Waking Up With Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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Join neuroscientist, philosopher, and best-selling author Sam Harris as he explores important and controversial questions about the human mind, society, and current events. Sam Harris is the author of The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying, Waking Up, and Islam and the Future of Tolerance (with Maajid Nawaz). The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. His writing has been published in more than 20 languages. Mr. Harris and his work have been discussed in The New York Times, Time, Scientific American, Nature, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and many other journals. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Economist, Newsweek, The Times (London), The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The Annals of Neurology, and elsewhere. Mr. Harris received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.

Episodes

  • Bonus Questions: Johann Hari

    14/11/2018 Duration: 10min

    Johann Hari is the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream, which is being adapted into a feature film. He was twice named “Newspaper Journalist of the Year” by Amnesty International UK. He has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and others. His TED talk, “Everything You Think You Know About Addiction Is Wrong,” has more than 20 million views. His most recent book is Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions. Website: johannhari.com Twitter: @johannhari101

  • #142 - