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2025

2025 - December

01 Dec
Mon

#446 — How to Do the Most Good

00:21:34

2025 - November

26 Nov
Wed

#445 — More From Sam: Marjorie Taylor Greene, Billionaires, Thanksgiving Political Debates, & Rapid Fire Questions

00:18:28
17 Nov
Mon

#444 — America's Zombie Democracy

00:20:39
10 Nov
Mon

#443 — What Is Christian Nationalism?

00:41:10
03 Nov
Mon

#442 — More From Sam: Public Speaking, Nuclear War, & Christian Nationalism

00:17:30

2025 - October

31 Oct
Fri

#441 — The Threat of Civil War

00:21:38
24 Oct
Fri

#440 — A World in Crisis

00:24:24
14 Oct
Tue

#439 — How to Lose a Democracy

00:22:35
11 Oct
Sat

#438 — “More From Sam”: Israel-Hamas Deal, Qatari Air Force Base, Trump, Charlie Kirk, Ezra Klein, & Rapid Fire Questions

00:27:29
06 Oct
Mon

#437 — Two Years Since 10/7

00:19:53
03 Oct
Fri

#436 — A Crisis of Trust

00:25:01
02 Oct
Thu

#435 — The Last Invention

00:36:44

2025 - September

16 Sep
Tue

#434 — Can We Survive AI?

00:36:11
06 Sep
Sat

#433 — How Did We Get Here?

00:21:51

2025 - August

27 Aug
Wed

#432 — The Undoing of America

00:25:38
25 Aug
Mon

#431 — What Is Happening on College Campuses?

00:23:08
22 Aug
Fri

#430 — “More From Sam”: Trump, Gavin Newsom, Class War, DOGE, & Rapid Fire Questions

00:15:01
11 Aug
Mon

#429 — The New World Order

00:26:36
07 Aug
Thu

#428 — Political Extremism

00:26:45

2025 - July

25 Jul
Fri

#427 — AI Friends & Enemies

00:23:13
23 Jul
Wed

#426 — How Bad Is It?

00:27:22
21 Jul
Mon

#425 — Are We Prepared for the Next Pandemic?

00:26:59
16 Jul
Wed

#424 — "More From Sam": Nazi Grok, ICE, Epstein, Social Media, Rapid Fire Questions

00:26:34
08 Jul
Tue

#423 — “More From Sam”: Democracy, Populism, Wealth Inequality, News-Induced Anxiety, & Rapid Fire Questions

00:19:13

2025 - June

19 Jun
Thu

#422 — Zionism & Jihadism

02:03:52
17 Jun
Tue

#421 — “More From Sam”: Political Violence, Iran, Deportations, Protests, & Rapid Fire Questions

00:17:42
12 Jun
Thu

#420 — Countdown to Superintelligence

00:20:14
06 Jun
Fri

#419 — "More From Sam": Elon vs. Trump, Religion, Jordan Peterson, & Rapid Fire Questions

00:14:51
02 Jun
Mon

#418 — A Future for Democrats

00:45:22

2025 - May

28 May
Wed

#417 — Philosophy for Life

00:22:15
23 May
Fri

#416 — “More From Sam”: Biden's Big Lie, Review of Tapper Interview, Trump, & a Case Against Israel's Actions in Gaza

00:19:30
21 May
Wed

#415 — The Cover-Up

00:23:59
12 May
Mon

#414 — Strange Truths

00:22:15
06 May
Tue

#413 — “More From Sam”: Trump & Israel, Corruption, Free Speech Violations, the Democrats, & Ezra Klein

00:26:20
02 May
Fri

#412 — Better Things & Better People

00:26:32

2025 - April

25 Apr
Fri

#411 — The Victimhood Pandemic

00:30:52
20 Apr
Sun

#410 — The Whole Catastrophe

01:07:24
16 Apr
Wed

#409 — "More From Sam": Religion, Deportations, Douglas Murray vs. Rogan, & Bill Maher's Dinner with Trump

00:48:35
14 Apr
Mon

#408 — Finding Equanimity in Chaos

01:49:44
09 Apr
Wed

#407 — Can We Ever Return to Normal Politics?

00:19:28
07 Apr
Mon

#406 — The Legacy of Christianity

00:25:07
04 Apr
Fri

#405 — "More From Sam": Tariffs, SignalGate, Trump, Elon, Douglas Murray, & Joe Rogan

00:19:59

2025 - March

25 Mar
Tue

#404 — What If Consciousness Is Fundamental?

02:20:13
10 Mar
Mon

#403 — Sanity Check on Trump 2.0

00:36:52

2025 - February

28 Feb
Fri

#402 — The Geopolitics of Trump 2.0

00:32:21
18 Feb
Tue

#401 — Christian Nationalism and the New Right

00:31:58
06 Feb
Thu

#400 — The Politics of Information

00:36:28

2025 - January

27 Jan
Mon

#399 — The Politics of Catastrophe

01:15:30
21 Jan
Tue

398 — Thoughts Without a Thinker

00:24:32
01 Jan
Wed

#397 — A New Year's Message from Sam

00:17:42

2024

2024 - December

20 Dec
Fri

#396 — The Way Forward

00:32:28
11 Dec
Wed

#395 — Intellectual Authority and Its Discontents

00:31:09
03 Dec
Tue

#394 — Bringing Back the Mammoth

00:22:50

2024 - November

26 Nov
Tue

#393 — Is History Repeating Itself?

