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's decades of mindfulness practice, profound wisdom from varied philosophical and contemplative traditions, and a commitment to a secular, scientific worldview, Waking Up is a resource for anyone interested in living a more examined, fulfilling life—and...
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#486 — Luck All the Way Down
Jul 22, 2026
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#485 — The New Science of Cancer
Jul 14, 2026
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#484 — Artificial Intimacy
Jul 8, 2026
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#483 — The Knots We Tie Ourselves Into
Jul 1, 2026
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#482 — More From Sam: The Iran Deal, College in the AI Age, Mamdani's DSA, and More
Jun 25, 2026
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#481 — Sam Harris Receives the 2026 Richard Dawkins Award
Jun 17, 2026
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#480 — The Economics of Everything
Jun 12, 2026
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#479 — When Robots Take Over
Jun 4, 2026
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#478 — The Psychedelic Mind
May 29, 2026
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#477 — More From Sam: Iran's Unraveling, The Gaza Information War, AI-Generated Music, and More
May 26, 2026
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#476 — The Bittersweet Age
May 20, 2026
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#475 — The Hard Problem of Consciousness
May 12, 2026
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#474 — More From Sam: Hasan Piker, Islamism, Making Sense Community, and More
May 7, 2026
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#473 — Money, Power, and Moral Failure
Apr 29, 2026
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#472 — Strange Days on the Right
Apr 24, 2026
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#471 — The End of History, Revisited
Apr 16, 2026
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#470 — Democrats at a Crossroads
Apr 13, 2026
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#469 — Escaping an Anti-Human Future
Apr 10, 2026
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#468 — More From Sam: Gratitude, Bad Conversations, Conspiracy Addiction, Waffle House Teleportation, and More
Apr 7, 2026
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#467 — EA, AI, and the End of Work
Mar 30, 2026
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#466 — What Is Technology Doing to Us?
Mar 24, 2026
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#465 — More From Sam: Iran, Jihadism, Conspiracism, AI Disruption, the Manosphere, and More
Mar 18, 2026
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#464 — The Politics of Pragmatism and the Future of California
Mar 16, 2026
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#463 — Privatizing the Apocalypse
Mar 11, 2026
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#462 — More From Sam: The Iran War, American Amorality, Addressing Hopelessness, Tucker, and More
Mar 6, 2026
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#461 — Dictators Always Tell You What They'll Do
Feb 25, 2026
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#460 — When the Center Cannot Hold
Feb 20, 2026
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#459 — More From Sam: Corruption, Immigration, The End of White-Collar Work, and More
Feb 13, 2026
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#458 — The Bulwark Against MAGA
Feb 11, 2026
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#457 — More From Sam: The Epstein Files, The Newsom Factor, Don Lemon's Arrest, AI Market Disruption, and More
Feb 5, 2026
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#456 — American Fascism
Feb 4, 2026
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#455 — More From Sam: Guns, Propaganda, AI, and Power Unbound
Jan 30, 2026
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#454 — More From Sam: Minnesota, Greenland, Iran, S**thole Countries, and More
Jan 21, 2026
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#453 — AI and the New Face of Antisemitism
Jan 16, 2026
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#452 — Is Wokeness Finally Dead?
Jan 7, 2026
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#451 — The One Resolution That Matters Most
Dec 31, 2025
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#450 — More From Sam: Resolutions, Conspiracies, Demonology, and the Fate of the World
Dec 30, 2025
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#449 — Dogma, Tribe, and Truth
Dec 22, 2025
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#448 — The Philosophy of Good and Evil
Dec 8, 2025
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#447 — The Unraveling of American Power
Dec 4, 2025
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#446 — How to Do the Most Good
Dec 1, 2025
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#445 — More From Sam: Marjorie Taylor Greene, Billionaires, Thanksgiving Political Debates, & Rapid Fire Questions
Nov 26, 2025
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#444 — America's Zombie Democracy
Nov 17, 2025
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#443 — What Is Christian Nationalism?
