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Making Sense with

Sam Harris

Sam Harris

United States

Sam Harris, with the calm certainty of a man who believes he's the last rationalist in the room, delivers a podcast that mistakes austere clarity for intellectual daring. Making Sense flatters its audience into thinking they're brave for listening to hour-long sermons on morality, consciousness, and free will—while quietly sanding down the complexities that make those subjects interesting.

"In this chaotic time, it's so nice to hear smart people calmly discuss smart and difficult things."

- Geoff Siskind, Antica Productions

Making Sense with Sam Harris is a podcast that carries itself like a salon for the rational mind—a place where big ideas are dissected with surgical calm and a voice that rarely rises above a murmur. Harris, philosopher, neuroscientist, and perennial provocateur, positions himself as the last adult in the room, guiding listeners through conversations on consciousness, morality, free will, politics, and religion with the steady hand of someone who believes reason can still save us. The show is meticulously structured, intellectually ambitious, and often polarizing—not because Harris shouts, but because he refuses to flinch. His critics call it cold; his fans, clear-eyed. But what’s undeniable is his commitment to inquiry, even when it leads into uncomfortable territory. Like a Bergman film set to piano music, it’s not here to entertain in the conventional sense. It’s here to ask: what do we believe, and why does it matter that we’re right?