00:37:55
19 Nov
Tue

#392 — Technology & Culture

00:52:39
11 Nov
Mon

#391 — The Reckoning

00:39:31
01 Nov
Fri

#390 — Final Thoughts on the 2024 Presidential Election

01:13:39

2024 - October

25 Oct
Fri

#389 — The Politics of Risk

00:33:33
21 Oct
Mon

#388 — What Is Life?

00:46:39
15 Oct
Tue

#387 — Politics & Power

00:44:39
07 Oct
Mon

#386 — Information & Social Order

00:47:06

2024 - September

30 Sep
Mon

#385 — AI Utopia

00:38:56
23 Sep
Mon

#384 — Stress Testing Our Democracy

00:40:18
17 Sep
Tue

#383 — Where Are the Grown-Ups?

00:23:52
06 Sep
Fri

#382 — The Eye of Nature

00:39:11

2024 - August

26 Aug
Mon

#381 — Delusions, Right and Left

00:46:27
23 Aug
Fri

#380 — The Roots of Attention

00:45:09
12 Aug
Mon

#379 — Regulating Artificial Intelligence

00:34:02
02 Aug
Fri

#378 — Digital Delusions

00:56:16

2024 - July

26 Jul
Fri

#377 — The Future of Psychedelic Medicine 2

01:15:59
19 Jul
Fri

#376 — How Democracies Fail

01:07:21
16 Jul
Tue

#375 — On the Attempted Assassination of President Trump

00:13:44
09 Jul
Tue

#374 — Consciousness and the Physical World

00:41:47
02 Jul
Tue

#373 — Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism

01:41:21

2024 - June

24 Jun
Mon

#372 — Life & Work

00:41:13
14 Jun
Fri

#371 — What the Hell Is Happening?

00:43:33
06 Jun
Thu

#370 — Gender Apartheid and the Future of Iran

01:20:49

2024 - May

30 May
Thu

#369 — Escaping Death

00:33:48
21 May
Tue

#368 — Freedom & Censorship

00:42:27
13 May
Mon

#367 — Campus Protests, Antisemitism, and Western Values

00:53:28
07 May
Tue

#366 — Urban Warfare 2.0

01:39:16
01 May
Wed

#365 — Reality Check

00:51:30

2024 - April

23 Apr
Tue

#364 — Facts & Values

00:28:05
15 Apr
Mon

#363 — Knowledge Work

00:51:14
09 Apr
Tue

#362 — Six Months of War

00:54:12
01 Apr
Mon

#361 — Sam Bankman-Fried & Effective Altruism

01:25:04

2024 - March

27 Mar
Wed

#360 — We Really Don’t Have Free Will?

00:38:47
19 Mar
Tue

#359 — Getting Used to It

00:31:07
11 Mar
Mon

#358 — The War in Ukraine

00:35:52
04 Mar
Mon

#357 — America & World Order

00:32:08

2024 - February

28 Feb
Wed

#356 — Islam & Freedom

00:28:52
21 Feb
Wed

#355 — A Falling World

00:48:16
16 Feb
Fri

#354 — Is Moral Progress a Fantasy?

00:40:10
11 Feb
Sun

#353 — Race & Reason

00:55:57
04 Feb
Sun

#352 — Hubris & Chaos

00:29:37

2024 - January

30 Jan
Tue

#351 — 5 Myths about Israel and the War in Gaza

00:42:34
23 Jan
Tue

#350 — Sharing Reality

00:42:15
16 Jan
Tue

#349 — Generosity, Cynicism, and the Future of Doing Good

01:02:48
05 Jan
Fri

#348 — The Politics of Antisemitism

00:39:54
02 Jan
Tue

#347 — Finding Sanity in 2024

00:08:37

2023

2023 - December

22 Dec
Fri

#346 — The Best Kept Secret In History?

00:39:20
18 Dec
Mon

#345 — Resilience

02:04:07
12 Dec
Tue

#344 — The War in Gaza

00:58:36
06 Dec
Wed

#343 — What Is "Islamophobia"?

