Making Sense Podcast

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Malaria may have killed more people than almost anything else in human history. This beautifully made short from Giving What We Can and Justin Portela tells the astonishing story of the global effort to eradicate it. Worth watching.

The Truth About Peter Thiel's “Secret Society”

To Pro-Israel Trump Voters: He Betrayed You Too. "To see the light bulb go on in the mind of somebody where the lights have been off for basically a decade… to feel not relief, but just a renewed sense of anger."

Sam Harris: Tulsi Gabbard ran U.S. intelligence while reportedly taking direct guidance from her "guru" who was wording her tweets, telling her what bills to introduce. "It's a clown car, and it's terrifying."

"He has humiliated himself utterly — and also our country utterly." Sam Harris on Trump's Black Mirror-like capitulation to Iran.

From Sam's talk with @havivrettiggur

Sam Harris's prediction from June 1st: Trump's Israel support isn't ideological — it's transactional. If Iran's leaders had offered him a billion dollars in crypto, there might never have been a war.

“You don’t have to debate the history of the Middle East to resolve the conflict there.” Sam Harris on why he believes the real issue isn’t ancient grievance, but present-day values, intentions, and ideology.

In a recent essay, Sam Harris explains why engaging with critics who single out Israel as the world’s foremost villain while ignoring the realities of its jihadist enemies is a futile exercise. As Jonathan Swift observed, “You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place.”

There Was No Famine in Gaza

Would you read an AI-written book if it was the best one ever written on the subject? Sam Harris: "That's the book I want on my shelf."

Being jacked and saying "I just eat clean" when you're on testosterone and steroids is considered dishonest. Why is hiding GLP-1 use any different? Sam Harris on the ethics of body transformation secrets.

Trump’s $1.8 Billion Slush Fund: Sam Harris on corruption, political double standards, and why the public response feels strangely muted in the face of it all.

“Maybe we’re not a paper tiger… but we’re something close.” Sam Harris on American weakness, military readiness, and the cost of bluffing your way through global conflict.

Supporting Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and saying America deserved 9/11 will get you... a New York Times style profile, an op-ed, and an Ezra Klein endorsement. This is not sanity. This is suicide.

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"We need less noise, more signal, and more civility." — Sam on why we built Making Sense Community. Subscribe before June 1st and it's included free.

"That's what a genocide is — the eradication project." Sam Harris on the deliberate dumbing down of our moral vocabulary.

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NEW EPISODE Hasan Piker, Islamism, Making Sense Community, and More (Ep. 474) Sam and Jaron discuss the launch of Making Sense Community, Sam’s Ben Shapiro conversation, NYT's embrace of Hasan Piker, Zohran Mamdani’s approach to Islamism, and the misuse of the word genocide.