Making Sense Episodes

#500 - The Playing Animal

A Conversation with Jimmy Carr

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#499 - The Birth of AGI

A Conversation with Kevin Roose

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#498 - More From Sam: Bond Villains, Useful Idiots, Firing Squads, and More

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#497 - The Confidence Man

A Conversation with Alex Gibney

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#496 - The Oldest Lie

A Conversation with Dara Horn

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#495 - Foreign Policy for Sale

A Conversation with Anne Applebaum

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#494 - A Coin Toss for the Future

A Conversation with Ryan Greenblatt

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#493 - Two Reasons to Meditate

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#492 - The Second Plane, 25 Years Later

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#491 - The Suicide of the Left

A Conversation with James Kirchick

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#490 - Lies, Bulls**t, and the Rule of Law

A Conversation with Preet Bharara

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#489 - More From Sam: A Fabulist at Cambridge, the Strait of Hormuz, AOC in 2028, and More

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#150 - The Map of Misunderstanding (From the Archive)

A Conversation with Daniel Kahneman

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#488 - Ego, Ecstasy, and Equanimity

A Conversation with Neal Brennan

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#487 - Is AI Already Conscious?

A Conversation with Cameron Berg

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#486 - Luck All the Way Down

A Conversation with Kathryn Paige Harden

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#485 - The New Science of Cancer

A Conversation with Siddhartha Mukherjee

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#484 - Artificial Intimacy

A Conversation with Paul Bloom

Waking Up Conversations

The Whole Being

A Conversation with Meido Moore Roshi

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#483 - The Knots We Tie Ourselves Into

A Conversation with Alain de Botton

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#482 - More From Sam: The Iran Deal, College in the AI Age, Mamdani’s DSA, and More

Waking Up Conversations

What Is Experience?

A Conversation with Alex O'Connor

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#481 - Sam Harris Receives the 2026 Richard Dawkins Award

Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins in Conversation

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#480 - The Economics of Everything

A Conversation with Noah Smith

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The Bittersweet Age

A Conversation with Susan Cain

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#479 - When Robots Take Over

A Conversation with Vinod Khosla

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#478 - The Psychedelic Mind

A Conversation with Robin Carhart-Harris