Life is an Adventure

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The speaker's life has been full of diverse experiences, including serving in the British Army and Foreign Service, walking across Asia for 21 months, acting as a governor in southern Iraq, becoming a professor at Harvard, entering British politics, running for prime minister, and currently working with a nonprofit and teaching at Yale. The speaker's life is characterized by a series of thrilling adventures and remarkable career shifts.

Sam Harris speaks with Rory Stewart about the fraying world order. They discuss the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the problems with nation building, cultural ignorance, tolerance for corruption, our catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan, the role that Islam played in our failures in Afghanistan and Iraq, conspiracy theories, the influence of social media, cults of martyrdom, the war in Ukraine, the age of populism, Trump and the future of NATO, Brexit, the current state of politics, GiveDirectly, and other topics.

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