In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris discusses the Heaven’s Gate suicide cult and argues that we all have something important to learn from them about the...
Networks, Power, And Chaos
In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Niall Ferguson about his new book The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook...
A Conversation With Paul Bloom
In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris and Paul Bloom discuss topics in the news including the tragic death of Kobe Bryant. They also explore the paradoxes of...
Is Buddhism True?
Robert Wright is the New York Times bestselling author of The Evolution of God (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), Nonzero, The Moral Animal, Three Scientists and their Gods (a...
Humanity 2.0
In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Jennifer Doudna about the gene-editing technology CRISPR/Cas9. They talk about the biology of gene editing, how...
American Fantasies
Kurt Andersen is the bestselling author of the novels Heyday, Turn of the Century, and True Believers. He contributes to Vanity Fair and The New York Times, and is host and...
Beauty And Terror
Lawrence Krauss is a theoretical physicist and the director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University. He is the author of more than 300 scientific publications and nine...
Conversations On Consciousness
Join Sam Harris in some of his many conversations on consciousness, the mind and the concept of self.In the first conversation Sam Harris speaks to Thomas K. Metzinger. Thomas K....
Possible Minds
In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris introduces John Brockman’s new anthology, "Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI," in conversation with three of its...
The Moral Complexity Of Genetics
Siddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a staff cancer physician at the CU/NYU Presbyterian...