Nov 10, 2025
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#442 — More From Sam: Public Speaking, Nuclear War, & Christian Nationalism
Nov 3, 2025
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#441 — The Threat of Civil War
Oct 31, 2025
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#440 — A World in Crisis
Oct 24, 2025
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#439 — How to Lose a Democracy
Oct 14, 2025
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#438 — "More From Sam": Israel-Hamas Deal, Qatari Air Force Base, Trump, Charlie Kirk, Ezra Klein, & Rapid Fire Questions
Oct 11, 2025
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#437 — Two Years Since 10/7
Oct 6, 2025
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#436 — A Crisis of Trust
Oct 3, 2025
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#435 — The Last Invention
Oct 2, 2025
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#434 — Can We Survive AI?
Sep 16, 2025
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#433 — How Did We Get Here?
Sep 6, 2025
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#432 — The Undoing of America
Aug 27, 2025
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#431 — What Is Happening on College Campuses?
Aug 25, 2025
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#430 — "More From Sam": Trump, Gavin Newsom, Class War, DOGE, & Rapid Fire Questions
Aug 22, 2025
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#429 — The New World Order
Aug 11, 2025
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#428 — Political Extremism
Aug 7, 2025
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#427 — AI Friends & Enemies
Jul 25, 2025
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#426 — How Bad Is It?
Jul 23, 2025
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#425 — Are We Prepared for the Next Pandemic?
Jul 21, 2025
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#424 — "More From Sam": Nazi Grok, ICE, Epstein, Social Media, Rapid Fire Questions
Jul 16, 2025
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#423 — "More From Sam": Democracy, Populism, Wealth Inequality, News-Induced Anxiety, & Rapid Fire Questions
Jul 8, 2025
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#422 — Zionism & Jihadism
Jun 19, 2025
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#421 — "More From Sam": Political Violence, Iran, Deportations, Protests, & Rapid Fire Questions
Jun 17, 2025
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#420 — Countdown to Superintelligence
Jun 12, 2025
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#419 — "More From Sam": Elon vs. Trump, Religion, Jordan Peterson, & Rapid Fire Questions
Jun 6, 2025
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#418 — A Future for Democrats
Jun 2, 2025
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#417 — Philosophy for Life
May 28, 2025
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#416 — "More From Sam": Biden's Big Lie, Review of Tapper Interview, Trump, & a Case Against Israel's Actions in Gaza
May 23, 2025
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#415 — The Cover-Up
May 21, 2025
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#414 — Strange Truths
May 12, 2025
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#413 — "More From Sam": Trump & Israel, Corruption, Free Speech Violations, the Democrats, & Ezra Klein
May 6, 2025
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#412 — Better Things & Better People
May 2, 2025
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#411 — The Victimhood Pandemic
Apr 25, 2025
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#410 — The Whole Catastrophe
Apr 20, 2025
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#409 — "More From Sam": Religion, Deportations, Douglas Murray vs. Rogan, & Bill Maher's Dinner with Trump
Apr 16, 2025
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#408 — Finding Equanimity in Chaos
Apr 14, 2025
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#407 — Can We Ever Return to Normal Politics?
Apr 9, 2025
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#406 — The Legacy of Christianity
Apr 7, 2025
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#405 — "More From Sam": Tariffs, SignalGate, Trump, Elon, Douglas Murray, & Joe Rogan
Apr 4, 2025
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#404 — What If Consciousness Is Fundamental?
Mar 25, 2025
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#403 — Sanity Check on Trump 2.0
Mar 10, 2025
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#402 — The Geopolitics of Trump 2.0
Feb 28, 2025
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#401 — Christian Nationalism and the New Right
Feb 18, 2025
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#400 — The Politics of Information
Feb 6, 2025
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#399 — The Politics of Catastrophe
Jan 27, 2025
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#398 — Thoughts Without a Thinker
Jan 21, 2025
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#397 — A New Year's Message from Sam
Jan 1, 2025
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#396 — The Way Forward
Dec 20, 2024
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#395 — Intellectual Authority and Its Discontents
Dec 11, 2024
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#394 — Bringing Back the Mammoth
Dec 3, 2024
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#393 — Is History Repeating Itself?
Nov 26, 2024
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#392 — Technology & Culture
Nov 19, 2024
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#391 — The Reckoning
Nov 11, 2024
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#390 — Final Thoughts on the 2024 Presidential Election
Nov 1, 2024
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#389 — The Politics of Risk
Oct 25, 2024
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#388 — What Is Life?
Oct 21, 2024
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#387 — Politics & Power
Oct 15, 2024
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#386 — Information & Social Order
Oct 7, 2024
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#385 — AI Utopia
Sep 30, 2024
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#384 — Stress Testing Our Democracy
Sep 23, 2024
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#383 — Where Are the Grown-Ups?
