Podcast Episodes
Back to Search#257 — The State of the World
Sam Harris speaks with Dambisa Moyo about the state of the world. They discuss public goods, economic growth, capitalism, American economic history, …
5 years ago
Ask Me Anything #17
In this episode of the podcast, Sam takes your questions. He begins by addressing the blowback that followed his previous podcast on "vaccine hesitan…
5 years, 1 month ago
#256 — A Contagion of Bad Ideas
Sam Harris speaks with Eric Topol about vaccine hesitancy and related misinformation. They discuss the problem of political and social siloing, conce…
5 years, 1 month ago
#255 — The Future of Intelligence
Sam Harris speaks with Jeff Hawkins about the nature of intelligence. They discuss how the neocortex creates models of the world, the role of predict…
5 years, 1 month ago
#254 — The Mating Strategies of Earthlings
Sam Harris speaks with David Buss about the differential mating strategies of men and women. They discuss the controversy that surrounds evolutionary…
5 years, 2 months ago
#253 — Corporate Courage
Sam Harris speaks with Jason Fried about the recent controversy over the "no politics" policy at his company Basecamp. They discuss his business phil…
5 years, 2 months ago
#252 — Are We Alone in the Universe?
Sam Harris speaks with Neil deGrasse Tyson about our place in the universe. They discuss our current understanding of extra-solar planets, the prospe…
5 years, 2 months ago
#251 — Corporate Cowardice
Sam Harris speaks with Antonio García-Martínez about his recent firing at Apple. They discuss his experience in tech, his book "Chaos Monkeys," the c…
5 years, 3 months ago
#250 — Broken Conversations
Sam Harris speaks with Jesse Singal about a variety of controversial topics. They discuss fragmentation in the media, bad incentives in journalism, J…
5 years, 3 months ago
#249 — Distance & Arrival
Sam Harris and David Whyte further explore his work in his book Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words.
If th…
5 years, 3 months ago