00:11:28

2023 - November

27 Nov
Mon

#342 — Animal Minds & Moral Truths

01:01:56
16 Nov
Thu

#341 — Gaza & Global Order

00:54:29
07 Nov
Tue

#340 — The Bright Line Between Good and Evil

00:59:07
03 Nov
Fri

#339 — The Infernal Logic of Jihad

00:50:29

2023 - October

12 Oct
Thu

#338 — The Sin of Moral Equivalence

00:13:49
04 Oct
Wed

#337 — The Future of Psychedelic Medicine

01:41:30

2023 - September

27 Sep
Wed

#336 — The Roots of Identity Politics

01:01:58
22 Sep
Fri

#335 — A Postmortem on My Response to Covid

01:10:24
18 Sep
Mon

#334 — The Low-Trust Society

00:49:15
05 Sep
Tue

#333 — Sanity Check on Climate Change

01:07:19

2023 - August

28 Aug
Mon

#332 — Can We Contain Artificial Intelligence?

00:55:02
20 Aug
Sun

#331 — A Golden Age for Assholes

00:09:04
16 Aug
Wed

#330 — The Doomsday Machine

01:35:24
12 Aug
Sat

#329 — What Happened to the Republican Party?

01:00:26
02 Aug
Wed

#328 — Health & Longevity

01:02:39

2023 - July

21 Jul
Fri

#327 — Transformative Experiences

00:49:11
06 Jul
Thu

#326 — AI & Information Integrity

00:48:56
03 Jul
Mon

#325 — A Few Thoughts About RFK Jr.

00:26:26

2023 - June

28 Jun
Wed

#324 — Debating the Future of AI

00:53:56
22 Jun
Thu

#323 — Science & Survival

00:45:54
18 Jun
Sun

Making Sense of Meditation | Episode 10 of The Essential Sam Harris

00:39:20
13 Jun
Tue

#322 — Predicting Reality

00:53:49
05 Jun
Mon

#321 — Reckoning with Parfit

00:51:59

2023 - May

26 May
Fri

Making Sense of Death | Episode 9 of The Essential Sam Harris

00:40:45
22 May
Mon

#320 — Constructing Self and World

00:51:05
15 May
Mon

#319 — The Digital Multiverse

00:36:17
05 May
Fri

Making Sense of Social Media and the Information Landscape | Episode 8 of The Essential Sam Harris

00:44:37
01 May
Mon

#318 — Physics & Philosophy

00:54:01

2023 - April

20 Apr
Thu

#317 — What Do We Know About Our Minds?

01:07:33
14 Apr
Fri

#316 — Self-Defense: Reality and Fantasy

00:54:37
12 Apr
Wed

Making Sense of Existential Threat and Nuclear War | Episode 7 of The Essential Sam Harris

00:49:16
07 Apr
Fri

#315 — The Great Derangement

00:59:44

2023 - March

31 Mar
Fri

#314 — The Cancellation of J.K. Rowling

00:53:56
25 Mar
Sat

#313 — Apocalypse

00:34:44
15 Mar
Wed

Making Sense of Belief and Unbelief | Episode 6 of The Essential Sam Harris

01:02:47
07 Mar
Tue

#312 — The Trouble with AI

01:26:49

2023 - February

20 Feb
Mon

#311 — Did SARS-CoV-2 Escape from a Lab?

00:58:04
14 Feb
Tue

Making Sense of Free Will | Episode 5 of The Essential Sam Harris

00:43:55
01 Feb
Wed

#310 — Social Media & Public Trust

01:08:31

2023 - January

26 Jan
Thu

Making Sense of Encounters With Violence | Episode 4 of The Essential Sam Harris

00:35:57
20 Jan
Fri

#309 — Vulnerability, Politics, and Moral Worth

00:45:03
11 Jan
Wed

#308 — The Long Game

00:33:48
05 Jan
Thu

Making Sense of Foundations of Morality | Episode 3 of The Essential Sam Harris

00:44:15

2022

2022 - December

30 Dec
Fri

#307 — Twitter, Elon, & Free Speech

00:27:19
15 Dec
Thu

Making Sense of Consciousness | Episode 2 of The Essential Sam Harris

00:34:37
13 Dec
Tue

#306 — Psychedelics & Mortality

01:45:07
08 Dec
Thu

#305 — Moral Knowledge

01:07:06

2022 - November

28 Nov
Mon

#304 — Why I Left Twitter

01:09:32
22 Nov
Tue

Making Sense of Artificial Intelligence | Episode 1 of The Essential Sam Harris

01:07:30
15 Nov
Tue

#303 — The Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried

00:20:13
11 Nov
Fri

#302 — Science & Civilization

00:49:37

2022 - October

25 Oct
Tue

#301 — The Politics of Unreality: Ukraine and Nuclear Risk

01:00:40
12 Oct
Wed

#300 — A Tale of Cancellation

03:08:35
03 Oct
Mon

#299 — Steps in the Right Direction

00:40:07

2022 - September

29 Sep
Thu

#298 — Leaving the Faith (Rebroadcast)

01:20:38
23 Sep
Fri

#297 — Preparing for the End

01:04:22
13 Sep
Tue

#296 — Repairing Our Country

00:42:25
09 Sep
Fri

#295 — Philosophy and the Good Life

00:44:01

2022 - August

31 Aug
Wed

#294 — Status Games

00:40:10
25 Aug
Thu

#293 — What I Really Think About Trump and Media Bias

00:43:20
14 Aug
Sun

#292 — How Much Does the Future Matter?