Sep 17, 2024
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#382 — The Eye of Nature
Sep 6, 2024
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#381 — Delusions, Right and Left
Aug 26, 2024
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#380 — The Roots of Attention
Aug 23, 2024
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#379 — Regulating Artificial Intelligence
Aug 12, 2024
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#378 — Digital Delusions
Aug 2, 2024
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#377 — The Future of Psychedelic Medicine 2
Jul 26, 2024
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#376 — How Democracies Fail
Jul 19, 2024
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#375 — On the Attempted Assassination of President Trump
Jul 16, 2024
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#374 — Consciousness and the Physical World
Jul 9, 2024
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#373 — Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism
Jul 2, 2024
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#372 — Life & Work
Jun 24, 2024
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#371 — What the Hell Is Happening?
Jun 14, 2024
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#370 — Gender Apartheid and the Future of Iran
Jun 6, 2024
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#369 — Escaping Death
May 30, 2024
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#368 — Freedom & Censorship
May 21, 2024
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#367 — Campus Protests, Antisemitism, and Western Values
May 13, 2024
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#366 — Urban Warfare 2.0
May 7, 2024
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#365 — Reality Check
May 1, 2024
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#364 — Facts & Values
Apr 23, 2024
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#363 — Knowledge Work
Apr 15, 2024
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#362 — Six Months of War
Apr 9, 2024
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#361 — Sam Bankman-Fried & Effective Altruism
Apr 1, 2024
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#360 — We Really Don't Have Free Will?
Mar 27, 2024
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#359 — Getting Used to It
Mar 19, 2024
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#358 — The War in Ukraine
Mar 11, 2024
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#357 — America & World Order
Mar 4, 2024
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#356 — Islam & Freedom
Feb 28, 2024
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#355 — A Falling World
Feb 21, 2024
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#354 — Is Moral Progress a Fantasy?
Feb 16, 2024
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#353 — Race & Reason
Feb 11, 2024
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#352 — Hubris & Chaos
Feb 4, 2024
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#351 — 5 Myths about Israel and the War in Gaza
Jan 30, 2024
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#350 — Sharing Reality
Jan 23, 2024
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#349 — Generosity, Cynicism, and the Future of Doing Good
Jan 16, 2024
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#348 — The Politics of Antisemitism
Jan 5, 2024
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#347 — Finding Sanity in 2024
Jan 2, 2024
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#346 — The Best Kept Secret In History?
Dec 22, 2023
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#345 — Resilience
Dec 18, 2023
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#344 — The War in Gaza
Dec 12, 2023
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#343 — What Is "Islamophobia"?
Dec 6, 2023
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#342 — Animal Minds & Moral Truths
Nov 27, 2023
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#341 — Gaza & Global Order
Nov 16, 2023
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#340 — The Bright Line Between Good and Evil
Nov 7, 2023
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#339 — The Infernal Logic of Jihad
Nov 3, 2023
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#338 — The Sin of Moral Equivalence
Oct 12, 2023
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#337 — The Future of Psychedelic Medicine
Oct 4, 2023
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#336 — The Roots of Identity Politics
Sep 27, 2023
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#335 — A Postmortem on My Response to Covid
Sep 22, 2023
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#334 — The Low-Trust Society
Sep 18, 2023
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#333 — Sanity Check on Climate Change
Sep 5, 2023
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#332 — Can We Contain Artificial Intelligence?
Aug 28, 2023
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#331 — A Golden Age for Assholes
Aug 20, 2023
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#330 — The Doomsday Machine
Aug 16, 2023
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#329 — What Happened to the Republican Party?
Aug 12, 2023
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#328 — Health & Longevity
Aug 2, 2023
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#327 — Transformative Experiences
Jul 21, 2023
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#326 — AI & Information Integrity
Jul 6, 2023
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#325 — A Few Thoughts About RFK Jr.
