What's the Logic of Torturing a Prisoner

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The state of cutter has been at logger heads with soutie arabia for a few years now. The official line of m b s was that cutter is a terrorist state trying to destroy saudi arabia and put the moslem brotherhood, an power, in its place. Vision 20 30 isits a branded plan that he came out with early in his reign. Is a total effort to reform soutie Arabia and turn it into a country that's basically normal. He says: 'I don't think we should dismiss it too quickly'

Sam Harris speaks to Graeme Wood about Muhammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. They discuss the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the imprisonment of Saudi elites in the Ritz Carlton, the Vision 2030 campaign, relations with Israel, the posture of the Biden administration, energy policy, Saudi efforts to deprogram jihadists, the strange case of Musa Cerantonio, John Walker Lindh, the current condition of ISIS, the war in Ukraine, Russian propaganda, how Finland has made itself invasion-proof, and other topics.

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