02:00:17

2022 - July

28 Jul
Thu

#291 — Where is Happiness?

01:04:11
21 Jul
Thu

#290 — What Went Wrong?

00:48:12
18 Jul
Mon

#289 — Time Management for Mortals

00:38:23
14 Jul
Thu

#288 — The End of Global Order

00:53:57
05 Jul
Tue

#287 — Why Wealth Matters

00:49:59

2022 - June

28 Jun
Tue

#286 — The Paradox of Psychedelics

00:41:12
24 Jun
Fri

#285 — American Division

00:46:31
07 Jun
Tue

#284 — The Funny Business

00:40:11

2022 - May

30 May
Mon

#283 — Gun Violence in America

01:34:21
23 May
Mon

#282 — Do You Really Have a Self?

00:53:58
02 May
Mon

#281 — Western Culture and Its Discontents

01:11:28

2022 - April

22 Apr
Fri

#280 — The Future of Artificial Intelligence

00:37:47
18 Apr
Mon

#279 — The Rules of the Stage

00:34:58
13 Apr
Wed

#278 — The Man Who Will Be King

00:37:23
03 Apr
Sun

#277 — How Does the War in Ukraine End?

00:37:46

2022 - March

22 Mar
Tue

#276 — Defending the Global Order

00:35:58
10 Mar
Thu

#275 — The Russian War in Ukraine

00:36:57
02 Mar
Wed

Absolutely Mental Season 3

00:48:59

2022 - February

28 Feb
Mon

Special Episode: Recipes for Future Plagues

01:57:19
11 Feb
Fri

#274 — The Future of American Democracy

02:20:08
07 Feb
Mon

#273 — Joe Rogan and the Ethics of Apology

00:20:06

2022 - January

31 Jan
Mon

Vaccine Mandates, transgender athletes, billionaires… (AMA #19)

00:28:25
11 Jan
Tue

#272 — On Disappointing My Audience

00:46:26

2021

2021 - December

24 Dec
Fri

#271 — Earning to Give

01:15:11
14 Dec
Tue

#270 — What Have We Learned from the Pandemic?

02:51:28
03 Dec
Fri

#269 — Deep Time

00:39:43

2021 - November

24 Nov
Wed

#268 — The Limits of Self-Knowledge

00:36:08
10 Nov
Wed

#267 — The Kingdom of Sleep

00:49:28
02 Nov
Tue

#266 — The Limits of Pleasure

00:46:59

2021 - October

27 Oct
Wed

#265 — The Religion of Anti-Racism

00:34:57
21 Oct
Thu

#264 — Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

00:47:58
18 Oct
Mon

#263 — The Paradox of Death

00:17:44
05 Oct
Tue

#262 — The Future of American Democracy

00:32:46

2021 - September

30 Sep
Thu

#261 — Belief & Identity

00:40:07
24 Sep
Fri

Absolutely Mental Season Two

00:16:10
20 Sep
Mon

Ask Me Anything #18

00:27:58
09 Sep
Thu

#260 — The Second Plane

00:16:05
01 Sep
Wed

#259 — The Reckoning to Come

01:12:47

2021 - August

23 Aug
Mon

#258 — The Fall of Afghanistan

00:46:38
13 Aug
Fri

#257 — The State of the World

01:00:57
08 Aug
Sun

Ask Me Anything #17

00:23:57

2021 - July

23 Jul
Fri

#256 — A Contagion of Bad Ideas

01:26:41
09 Jul
Fri

#255 — The Future of Intelligence

00:57:47

2021 - June

25 Jun
Fri

#254 — The Mating Strategies of Earthlings

00:49:08
17 Jun
Thu

#253 — Corporate Courage

00:44:47
10 Jun
Thu

#252 — Are We Alone in the Universe?

00:51:51

2021 - May

26 May
Wed

#251 — Corporate Cowardice

00:39:00
21 May
Fri

#250 — Broken Conversations

00:45:08
14 May
Fri

#249 — Distance & Arrival

00:32:47

2021 - April

30 Apr
Fri

#248 — Order & Freedom

00:38:22
24 Apr
Sat

Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse

03:41:36
22 Apr
Thu

#247 — Constructing Minds

01:07:25
16 Apr
Fri

#246 — Police Training & Police Misconduct

01:41:50
12 Apr
Mon

#245 — Can We Talk About Scary Ideas?

