Making Sense with Sam Harris

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

#492 — The Second Plane, 25 Years Later

Sep 2026 · 1 book

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The End of Faith

Sam Harris

but that document became the first chapter of the end of faith and the resulting book pitched me into almost every culture war battle we've fought since ▶ tap to play from here

#491 — The Suicide of the Left

Sep 2026 · 1 book

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The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

and you just go to the website and you are pitched into unapologetic communist manifesto ▶ tap to play from here

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

Aug 2026 · 1 book

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Being There

Jerzy Kosiński

i think a lot of his success and the you know his ascendancy and his invulnerability to scandal has less to do with him being some kind of political genius and more to do with the situation in which he has found himself right so i i view him as a the the the the analogy that that has worked for me is that he's kind of an evil version of the chauncey gardner character from the the jersey klasinski book and the being there and the and they the film by that name ▶ tap to play from here

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

Aug 2026

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

Aug 2026 · 2 books

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

but he's perhaps best known in the general public for his book thinking fast and slow which summarizes much of the work he did with trovsky ▶ tap to play from here

The Undoing Project

Michael Lewis

michael lewis also recently wrote a biography of the coneman tversky collaboration and that is called the undoing project ▶ tap to play from here

#488 — Ego, Ecstasy, and Equanimity

Aug 2026

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#487 — Is AI Already Conscious?

Jul 2026

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#486 — Luck All the Way Down

Jul 2026 · 2 books

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The Genetic Lottery: DNA, Behavior, and Health

Kathryn Paige Harden

your last one the genetic lottery ▶ tap to play from here

Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame and the Future of Forgiveness

Catherine Page Harden

original sin on the genetics of vice the problem of blame and the future of forgiveness ▶ tap to play from here

#485 — The New Science of Cancer

Jul 2026 · 1 book

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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Siddhartha Mukherjee

you have an updated version of your pulture prize winning book the emperor of all maladies a biography of cancer which uh came out fifteen years ago ▶ tap to play from here

#484 — Artificial Intimacy

Jul 2026

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#483 — The Knots We Tie Ourselves Into

Jul 2026 · 1 book

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Religion for Atheists

Alain de Botton

i think y your book religion for atheists came out when was that twenty twelve ▶ tap to play from here

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

Jun 2026 · 1 book

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The End of Faith

Sam Harris

i think in um my first book the end of faith i wrote somewhere probably in an end note that it was just obvious that the end game for civilization is some version of one world government ▶ tap to play from here

#481 — Sam Harris Receives the 2026 Richard Dawkins Award

Jun 2026 · 7 books

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