Jul 3, 2023
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#324 — Debating the Future of AI
Jun 28, 2023
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#323 — Science & Survival
Jun 22, 2023
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Making Sense of Meditation | Episode 10 of The Essential Sam Harris
Jun 18, 2023
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#322 — Predicting Reality
Jun 13, 2023
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#321 — Reckoning with Parfit
Jun 5, 2023
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Making Sense of Death | Episode 9 of The Essential Sam Harris
May 26, 2023
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#320 — Constructing Self and World
May 22, 2023
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#319 — The Digital Multiverse
May 15, 2023
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Making Sense of Social Media and the Information Landscape | Episode 8 of The Essential Sam Harris
May 5, 2023
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#318 — Physics & Philosophy
May 1, 2023
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#317 — What Do We Know About Our Minds?
Apr 20, 2023
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#316 — Self-Defense: Reality and Fantasy
Apr 14, 2023
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Making Sense of Existential Threat and Nuclear War | Episode 7 of The Essential Sam Harris
Apr 12, 2023
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#315 — The Great Derangement
Apr 7, 2023
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#314 — The Cancellation of J.K. Rowling
Mar 31, 2023
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#313 — Apocalypse
Mar 25, 2023
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Making Sense of Belief and Unbelief | Episode 6 of The Essential Sam Harris
Mar 15, 2023
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#312 — The Trouble with AI
Mar 7, 2023
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#311 — Did SARS-CoV-2 Escape from a Lab?
Feb 20, 2023
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Making Sense of Free Will | Episode 5 of The Essential Sam Harris
Feb 14, 2023
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#310 — Social Media & Public Trust
Feb 1, 2023
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Making Sense of Encounters With Violence | Episode 4 of The Essential Sam Harris
Jan 26, 2023
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#309 — Vulnerability, Politics, and Moral Worth
Jan 20, 2023
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#308 — The Long Game
Jan 11, 2023
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Making Sense of Foundations of Morality | Episode 3 of The Essential Sam Harris
Jan 5, 2023
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#307 — Twitter, Elon, & Free Speech
Dec 30, 2022
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Making Sense of Consciousness | Episode 2 of The Essential Sam Harris
Dec 15, 2022
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#306 — Psychedelics & Mortality
Dec 13, 2022
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#305 — Moral Knowledge
Dec 8, 2022
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#304 — Why I Left Twitter
Nov 28, 2022
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Making Sense of Artificial Intelligence | Episode 1 of The Essential Sam Harris
Nov 22, 2022
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#303 — The Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried
Nov 15, 2022
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#302 — Science & Civilization
Nov 11, 2022
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#301 — The Politics of Unreality: Ukraine and Nuclear Risk
Oct 25, 2022
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#300 — A Tale of Cancellation
Oct 12, 2022
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#299 — Steps in the Right Direction
Oct 3, 2022
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#298 — Leaving the Faith (Rebroadcast)
Sep 29, 2022
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#297 — Preparing for the End
Sep 23, 2022
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#296 — Repairing Our Country
Sep 13, 2022
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#295 — Philosophy and the Good Life
Sep 9, 2022
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#294 — Status Games
Aug 31, 2022
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#293 — What I Really Think About Trump and Media Bias
Aug 25, 2022
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#292 — How Much Does the Future Matter?
Aug 14, 2022
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#291 — Where is Happiness?
Jul 28, 2022
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#290 — What Went Wrong?
Jul 21, 2022
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#289 — Time Management for Mortals
Jul 18, 2022
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#288 — The End of Global Order
Jul 14, 2022
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#287 — Why Wealth Matters
Jul 5, 2022
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#286 — The Paradox of Psychedelics
Jun 28, 2022
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#285 — American Division
Jun 24, 2022
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#284 — The Funny Business
Jun 7, 2022
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#283 — Gun Violence in America
May 30, 2022
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#282 — Do You Really Have a Self?
May 23, 2022
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#281 — Western Culture and Its Discontents
May 2, 2022
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#280 — The Future of Artificial Intelligence
Apr 22, 2022
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#279 — The Rules of the Stage
Apr 18, 2022
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#278 — The Man Who Will Be King
Apr 13, 2022
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#277 — How Does the War in Ukraine End?
Apr 3, 2022
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#276 — Defending the Global Order
Mar 22, 2022
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#275 — The Russian War in Ukraine
Mar 10, 2022
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Absolutely Mental Season 3
Mar 2, 2022
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Special Episode: Recipes for Future Plagues
Feb 28, 2022
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#274 — The Future of American Democracy
Feb 11, 2022
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#273 — Joe Rogan and the Ethics of Apology
Feb 7, 2022
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Vaccine Mandates, transgender athletes, billionaires… (AMA #19)
Jan 31, 2022
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#272 — On Disappointing My Audience
Jan 11, 2022
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#271 — Earning to Give
Dec 24, 2021
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#270 — What Have We Learned from the Pandemic?
