

#472 — Strange Days on the Right

#471 — The End of History, Revisited

#470 — Democrats at a Crossroads

#469 — Escaping an Anti-Human Future

#468 — More From Sam: Gratitude, Bad Conversations, Conspiracy Addiction, Waffle House Teleportation, and More

#467 — EA, AI, and the End of Work

#466 — What Is Technology Doing to Us?

#465 — More From Sam: Iran, Jihadism, Conspiracism, AI Disruption, the Manosphere, and More

#464 — The Politics of Pragmatism and the Future of California

#463 — Privatizing the Apocalypse

#462 — More From Sam: The Iran War, American Amorality, Addressing Hopelessness, Tucker, and More

#461 — Dictators Always Tell You What They'll Do

#460 — When the Center Cannot Hold

#459 — More From Sam: Corruption, Immigration, The End of White-Collar Work, and More

#458 — The Bulwark Against MAGA

#457 — More From Sam: The Epstein Files, The Newsom Factor, Don Lemon's Arrest, AI Market Disruption, and More

#456 — American Fascism

#455 — More From Sam: Guns, Propaganda, AI, and Power Unbound

#454 — More From Sam: Minnesota, Greenland, Iran, S**thole Countries, and More

#453 — AI and the New Face of Antisemitism

#452 — Is Wokeness Finally Dead?

#451 — The One Resolution That Matters Most

#450 — More From Sam: Resolutions, Conspiracies, Demonology, and the Fate of the World

#449 — Dogma, Tribe, and Truth

#448 — The Philosophy of Good and Evil

#447 — The Unraveling of American Power

#446 — How to Do the Most Good

#445 — More From Sam: Marjorie Taylor Greene, Billionaires, Thanksgiving Political Debates, & Rapid Fire Questions