00:42:32
06 Apr
Tue

#244 — Food, Climate, and Pandemic Risk

01:12:48

2021 - March

28 Mar
Sun

#243 — A Few Points of Confusion

00:09:22
23 Mar
Tue

#242 — Psychedelics and the Self

01:03:25
12 Mar
Fri

#241 — Final Thoughts on Free Will

00:43:39
07 Mar
Sun

#240 — The Boundaries of Self

00:43:41

2021 - February

24 Feb
Wed

#239 — Yet Another Call from Ricky Gervais

00:21:33
23 Feb
Tue

#238 — How to Build a Universe

00:58:59
16 Feb
Tue

#237 — Another Call from Ricky Gervais

00:42:20
11 Feb
Thu

#236 — Rebooting New York City

00:48:05
10 Feb
Wed

#235 — A Call from Ricky Gervais

00:29:14
05 Feb
Fri

#234 — The Divided Mind

00:54:39
02 Feb
Tue

#233 — The Groves of Misinformation

00:50:40

2021 - January

27 Jan
Wed

#232 — Inequality and Revolution

00:41:45
17 Jan
Sun

#231 — Crossing the Abyss

01:13:56
11 Jan
Mon

#230 — An Insurrection of Lies

00:41:02
06 Jan
Wed

#229 — A Few Thoughts for a New Year

00:29:25

2020

2020 - December

14 Dec
Mon

#228 — Doing Good

02:14:36
07 Dec
Mon

Making Sense with Sam Harris

00:01:32
07 Dec
Mon

#227 — Knowing the Mind

00:46:37

2020 - November

27 Nov
Fri

#226 — The Price of Distraction

00:44:06
18 Nov
Wed

#225 — Republic of Lies

00:31:18
03 Nov
Tue

#224 — The Key to Trump's Appeal

00:08:03

2020 - October

30 Oct
Fri

#223 — A Conversation with Andrew Sullivan

01:35:25
28 Oct
Wed

#222 — A Pandemic of Incompetence

01:04:52
22 Oct
Thu

#221 — Success, Failure, & the Common Good

00:46:36
17 Oct
Sat

#220 - The Information Apocalypse

00:47:43
08 Oct
Thu

#219 — The Power of Compassion

00:48:06

2020 - September

24 Sep
Thu

#218 — Welcome to the Cult Factory

00:47:10
17 Sep
Thu

#217 — The New Religion of Anti-Racism

01:11:41
03 Sep
Thu

#216 — A Conversation with Graeme Wood

00:50:38

2020 - August

21 Aug
Fri

#215 — A Conversation with David Miliband

00:49:15
13 Aug
Thu

#214 — A Conversation with Siddhartha Mukherjee

00:46:12
04 Aug
Tue

#213 — The Worst Epidemic

02:14:01

2020 - July

29 Jul
Wed

#212 — A Conversation with Kathryn Paige Harden

00:48:25
17 Jul
Fri

#211 — The Nature of Human Nature

01:11:49
09 Jul
Thu

#210 — The Logic of Doomsday

01:45:59
03 Jul
Fri

#209 — A Good Life

00:57:23

2020 - June

23 Jun
Tue

#208 — Existential Risk

01:04:40
13 Jun
Sat

#207 — Can We Pull Back From The Brink?

01:52:38

2020 - May

26 May
Tue

#206 — A Conversation with David Frum

00:44:19
22 May
Fri

#205 — The Failure of Meritocracy

00:58:49
18 May
Mon

#204 — A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt

01:05:31
13 May
Wed

#203 — A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan

01:07:32
11 May
Mon

#202 — A Conversation with Andrew Yang

00:37:50
01 May
Fri

#201 — A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari

01:08:48

2020 - April

29 Apr
Wed

#200 — Creatures of Habit

00:32:21
24 Apr
Fri

#199 — A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan

00:37:44
16 Apr
Thu

#198 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

00:58:40
12 Apr
Sun

#197 — A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan

00:30:28
10 Apr
Fri

#196 — The Science of Happiness

00:59:35
06 Apr
Mon

#195 — Social Cohesion is Everything

01:08:05

2020 - March

25 Mar
Wed

#194 — The New Future of Work

01:44:48
20 Mar
Fri

#193 — Meditation in an Emergency

00:21:28
17 Mar
Tue

#192 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

00:37:32
11 Mar
Wed

#191 — Early Thoughts on a Pandemic

01:06:20
10 Mar
Tue

#190 — How Should We Respond to Coronavirus?