Dec 14, 2021
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#269 — Deep Time
Dec 3, 2021
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#268 — The Limits of Self-Knowledge
Nov 24, 2021
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#267 — The Kingdom of Sleep
Nov 10, 2021
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#266 — The Limits of Pleasure
Nov 2, 2021
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#265 — The Religion of Anti-Racism
Oct 27, 2021
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#264 — Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)
Oct 21, 2021
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#263 — The Paradox of Death
Oct 18, 2021
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#262 — The Future of American Democracy
Oct 5, 2021
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#261 — Belief & Identity
Sep 30, 2021
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Absolutely Mental Season Two
Sep 24, 2021
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Ask Me Anything #18
Sep 20, 2021
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#260 — The Second Plane
Sep 9, 2021
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#259 — The Reckoning to Come
Sep 1, 2021
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#258 — The Fall of Afghanistan
Aug 23, 2021
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#257 — The State of the World
Aug 13, 2021
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Ask Me Anything #17
Aug 8, 2021
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#256 — A Contagion of Bad Ideas
Jul 23, 2021
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#255 — The Future of Intelligence
Jul 9, 2021
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#254 — The Mating Strategies of Earthlings
Jun 25, 2021
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#253 — Corporate Courage
Jun 17, 2021
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#252 — Are We Alone in the Universe?
Jun 10, 2021
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#251 — Corporate Cowardice
May 26, 2021
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#250 — Broken Conversations
May 21, 2021
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#249 — Distance & Arrival
May 14, 2021
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#248 — Order & Freedom
Apr 30, 2021
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Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse
Apr 24, 2021
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#247 — Constructing Minds
Apr 22, 2021
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#246 — Police Training & Police Misconduct
Apr 16, 2021
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#245 — Can We Talk About Scary Ideas?
Apr 12, 2021
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#244 — Food, Climate, and Pandemic Risk
Apr 6, 2021
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#243 — A Few Points of Confusion
Mar 28, 2021
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#242 — Psychedelics and the Self
Mar 23, 2021
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#241 — Final Thoughts on Free Will
Mar 12, 2021
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#240 — The Boundaries of Self
Mar 7, 2021
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#239 — Yet Another Call from Ricky Gervais
Feb 24, 2021
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#238 — How to Build a Universe
Feb 23, 2021
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#237 — Another Call from Ricky Gervais
Feb 16, 2021
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#236 — Rebooting New York City
Feb 11, 2021
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#235 — A Call from Ricky Gervais
Feb 10, 2021
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#234 — The Divided Mind
Feb 5, 2021
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#233 — The Groves of Misinformation
Feb 2, 2021
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#232 — Inequality and Revolution
Jan 27, 2021
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#231 — Crossing the Abyss
Jan 17, 2021
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#230 — An Insurrection of Lies
Jan 11, 2021
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#229 — A Few Thoughts for a New Year
Jan 6, 2021
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#228 — Doing Good
Dec 14, 2020
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#227 — Knowing the Mind
Dec 7, 2020
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Making Sense with Sam Harris | Trailer
Dec 7, 2020
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#226 — The Price of Distraction
Nov 27, 2020
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#225 — Republic of Lies
Nov 18, 2020
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#224 — The Key to Trump's Appeal
Nov 3, 2020
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#223 — A Conversation with Andrew Sullivan
Oct 30, 2020
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#222 — A Pandemic of Incompetence
Oct 28, 2020
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#221 — Success, Failure, & the Common Good
Oct 22, 2020
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#220 - The Information Apocalypse
Oct 17, 2020
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#219 — The Power of Compassion
Oct 8, 2020
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#218 — Welcome to the Cult Factory
Sep 24, 2020
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#217 — The New Religion of Anti-Racism
Sep 17, 2020
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#216 — A Conversation with Graeme Wood
Sep 3, 2020
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#215 — A Conversation with David Miliband
Aug 21, 2020
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#214 — A Conversation with Siddhartha Mukherjee
Aug 13, 2020
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#213 — The Worst Epidemic
Aug 4, 2020
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#212 — A Conversation with Kathryn Paige Harden
Jul 29, 2020
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#211 — The Nature of Human Nature
Jul 17, 2020
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#210 — The Logic of Doomsday
Jul 9, 2020
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#209 — A Good Life
Jul 3, 2020
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#208 — Existential Risk
Jun 23, 2020
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#207 — Can We Pull Back From The Brink?
