Making Sense

Author Sam Harris
Narrator Sam Harris, David J. Chalmers, Babette Deutsch, Timothy Snyder, Robert M Sapolsky, Daniel Kahneman, Max Tegmark, Anil Seth, David Krakauer, Glenn C. Loury, Nick Bostrom, Thomas Metzinger, various
Publisher Transworld
Publish Date 11 August 2020
Run Time 22 hours and 27 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Ethical issues and debates, Impact of science and technology on society, Religion and politics, Social and political philosophy.

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“Civilization rests on a series of successful conversations.” —Sam Harris

Neuroscientist, philosopher, podcaster and bestselling author Sam Harris, has been exploring some of the greatest questions concerning the human mind, society, and the events that shape our world.

Harris’ search for deeper understanding of how we think has led him to engage and exchange with some of our most brilliant and controversial contemporary minds - Daniel Kahneman, Robert Sapolsky, Anil Seth and Max Tegmark - in order to unpack and understand ideas of consciousness, free will, extremism, and ethical living.

For Harris, honest conversation, no matter how difficult or contentious, represents the only path to moral and intellectual progress.

Featuring eleven conversations from the hit podcast, these electric exchanges fuse wisdom with rigorous interrogation to shine a light on what it means to make sense of our world today.

"I don’t have many can’t miss podcasts, but Making Sense is right at the top of that short list" Stephen Fry

"Sam Harris is the most intellectually courageous man I know" Richard Dawkins

© Sam Harris 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Critics Review

I don't have many can't miss podcasts, but Making Sense is right at the top of that short list. Sam Harris and his varied and fascinating guests generate light but not heat. The choir is neither preached to nor pointlessly provoked. I have never finished a single episode without having learned something and being given pause for real thought.

Stephen Fry

Even in casual discussion, Sam is intelligent, educated, honest, considered and brave. He's really not cut out for the Internet.

Ricky Gervais

Sam Harris is the most intellectually courageous man I know, not afraid to speak truths out in the open where others keep those very same thoughts buried, fearful of the modish thought police. His literate intelligence and fluency with words has transferred from the written to the spoken medium, and in his podcast he brings out the best in his guests, including those with whom he disagrees.

Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion

Do yourself a favor, broaden your perspectives and listen to the Making Sense podcast. Whatever your politics, you will find ideas and points of views you've never considered before, in fields you don't know, from neuroscience to computer science to culture.

Anne Applebaum, author of Gulag

Of all the podcasts available, the one nobody should miss is Making Sense. Every episode is stimulating. In an era when everyone seems to have lost their reason, here is one of the few places where reason remains safe.

Douglas Murray, author of The Strange Death of Europe and The Madness of Crowds

In the rapidly expanding universe of podcasts, Sam Harris's Making Sense is a firmly established galaxy of brilliant minds orbiting Sam's shrewd but solar intelligence. I am frequently late for work because I start listening while shaving and can't bring myself to hit pause.

Niall Ferguson

I've been an avid listener to Sam's podcast from the beginning and not one episode goes by without me learning something new about life, culture, politics, religion, history, and especially the human mind. Sam is an enlightened, rational voice in a world that needs it now, perhaps more than ever, especially if we are to survive, or thrive, in spite of the collective weaknesses that make us human.

Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History

There's only one podcast I never miss, and it's the one that has the most appropriate title in all of broadcasting. Does anyone simply make more sense than Sam Harris?

Bill Maher

One of the most consistently intelligent and thought-provoking shows out there, and not just in the podcast space. Sam's is a much-needed voice during these unprecedented times.

Ian Bremmer, author of Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism

Sam Harris is a genius and his podcast explores many of the important issues of our time. (Yes it's as good as that sounds.) Sam is a voice of reason and science in an era that needs both more than ever. The Making Sense podcast essentially launched my presidential campaign.

Andrew Yang

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