# Making Sense with Sam Harris

A podcast by Sam Harris. Join neuroscientist, philosopher, and five-time New York Times best-selling author Sam Harris as he explores important and controversial questions about the mind, society, current events, moral philosophy, religion, and rationality—with an overarching focus on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live. Sam is also the creator of the Waking Up app. Combining Sam's decades of mindfulness practice, profound wisdom from varied philosophical and contemplative traditions, and a commitment to a secular, scientific worldview, Waking Up is a resource for anyone interested in living a more examined, fulfilling life—and a new operating system for the mind. Waking Up offers free subscriptions to anyone who can't afford one, and donates a minimum of 10% of profits to the most effective charities around the world. To learn more, please go to WakingUp.com. Sam Harris received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.

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## Latest episodes

- [#499 — The Birth of AGI](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/6f27cdc2be1e) (2026-10-20, 21 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/499_MS_Kevin_Roose_10-13-26_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#498 — More From Sam: Bond Villains, Useful Idiots, Firing Squads, and More](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/9d8b47428c3a) (2026-10-14, 23 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/498_MS_MFS_10-12-26_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#497 — The Confidence Man](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/c5d1e922083b) (2026-10-09, 22 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/497_MS_Alex_Gibney_Paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#496 — The Oldest Lie](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/3a6e3971ec8a) (2026-10-07, 101 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/496_MS_Dara_Horn_Subscriber.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#495 — Foreign Policy for Sale](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/2dde897774db) (2026-10-01, 19 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/495_MS_Anne_Applebaum_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#494 — A Coin Toss for the Future](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/11bca8bb2ff2) (2026-09-24, 93 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/494_MS_Ryan_Greenblatt_subscriber.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#493 — Two Reasons to Meditate](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/e239846be7e5) (2026-09-17, 13 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/493_MS_two-reasons-to-meditate_PSA.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#492 — The Second Plane, 25 Years Later](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/4e13fe3582b6) (2026-09-09, 38 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/492_911_2026_subscriber_v7.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#491 — The Suicide of the Left](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/b72cb6a9cc8e) (2026-09-01, 26 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/491_MS_James_Kirchick_paywalled.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#490 — Lies, Bulls**t, and the Rule of Law](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/15bace9d700b) (2026-08-25, 24 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/488_MS_Preet_Bharara_Paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#489 — More From Sam: A Fabulist at Cambridge, the Strait of Hormuz, AOC in 2028, and More](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/a50fa74760f4) (2026-08-21, 24 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/490_MFS_8-20-26_Paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#150 — The Map of Misunderstanding (From the Archive)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/48ff7bf692f2) (2026-08-11, 48 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/489_MS_Daniel_Kahneman_paywall_v2.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#488 — Ego, Ecstasy, and Equanimity](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/6378259daa94) (2026-08-04, 13 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/488_MS_Neal_Brennan_paywall__intro.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#487 — Is AI Already Conscious?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/e42030af561a) (2026-07-31, 86 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/487_MS_Cameron_Berg_subscriber-psa.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#486 — Luck All the Way Down](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/60faf3566115) (2026-07-22, 22 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/486_MS_Paige_Harden_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#485 — The New Science of Cancer](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/f34fb6faa177) (2026-07-14, 82 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/485_MS_Siddhartha_Mukherjee_subscriber.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#484 — Artificial Intimacy](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/56816546b6b1) (2026-07-08, 28 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/484_MS_Paul_Bloom_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#483 — The Knots We Tie Ourselves Into](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/5598a11a8426) (2026-07-01, 23 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/482_MS_Alain_deBotton_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#482 — More From Sam: The Iran Deal, College in the AI Age, Mamdani's DSA, and More](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/978f16f5adf7) (2026-06-25, 22 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/482_MFS_6-25-26_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#481 — Sam Harris Receives the 2026 Richard Dawkins Award](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/ba02bde0398f) (2026-06-17, 55 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/481_MS_Richard_Dawkins_subscriber.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#480 — The Economics of Everything](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/b8f2aab7b002) (2026-06-12, 25 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/480_MS_Noah_Smith_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#479 — When Robots Take Over](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/b7a6452fd9a9) (2026-06-04, 16 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/471_MS_Vinod_Khosla_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#478 — The Psychedelic Mind](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/8a6ff3e49ebb) (2026-05-29, 30 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/Making_Sense_467_Robin_Carhart_Harris_paywall_v2.