Jun 13, 2020
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#206 — A Conversation with David Frum
May 26, 2020
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#205 — The Failure of Meritocracy
May 22, 2020
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#204 — A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt
May 18, 2020
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#203 — A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan
May 13, 2020
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#202 — A Conversation with Andrew Yang
May 11, 2020
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#201 — A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari
May 1, 2020
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#200 — Creatures of Habit
Apr 29, 2020
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#199 — A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan
Apr 24, 2020
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#198 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom
Apr 16, 2020
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#197 — A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan
Apr 12, 2020
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#196 — The Science of Happiness
Apr 10, 2020
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#195 — Social Cohesion is Everything
Apr 6, 2020
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#194 — The New Future of Work
Mar 25, 2020
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#193 — Meditation in an Emergency
Mar 20, 2020
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#192 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom
Mar 17, 2020
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#191 — Early Thoughts on a Pandemic
Mar 11, 2020
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#190 — How Should We Respond to Coronavirus?
Mar 10, 2020
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#189 — Wealth & Happiness
Mar 2, 2020
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#188 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom
Feb 28, 2020
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#187 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom
Feb 21, 2020
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#186 — The Bomb
Feb 18, 2020
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#185 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom
Feb 7, 2020
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#184 — The Conversational Nature of Reality
Feb 3, 2020
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#183 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom
Jan 28, 2020
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#182 — Unlearning Race
Jan 23, 2020
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#181 — The Illusory Self
Jan 13, 2020
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#180 — Sex & Power
Dec 30, 2019
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#179 — The Unquiet Mind
Dec 17, 2019
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#178 — The Reality Illusion
Dec 11, 2019
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#177 — Psychedelic Science
Dec 2, 2019
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#176 — Knowledge & Redemption
Nov 23, 2019
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#175 — Leaving the Faith
Nov 11, 2019
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#174 — Life & Mind
Nov 4, 2019
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#173 — Anti-Semitism and Its Discontents
Oct 28, 2019
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#172 — Among the Deplorables
Oct 21, 2019
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#171 — Escaping a Christian Cult
Oct 8, 2019
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#170 — The Great Uncoupling
Oct 2, 2019
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#169 — Omens of a Race War
Sep 20, 2019
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#168 — Mind, Space, & Motion
Sep 11, 2019
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#167 — A Few Thoughts on White Supremacy
Aug 26, 2019
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#166 — The Plague Years
Aug 21, 2019
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#165 — Journey into Wokeness
Aug 14, 2019
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#164 — Cause & Effect
Aug 5, 2019
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#163 — Ricky Gervais
Jul 12, 2019
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#162 — Medical Intelligence
Jul 3, 2019
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#161 — Rise & Fall
Jun 24, 2019
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#160 — The Revenge of History
Jun 17, 2019
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#159 — Conscious
Jun 6, 2019
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#158 — Understanding Humans in the Wild
May 30, 2019
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#157 — What Does the Mueller Report Really Say?
May 20, 2019
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#156 — The Evolution of Culture
May 13, 2019
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#155 — Mental Models
Apr 29, 2019
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#154 — What Do Jihadists Really Want? (2019)
Apr 25, 2019
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#153 — Possible Minds
Apr 15, 2019
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#152 — The Trouble with Facebook
Mar 27, 2019
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#151 — Will We Destroy the Future?
Mar 18, 2019
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#150 — The Map of Misunderstanding
Mar 12, 2019
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#149 — The Problem of Addiction
Mar 4, 2019
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#148 — Jack Dorsey
Feb 5, 2019
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#147 — Stephen Fry
Jan 28, 2019
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#146 — Digital Capitalism
Jan 16, 2019
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#145 — The Information War
Jan 2, 2019
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The Drive Interview with Peter Attia
Dec 20, 2018
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#144 — Conquering Hate
Dec 7, 2018
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#143 — The Keys to the Mind
Nov 21, 2018
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#142 — Addiction, Depression, and a Meaningful Life
Nov 13, 2018
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#141— Is #MeToo Going Too Far?
