Podcast Episodes
Back to Search#248 — Order & Freedom
Sam Harris speaks with Michele Gelfand about the difference between tight and loose cultures. They discuss the primacy of cultural norms in governing…
5 years, 4 months ago
Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse
In this nearly 4-hour SPECIAL EPISODE, Rob Reid delivers a 100-minute monologue (broken up into 4 segments, and interleaved with discussions with Sam…
5 years, 4 months ago
#247 — Constructing Minds
Sam Harris speaks with Lisa Feldman Barrett about the origins and function of the human brain. They discuss how brains evolved, the myth of the "triu…
5 years, 4 months ago
#246 — Police Training & Police Misconduct
Sam Harris speaks with Rener Gracie about police procedure and about the special relevance of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for safely controlling resisting su…
5 years, 4 months ago
#245 — Can We Talk About Scary Ideas?
Sam Harris speaks with Peter Singer, Francesca Minerva, and Jeff McMahan about the newly launched Journal of Controversial Ideas. They discuss the et…
5 years, 4 months ago
#244 — Food, Climate, and Pandemic Risk
Sam Harris speaks with Bruce Friedrich and Liz Specht from the Good Food Institute about the way the problems of climate change and pandemic risk are…
5 years, 5 months ago
#243 — A Few Points of Confusion
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5 years, 5 months ago
#242 — Psychedelics and the Self
Sam Harris speaks with James Fadiman about the psychedelic experience. They discuss who should and shouldn't take psychedelics, set and setting, the …
5 years, 5 months ago
#241 — Final Thoughts on Free Will
Sam Harris presents his full argument on the illusoriness of free will—and explores its ethical and psychological implications.
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5 years, 5 months ago
#240 — The Boundaries of Self
Sam speaks with poet David Whyte about his new and on-going series for the Waking Up app, based on his book, Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment an…
5 years, 6 months ago