
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Join neuroscientist, philosopher, and best-selling author Sam Harris as he explores important and controversial questions about the human mind, society, and current events.
Sam Harris is the author of five New York Times bestsellers. His books include The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying, Waking Up, and Islam and the Future of Tolerance (with Maajid Nawaz). The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. His writing and public lectures cover a wide range of topics—neuroscience, moral philosophy, religion, meditation practice, human violence, rationality—but generally focus on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live.
Harris's work has been published in more than 20 languages and has been discussed in The New York Times, Time, Scientific American, Nature, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and many other journals. He has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Economist, The Times (London), The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The Annals of Neurology, and elsewhere.
Sam Harris received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.
Latest episodes

#275 — The Russian War in Ukraine
Mar 10, 2022 • 37min

Absolutely Mental Season 3
Mar 2, 2022 • 49min

Special Episode: Recipes for Future Plagues
Feb 28, 2022 • 1h 57min

Making Sense Presents: Recipes for Future Plagues
Feb 28, 2022 • 1h 57min

#274 — The Future of American Democracy
Feb 11, 2022 • 2h 20min

#273 — Joe Rogan and the Ethics of Apology
Feb 7, 2022 • 20min

Vaccine Mandates, transgender athletes, billionaires… (AMA #19)
Jan 31, 2022 • 28min

#272 — On Disappointing My Audience
Jan 11, 2022 • 46min

#271 — Earning to Give
Dec 24, 2021 • 1h 15min

#270 — What Have We Learned from the Pandemic?
Dec 14, 2021 • 2h 51min