Nov 5, 2018
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The TED Interview
Oct 30, 2018
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#140 — Burning Down the Fourth Estate
Oct 17, 2018
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#139 — Sacred & Profane
Oct 3, 2018
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Introducing Waking Up
Sep 25, 2018
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#138 — The Edge of Humanity
Sep 20, 2018
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#137 — Safe Space
Sep 10, 2018
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#136 — Digital Humanism
Aug 30, 2018
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#135 — Navigating Sex and Gender
Aug 20, 2018
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#134 — Beyond the Politics of Race
Jul 29, 2018
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#133 — Globalism on the Brink
Jul 18, 2018
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#132 — Freeing the Hostages
Jul 9, 2018
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#131 — Dictators, Immigration, #MeToo, and Other Imponderables
Jul 3, 2018
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#130 — Universal Basic Income
Jun 19, 2018
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#129 — An Insider's View of Medicine
Jun 12, 2018
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#128 — Transformations of Mind
Jun 4, 2018
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#127 — Freedom from the Known
May 28, 2018
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#126 — In Defense of Honor
May 8, 2018
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#125 — What Is Christianity?
May 1, 2018
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#124 — In Search of Reality
Apr 21, 2018
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#123 — Identity & Honesty
Apr 9, 2018
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#122 — Extreme Housekeeping Edition
Apr 3, 2018
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#121 — White Power
Mar 25, 2018
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#120 — What Is and What Matters
Mar 19, 2018
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#119 — Hidden Motives
Mar 12, 2018
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# 118 — The View from Trumpistan
Feb 27, 2018
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#117 — Networks, Power, and Chaos
Feb 19, 2018
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The Russell Brand Interview
Feb 9, 2018
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#116 — AI: Racing Toward the Brink
Feb 6, 2018
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#115 — Sam Harris, Lawrence Krauss, and Matt Dillahunty (1)
Jan 29, 2018
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#114 — Politics and Sanity
Jan 22, 2018
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#113 — Consciousness and the Self
Jan 9, 2018
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#112 — The Intellectual Dark Web
Jan 2, 2018
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#111 — The Science of Meditation
Dec 28, 2017
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#110 — The Change Artist
Dec 23, 2017
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#109— Biology and Culture
Dec 19, 2017
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#108 — Defending the Experts
Dec 14, 2017
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#107 — Is Life Actually Worth Living?
Dec 6, 2017
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#106 — Humanity 2.0
Nov 29, 2017
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#105 — Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Matt Dillahunty
Nov 20, 2017
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#104 — The Lessons of Death
Nov 15, 2017
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#103 — American Fantasies
Nov 9, 2017
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#102 — Is Buddhism True?
Oct 30, 2017
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#101 — Defending the Republic
Oct 17, 2017
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#100 — Facing the Crowd
Oct 9, 2017
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The "After On" Interview
Oct 6, 2017
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#99 — What Happened to Liberalism?
Sep 28, 2017
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#98 — Into the Dark Land
Sep 21, 2017
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#97 — The Impossible War
Sep 15, 2017
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#96 — The Nature of Consciousness
Sep 10, 2017
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#95 — What You Need to Know About Climate Change
Sep 5, 2017
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#94 — Frontiers of Intelligence
Aug 29, 2017
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#93 — Identity & Terror
Aug 21, 2017
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#92 — The Limits of Persuasion
Aug 16, 2017
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#91 — The Biology of Good and Evil
Aug 9, 2017
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#90 — Living With Violence
Aug 6, 2017
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#89 — On Becoming a Better Person
Jul 25, 2017
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#88 — Must We Accept a Nuclear North Korea?
Jul 21, 2017
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#87 — Triggered
Jul 19, 2017
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#86 — From Cells to Cities
Jul 14, 2017
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#85 — Is this the End of Europe?
Jul 7, 2017
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#84 — Landscapes of Mind
Jul 1, 2017
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#83 — The Politics of Emergency
Jun 23, 2017
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#82 — The End of the World According to ISIS
Jun 15, 2017
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#81 — Leaving Islam
Jun 9, 2017
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#80 — The Unraveling
Jun 4, 2017
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#79 — The Road to Tyranny
May 29, 2017
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#78 — Persuasion and Control
May 26, 2017
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#77 — The Moral Complexity of Genetics
May 22, 2017
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#76 — The Path to Impeachment
May 18, 2017
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#75 — Ask Me Anything 7
May 12, 2017
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#74 — What Should We Eat?