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#477 — More From Sam: Iran's Unraveling, The Gaza Information War, AI-Generated Music, and More](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/b57eac766ee4) (2026-05-26, 22 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/477_MS_MFS_5-25-26_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#476 — The Bittersweet Age](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/58ea93e70788) (2026-05-20, 23 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/476_MS_Susan_Cain_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#475 — The Hard Problem of Consciousness](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/3efb1ced5f01) (2026-05-12, 26 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/474_MS_Michael_Pollan_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#474 — More From Sam: Hasan Piker, Islamism, Making Sense Community, and More](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/5c3bd132d0ae) (2026-05-07, 18 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/474_MS_MFS_5-7-26_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#473 — Money, Power, and Moral Failure](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/ff618219031d) (2026-04-29, 23 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/473_MS_Lloyd_Blankfein_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#472 — Strange Days on the Right](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/eed55ee3a996) (2026-04-24, 17 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/472_MS_Ben_Shapiro_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#471 — The End of History, Revisited](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/591f5987cc9c) (2026-04-16, 19 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/471_MS_Francis_Fukuyama_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#470 — Democrats at a Crossroads](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/160ec6b10899) (2026-04-13, 22 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/470_MS_Rahm_Emanuel_paywall__outro_V2.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#469 — Escaping an Anti-Human Future](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/7b6df256421e) (2026-04-10, 110 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/469_MS_Tristan_Harris_subscriber.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#468 — More From Sam: Gratitude, Bad Conversations, Conspiracy Addiction, Waffle House Teleportation, and More](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/cf9b55ee9fec) (2026-04-07, 33 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/Making_Sense_468_MFS_4-6-26_paywall_FINAL.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#467 — EA, AI, and the End of Work](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/d6e71c0bc324) (2026-03-30, 30 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/467_Making_Sense_Will_MacAskill_paywall_Final.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#466 — What Is Technology Doing to Us?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/eb21df6f4859) (2026-03-24, 20 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/Making_Sense_466_Nicholas_Christakis_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#465 — More From Sam: Iran, Jihadism, Conspiracism, AI Disruption, the Manosphere, and More](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/02cf23bb9c1f) (2026-03-18, 36 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/Making_Sense_465_MFS_3-18-26_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#464 — The Politics of Pragmatism and the Future of California](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/bfce7959b353) (2026-03-16, 83 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/Making_Sense_464_Matt_Mahan_subscriber-PSA.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#463 — Privatizing the Apocalypse](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/1e0c41aa8c75) (2026-03-11, 22 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/Making_Sense_463_Rob_Reid_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#462 — More From Sam: The Iran War, American Amorality, Addressing Hopelessness, Tucker, and More](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/498cc629f99c) (2026-03-06, 20 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/Making_Sense_462_MFS_3-5-26_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#461 — Dictators Always Tell You What They'll Do](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/354b1d69f4ec) (2026-02-25, 30 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/Making_Sense_461_Gary_Kasparov_paywall_standard.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#460 — When the Center Cannot Hold](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/19bdc03b0479) (2026-02-20, 22 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/Making_Sense_460_Jonah_Goldberg_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#459 — More From Sam: Corruption, Immigration, The End of White-Collar Work, and More](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/73013f76f708) (2026-02-13, 10 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/Making_Sense_459_MFS_2-12-26_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#458 — The Bulwark Against MAGA](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/faa1340bddde) (2026-02-11, 59 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/Making_Sense_458_Sarah_Longwell__Tim_Miller_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#457 — More From Sam: The Epstein Files, The Newsom Factor, Don Lemon's Arrest, AI Market Disruption, and More](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/ee2c4e2bf039) (2026-02-05, 17 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/Making_Sense_457_MFS_2-4-26_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#456 — American Fascism](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/5c724ef3d71b) (2026-02-04, 22 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/Making_Sense_456_Jonathan_Rauch_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#455 — More From Sam: Guns, Propaganda, AI, and Power Unbound](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/c03ee76856ea) (2026-01-30, 12 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/Making_Sense_455_MFS_1-29-26_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#454 — More From Sam: Minnesota, Greenland, Iran, S**thole Countries, and More](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/42ce4d9ca3de) (2026-01-21, 18 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/Making_Sense_453_MFS_1-21-26_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#453 — AI and the New Face of Antisemitism](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/6d3b348bafb1) (2026-01-16, 22 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/Making_Sense_452_Judea_Pearl_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#452 — Is Wokeness Finally Dead?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/9c65b67fd67d) (2026-01-07, 22 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/Making_Sense_451_John_McWhorter_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596
- [#451 — The One Resolution That Matters Most](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/733163012/edd337e9d5be) (2025-12-31, 10 min): audio https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/Making_Sense_New_Year_2026.mp3?dest-id=480596

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