Making Sense with Sam Harris

#479 — When Robots Take Over

#478 — The Psychedelic Mind

#477 — More From Sam: Iran's Unraveling, The Gaza Information War, AI-Generated Music, and More

#476 — The Bittersweet Age

#475 — The Hard Problem of Consciousness

#474 — More From Sam: Hasan Piker, Islamism, Making Sense Community, and More

#473 — Money, Power, and Moral Failure

#472 — Strange Days on the Right

#471 — The End of History, Revisited

Liberal democracy faces significant challenges as the global political landscape shifts toward authoritarian models and internal polarization. The concept of the "end of history" refers to the progressive evolution of human society toward market-based liberal democracy, rather than a cessation of historical events. Whi...

#470 — Democrats at a Crossroads

#469 — Escaping an Anti-Human Future

The rapid escalation of artificial intelligence presents a civilizational maturity test, shifting from the "baby AI" of social media to autonomous systems capable of strategic reasoning and deception. Tristan Harris, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, argues that current market incentives drive a "race to ...

#468 — More From Sam: Gratitude, Bad Conversations, Conspiracy Addiction, Waffle House Teleportation, and More

#467 — EA, AI, and the End of Work

#466 — What Is Technology Doing to Us?

#465 — More From Sam: Iran, Jihadism, Conspiracism, AI Disruption, the Manosphere, and More

#464 — The Politics of Pragmatism and the Future of California

#463 — Privatizing the Apocalypse

#462 — More From Sam: The Iran War, American Amorality, Tucker Carlson, and More

#461 — Dictators Always Tell You What They'll Do

#460 — When the Center Cannot Hold