"I believe that much of white America is experiencing something analogous to what they experienced at the end of the OJ trial," he says. "It just like the divide, the racial divide was suddenly advertised as being a polymyly deep in the country." John McWhorter, the wonderful black linguist, and I say he's black just for those who don't know: It's writing a book on this phenomenon. He calls it the new religion of anti-racism".
Neuroscientist, philosopher, podcaster, author, meditation guru, and unabashed atheist Sam Harris is one of our best-known — and most controversial — public intellectuals. In this bonus episode, he and Rufus talk about consciousness, free will, morality, and people’s stubborn insistence on being irrational.