01:18:46
02 Mar
Mon

#189 — Wealth & Happiness

01:10:41

2020 - February

28 Feb
Fri

#188 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

00:31:39
21 Feb
Fri

#187 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

00:27:04
18 Feb
Tue

#186 — The Bomb

01:19:19
07 Feb
Fri

#185 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

00:29:46
03 Feb
Mon

#184 — The Conversational Nature of Reality

00:28:38

2020 - January

28 Jan
Tue

#183 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

00:26:50
23 Jan
Thu

#182 — Unlearning Race

00:39:16
13 Jan
Mon

#181 — The Illusory Self

01:32:11

2019

2019 - December

30 Dec
Mon

#180 — Sex & Power

00:47:38
17 Dec
Tue

#179 — The Unquiet Mind

00:33:20
11 Dec
Wed

#178 — The Reality Illusion

01:06:36
02 Dec
Mon

#177 — Psychedelic Science

01:26:36

2019 - November

23 Nov
Sat

#176 — Knowledge & Redemption

01:03:59
11 Nov
Mon

#175 — Leaving the Faith

00:36:21
04 Nov
Mon

#174 — Life & Mind

00:48:35

2019 - October

28 Oct
Mon

#173 — Anti-Semitism and Its Discontents

00:27:45
21 Oct
Mon

#172 — Among the Deplorables

00:51:14
08 Oct
Tue

#171 — Escaping a Christian Cult

00:41:47
02 Oct
Wed

#170 — The Great Uncoupling

00:47:38

2019 - September

20 Sep
Fri

#169 — Omens of a Race War

00:43:21
11 Sep
Wed

#168 — Mind, Space, & Motion

00:36:51

2019 - August

26 Aug
Mon

#167 — A Few Thoughts on White Supremacy

00:16:11
21 Aug
Wed

#166 — The Plague Years

00:25:19
14 Aug
Wed

#165 — Journey into Wokeness

01:01:18
05 Aug
Mon

#164 — Cause & Effect

00:49:36

2019 - July

12 Jul
Fri

#163 — Ricky Gervais

00:55:10
03 Jul
Wed

#162 — Medical Intelligence

00:35:53

2019 - June

24 Jun
Mon

#161 — Rise & Fall

00:43:00
17 Jun
Mon

#160 — The Revenge of History

00:57:45
06 Jun
Thu

#159 — Conscious

00:30:43

2019 - May

30 May
Thu

#158 — Understanding Humans in the Wild

00:58:25
20 May
Mon

#157 — What Does the Mueller Report Really Say?

00:35:02
13 May
Mon

#156 — The Evolution of Culture

00:40:15

2019 - April

29 Apr
Mon

#155 — Mental Models

00:48:48
25 Apr
Thu

#154 — What Do Jihadists Really Want? (2019)

00:54:02
15 Apr
Mon

#153 — Possible Minds

01:38:23

2019 - March

27 Mar
Wed

#152 — The Trouble with Facebook

00:49:44
18 Mar
Mon

#151 — Will We Destroy the Future?

00:32:39
12 Mar
Tue

#150 — The Map of Misunderstanding

00:49:37
04 Mar
Mon

#149 — The Problem of Addiction

00:40:18

2019 - February

05 Feb
Tue

#148 — Jack Dorsey

00:33:37

2019 - January

28 Jan
Mon

#147 — Stephen Fry

00:45:17
16 Jan
Wed

#146 — Digital Capitalism

00:44:18
02 Jan
Wed

#145 — The Information War

00:31:18

2018

2018 - December

20 Dec
Thu

The Drive Interview with Peter Attia

02:54:26
07 Dec
Fri

#144 — Conquering Hate

01:09:04

2018 - November

21 Nov
Wed

#143 — The Keys to the Mind

00:42:11
13 Nov
Tue

#142 — Addiction, Depression, and a Meaningful Life

00:47:16
05 Nov
Mon

#141— Is #MeToo Going Too Far?

00:39:36

2018 - October

30 Oct
Tue

The TED Interview

01:07:01
17 Oct
Wed

#140 — Burning Down the Fourth Estate

00:45:33
03 Oct
Wed

#139 — Sacred & Profane

00:42:15

2018 - September

25 Sep
Tue

Introducing Waking Up

00:10:02
20 Sep
Thu

#138 — The Edge of Humanity

00:49:31
10 Sep
Mon

#137 — Safe Space

00:40:07

2018 - August

30 Aug
Thu

#136 — Digital Humanism

00:27:27
20 Aug
Mon

#135 — Navigating Sex and Gender

00:36:50

2018 - July

29 Jul
Sun

#134 — Beyond the Politics of Race

00:50:10
18 Jul
Wed

#133 — Globalism on the Brink

00:23:54
09 Jul
Mon

#132 — Freeing the Hostages

00:26:12
03 Jul
Tue

#131 — Dictators, Immigration, #MeToo, and Other Imponderables

00:36:21

2018 - June

19 Jun
Tue

#130 — Universal Basic Income

00:24:29
12 Jun
Tue

#129 — An Insider’s View of Medicine

00:28:11
04 Jun
Mon

#128 — Transformations of Mind

01:08:44

2018 - May

28 May
Mon

#127 — Freedom from the Known

00:38:25
08 May
Tue

#126 — In Defense of Honor

00:49:56
01 May
Tue

#125 — What Is Christianity?

