Making Sense with Sam Harris
4.3/5
Critic Rating
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...
Critic Reviews
Score: 4
James Marriot • The Times UK • Apr 30, 2025
"There are a host of good episodes to try. I enjoyed the author and popular historian Tom Holland on the legacy of Christianity, the cognitive scientist Scott Barry Kaufman on “the victimhood pandemic”, and the journalist Helen Lewis on changes in the media. Real historians, real scientists, real journalists. Revolutionary stuff. I wonder if it will ever catch on."
Score: 4.5
Zoe Strimpel • The Spectator • Jan 31, 2023
"Sam Harris’s acclaimed podcast Making Sense rumbles on with his trademark mix of the arcane and the slightly vague and dreamy, as if he is musing from bed...for those with a yen to anchor some of the squeal and noise of current politics in a longer, stronger framework of political philosophy."
