Sam Harris speaks with Yasmine Mohammed about her book Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam. They discuss her family background and indoctrination into conservative Islam, the double standard that Western liberals use when think

#151 - Will We Destroy the Future?

Nov 20th, 2023 1h 33m

Sam Harris speaks with Nick Bostrom about the problem of existential risk. They discuss public goods, moral illusions, the asymmetry between happiness and suffering, utilitarianism, “the vulnerable world hypothesis,” the history of nuclear dete

#207 - Can We Pull Back From The Brink?

Nov 13th, 2023 1h 53m

Sam discusses the recent social protests and civil unrest, in light of what we know about racism and police violence in America.An annotated transcript of this podcast, complete with links to relevant videos, data, etc. is available on Sam’s b

#104 - The Lessons of Death

Nov 6th, 2023 1h 8m

Sam Harris speaks with Frank Ostaseski about death and dying—and about how the awareness of death can improve our lives in each moment.Frank Ostaseski is a Buddhist teacher, international lecturer and a leading voice in end-of-life care. In 19

#91 - The Biology of Good and Evil

Oct 30th, 2023 1h 38m

Sam Harris speaks with Robert Sapolsky about the brain and human behavior. They discuss the relationship between reason and emotion, the role of the frontal cortex, the illusion of free will, punishment and retributive justice, neurological dis

#125 - What is Christianity?

Oct 23rd, 2023 1h 50m

Sam Harris speaks to Bart Ehrman about his experience of being a born-again Christian, his academic training in New Testament scholarship, his loss of faith, the most convincing argument in defense of Christianity, the status of miracles, the c

#22 - Surviving the Cosmos

Oct 16th, 2023 1h 52m

Sam Harris talks to physicist David Deutsch about the reach and power of human knowledge, the future of artificial intelligence, and the survival of civilization.David Deutsch is best known as the founding father of the quantum theory of compu

#68 - Reality and the Imagination

Oct 9th, 2023 1h 12m

Sam Harris speaks with Yuval Noah Harari about meditation, the need for stories, the power of technology to erase the boundary between fact and fiction, wealth inequality, the problem of finding meaning in a world without work, religion as a vi

#14 - The Virtues of Cold Blood

Oct 2nd, 2023 1h 29m

Sam Harris speaks with psychologist Paul Bloom about the limitations of empathy as a guide to moral reasoning, why empathy is a bad metric for measuring one’s character, cognitive biases, and other topics.Paul Bloom is Professor of Psychology

#34 - The Light of the Mind

Sep 25th, 2023 1h 44m

Sam Harris speaks with philosopher David Chalmers about the nature of consciousness, the challenges of understanding it scientifically, and the prospect that we will one day build it into our machines.David Chalmers is Professor of Philosophy

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