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#15 — Questions Along the Path
Sam Harris and Joseph Goldstein discuss the practice of meditation and answer questions that came from listeners in response to their first conversat…
11 years ago
#14 — The Virtues of Cold Blood
Sam Harris speaks with psychologist Paul Bloom about the limitations of empathy as a guide to moral reasoning.
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11 years, 1 month ago
#13 — The Moral Gaze
Sam Harris speaks with the filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer about his remarkable documentaries, "The Act of Killing" and "The Look of Silence."
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11 years, 1 month ago
#12 — Leaving the Church
Sam Harris speaks with Megan Phelps-Roper, granddaughter of Fred Phelps of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church.
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11 years, 2 months ago
#11 — Shouldering the Burden of History
Sam Harris and Dan Carlin (host of the Hardcore History and Common Sense podcasts) discuss American interventionism, the war on terror, and related t…
11 years, 2 months ago
#10 — Faith vs. Fact
Sam Harris interviews biologist Jerry Coyne about his new book, "Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible."
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11 years, 3 months ago
#9 — Final Thoughts On Chomsky
Sam Harris reflects on his failure to have a productive conversation with Noam Chomsky.
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11 years, 3 months ago
#8 — Ask Me Anything 1
Sam Harris talks about atheism, artificial intelligence, rape, public speaking, meditation, consciousness, free will, intellectual honesty, and other…
11 years, 4 months ago
#7 — Through the Eyes of a Cult
Sam Harris discusses the Heaven's Gate suicide cult and argues that we all have something important to learn from them about the power of belief.
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11 years, 5 months ago
#6 — The Chapel Hill Murders and 'Militant' Atheism
Sam Harris responds to the charge that "militant" atheism is responsible for the murder of three Muslim students in North Carolina.
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11 years, 6 months ago