00:49:09

2018 - April

21 Apr
Sat

#124 — In Search of Reality

00:46:56
09 Apr
Mon

#123 — Identity & Honesty

00:52:28
03 Apr
Tue

#122 — Extreme Housekeeping Edition

00:17:37

2018 - March

25 Mar
Sun

#121 — White Power

01:00:30
19 Mar
Mon

#120 — What Is and What Matters

00:50:25
12 Mar
Mon

#119 — Hidden Motives

00:59:10

2018 - February

27 Feb
Tue

# 118 — The View from Trumpistan

00:27:56
19 Feb
Mon

#117 — Networks, Power, and Chaos

00:39:55
09 Feb
Fri

The Russell Brand Interview

02:01:14
06 Feb
Tue

#116 — AI: Racing Toward the Brink

00:54:38

2018 - January

29 Jan
Mon

#115 — Sam Harris, Lawrence Krauss, and Matt Dillahunty (1)

00:38:26
22 Jan
Mon

#114 — Politics and Sanity

00:49:30
09 Jan
Tue

#113 — Consciousness and the Self

01:42:50
02 Jan
Tue

#112 — The Intellectual Dark Web

00:54:47

2017

2017 - December

28 Dec
Thu

#111 — The Science of Meditation

00:41:11
23 Dec
Sat

#110 — The Change Artist

00:45:16
19 Dec
Tue

#109— Biology and Culture

00:55:38
14 Dec
Thu

#108 — Defending the Experts

00:42:39
06 Dec
Wed

#107 — Is Life Actually Worth Living?

00:48:32

2017 - November

29 Nov
Wed

#106 — Humanity 2.0

00:18:47
20 Nov
Mon

#105 — Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Matt Dillahunty

00:37:52
15 Nov
Wed

#104 — The Lessons of Death

00:28:04
09 Nov
Thu

#103 — American Fantasies

00:25:18

2017 - October

30 Oct
Mon

#102 — Is Buddhism True?

00:55:15
17 Oct
Tue

#101 — Defending the Republic

00:33:00
09 Oct
Mon

#100 — Facing the Crowd

00:39:13
06 Oct
Fri

The "After On" Interview

01:48:08

2017 - September

28 Sep
Thu

#99 — What Happened to Liberalism?

00:31:52
21 Sep
Thu

#98 — Into the Dark Land

00:29:50
15 Sep
Fri

#97 — The Impossible War

00:26:08
10 Sep
Sun

#96 — The Nature of Consciousness

00:50:35
05 Sep
Tue

#95 — What You Need to Know About Climate Change

00:46:08

2017 - August

29 Aug
Tue

#94 — Frontiers of Intelligence

00:36:33
21 Aug
Mon

#93 — Identity & Terror

00:39:21
16 Aug
Wed

#92 — The Limits of Persuasion

00:59:47
09 Aug
Wed

#91 — The Biology of Good and Evil

00:42:49
06 Aug
Sun

#90 — Living With Violence

01:01:06

2017 - July

25 Jul
Tue

#89 — On Becoming a Better Person

00:22:02
21 Jul
Fri

#88 — Must We Accept a Nuclear North Korea?

00:26:45
19 Jul
Wed

#87 — Triggered

00:52:33
14 Jul
Fri

#86 — From Cells to Cities

00:50:07
07 Jul
Fri

#85 — Is this the End of Europe?

00:40:05
01 Jul
Sat

#84 — Landscapes of Mind

00:45:23

2017 - June

23 Jun
Fri

#83 — The Politics of Emergency

00:38:28
15 Jun
Thu

#82 — The End of the World According to ISIS

00:42:37
09 Jun
Fri

#81 — Leaving Islam

00:49:25
04 Jun
Sun

#80 — The Unraveling

00:24:48

2017 - May

29 May
Mon

#79 — The Road to Tyranny

00:30:56
26 May
Fri

#78 — Persuasion and Control

00:40:20
22 May
Mon

#77 — The Moral Complexity of Genetics

00:43:49
18 May
Thu

#76 — The Path to Impeachment

00:39:21
12 May
Fri

#75 — Ask Me Anything 7

00:28:59
06 May
Sat

#74 — What Should We Eat?

00:46:40

2017 - April

23 Apr
Sun

#73 — Forbidden Knowledge

00:50:27
17 Apr
Mon

#72 — Privacy and Security

00:13:38
14 Apr
Fri

#71 — What Is Technology Doing to Us?

00:45:46
10 Apr
Mon

#70 — Beauty and Terror

00:49:57

2017 - March

24 Mar
Fri

#69 — The Russia Connection

00:36:54
19 Mar
Sun

#68 — Reality and the Imagination

00:38:13
13 Mar
Mon

#67 — Meaning and Chaos

00:44:50
01 Mar
Wed

#66 — Living with Robots

00:24:19

2017 - February

20 Feb
Mon

#65 — We're All Cucks Now

00:25:28
16 Feb
Thu

#64 — Ask Me Anything 6

00:42:18

2017 - January

31 Jan
Tue

#63 — Why Meditate?

00:48:07
21 Jan
Sat

#62 — What is True?