May 6, 2017
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#73 — Forbidden Knowledge
Apr 23, 2017
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#72 — Privacy and Security
Apr 17, 2017
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#71 — What Is Technology Doing to Us?
Apr 14, 2017
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#70 — Beauty and Terror
Apr 10, 2017
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#69 — The Russia Connection
Mar 24, 2017
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#68 — Reality and the Imagination
Mar 19, 2017
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#67 — Meaning and Chaos
Mar 13, 2017
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#66 — Living with Robots
Mar 1, 2017
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#65 — We're All Cucks Now
Feb 20, 2017
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#64 — Ask Me Anything 6
Feb 16, 2017
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#63 — Why Meditate?
Jan 31, 2017
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#62 — What is True?
Jan 21, 2017
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#61 — The Power of Belief
Jan 15, 2017
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#60 — An Evening with Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris (2)
Jan 10, 2017
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#59 — Friend & Foe
Jan 5, 2017
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#58 — The Putin Question
Dec 27, 2016
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#57 — An Evening with Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris (1)
Dec 19, 2016
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#56 — Abusing Dolores
Dec 12, 2016
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#55 — Islamism vs Secularism
Dec 6, 2016
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#54 — Trumping The World
Dec 1, 2016
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#53 — The Dawn of Artificial Intelligence
Nov 24, 2016
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#52 — Finding Our Way in the Cosmos
Nov 16, 2016
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#51 — The Most Powerful Clown
Nov 10, 2016
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#50 — The Borders of Tolerance
Nov 2, 2016
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#49 — The Lesser Evil
Oct 26, 2016
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#48 — What Is Moral Progress?
Oct 21, 2016
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#47 — The Frontiers of Political Correctness
Oct 6, 2016
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#46 — The End of Faith Sessions 3
Sep 28, 2016
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#45 — Ask Me Anything 5
Sep 13, 2016
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#44 — Being Good and Doing Good
Aug 29, 2016
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#43 — What Do Jihadists Really Want?
Aug 17, 2016
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#42 — Racism and Violence in America
Aug 9, 2016
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#41 — Faith in Reason
Aug 1, 2016
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#40 — Complexity & Stupidity
Jul 12, 2016
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#39 — Free Will Revisited
Jul 4, 2016
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#38 — The End of Faith Sessions 2
Jun 15, 2016
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#37 — Thinking in Public
May 31, 2016
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#36 — What Makes Us Safer?
May 2, 2016
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#35 — The End Of Faith Sessions 1
Apr 25, 2016
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#34 — The Light of the Mind
Apr 18, 2016
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#33 — Ask Me Anything 4
Mar 26, 2016
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#32 — The Best Podcast Ever
Mar 12, 2016
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#31 — Evolving Minds
Mar 9, 2016
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#30 — Inside the Crucible
Mar 6, 2016
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#29 — Throw Open the Gates
Feb 24, 2016
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#28 — Meat Without Misery
Feb 20, 2016
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#27 — Ask Me Anything 3
Feb 13, 2016
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#26 — The Logic of Violence
Jan 19, 2016
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#25 — Behind the Gun
Jan 14, 2016
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#24 — Ask Me Anything 2
Jan 4, 2016
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#23 — Islam and the Future of Tolerance (Audiobook Excerpts)
Dec 21, 2015
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#22 — Surviving the Cosmos
Dec 16, 2015
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#21 — On the Maintenance of Civilization
Nov 22, 2015
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#20 — Still Sleepwalking Toward Armageddon
Nov 15, 2015
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#19 — The Riddle Of The Gun (Revisited)
Oct 8, 2015
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#18 — The Multiverse & You (& You & You & You...)
Sep 23, 2015
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#17 — What I Really Think About Profiling
Sep 16, 2015
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#16 — The Dark Side
Aug 26, 2015
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#15 — Questions Along the Path
Aug 11, 2015
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#14 — The Virtues of Cold Blood
Jul 29, 2015
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#13 — The Moral Gaze
Jul 21, 2015
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#12 — Leaving the Church
Jul 3, 2015
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#11 — Shouldering the Burden of History
Jun 27, 2015
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#10 — Faith vs. Fact
May 19, 2015
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