00:55:01
15 Jan
Sun

#61 — The Power of Belief

00:49:04
10 Jan
Tue

#60 — An Evening with Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris (2)

00:36:18
05 Jan
Thu

#59 — Friend & Foe

00:48:39

2016

2016 - December

27 Dec
Tue

#58 — The Putin Question

00:41:13
19 Dec
Mon

#57 — An Evening with Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris (1)

00:42:12
12 Dec
Mon

#56 — Abusing Dolores

01:08:41
06 Dec
Tue

#55 — Islamism vs Secularism

01:14:24
01 Dec
Thu

#54 — Trumping The World

00:36:01

2016 - November

24 Nov
Thu

#53 — The Dawn of Artificial Intelligence

00:36:42
16 Nov
Wed

#52 — Finding Our Way in the Cosmos

00:44:40
10 Nov
Thu

#51 — The Most Powerful Clown

00:11:58
02 Nov
Wed

#50 — The Borders of Tolerance

00:24:31

2016 - October

26 Oct
Wed

#49 — The Lesser Evil

01:04:18
21 Oct
Fri

#48 — What Is Moral Progress?

00:47:10
06 Oct
Thu

#47 — The Frontiers of Political Correctness

00:48:17

2016 - September

28 Sep
Wed

#46 — The End of Faith Sessions 3

00:26:45
13 Sep
Tue

#45 — Ask Me Anything 5

00:46:14

2016 - August

29 Aug
Mon

#44 — Being Good and Doing Good

00:55:28
17 Aug
Wed

#43 — What Do Jihadists Really Want?

00:48:05
09 Aug
Tue

#42 — Racism and Violence in America

00:55:18
01 Aug
Mon

#41 — Faith in Reason

01:03:34

2016 - July

12 Jul
Tue

#40 — Complexity & Stupidity

00:47:12
04 Jul
Mon

#39 — Free Will Revisited

00:44:42

2016 - June

15 Jun
Wed

#38 — The End of Faith Sessions 2

00:39:40

2016 - May

31 May
Tue

#37 — Thinking in Public

00:46:18
02 May
Mon

#36 — What Makes Us Safer?

00:37:20

2016 - April

25 Apr
Mon

#35 — The End Of Faith Sessions 1

00:51:00
18 Apr
Mon

#34 — The Light of the Mind

00:47:21

2016 - March

26 Mar
Sat

#33 — Ask Me Anything 4

00:28:31
12 Mar
Sat

#32 — The Best Podcast Ever

01:36:17
09 Mar
Wed

#31 — Evolving Minds

00:42:01
06 Mar
Sun

#30 — Inside the Crucible

00:42:02

2016 - February

24 Feb
Wed

#29 — Throw Open the Gates

00:51:05
20 Feb
Sat

#28 — Meat Without Misery

00:20:15
13 Feb
Sat

#27 — Ask Me Anything 3

00:29:26

2016 - January

19 Jan
Tue

#26 — The Logic of Violence

00:42:00
14 Jan
Thu

#25 — Behind the Gun

00:44:26
04 Jan
Mon

#24 — Ask Me Anything 2

00:45:24

2015

2015 - December

21 Dec
Mon

#23 — Islam and the Future of Tolerance (Audiobook Excerpts)

00:37:25
16 Dec
Wed

#22 — Surviving the Cosmos

00:48:43

2015 - November

22 Nov
Sun

#21 — On the Maintenance of Civilization

00:57:08
15 Nov
Sun

#20 — Still Sleepwalking Toward Armageddon

00:09:15

2015 - October

08 Oct
Thu

#19 — The Riddle Of The Gun (Revisited)

00:38:33

2015 - September

23 Sep
Wed

#18 — The Multiverse & You (& You & You & You...)

00:43:33
16 Sep
Wed

#17 — What I Really Think About Profiling

00:11:59

2015 - August

26 Aug
Wed

#16 — The Dark Side

00:41:34
11 Aug
Tue

#15 — Questions Along the Path

00:45:27

2015 - July

29 Jul
Wed

#14 — The Virtues of Cold Blood

00:42:01
21 Jul
Tue

#13 — The Moral Gaze

00:32:13
03 Jul
Fri

#12 — Leaving the Church

00:30:16

2015 - June

27 Jun
Sat

#11 — Shouldering the Burden of History

00:58:02

2015 - May

19 May
Tue

#10 — Faith vs. Fact

00:24:15
15 May
Fri

#9 — Final Thoughts On Chomsky

00:10:10

2015 - April

24 Apr
Fri

#8 — Ask Me Anything 1

00:37:39

2015 - March

25 Mar
Wed

#7 — Through the Eyes of a Cult

00:11:16

2015 - February

18 Feb
Wed

#6 — The Chapel Hill Murders and 'Militant' Atheism

00:11:41

2015 - January

22 Jan
Thu

#5 — After Charlie Hebdo and Other Thoughts

00:15:43

2014

2014 - October

28 Oct
Tue

#4 — The Path and the Goal

00:50:29

2014 - August

21 Aug
Thu

#3 — WAKING UP — Chapter One

00:40:22

2014 - July

27 Jul
Sun

#2 — Why Don't I Criticize Israel?

00:15:57

2014 - June

05 Jun
Thu

#1 — Drugs And The Meaning Of Life

00:20:17

2013

2013 - November

12 Nov
Tue

How to talk to a Christian

00:07:36

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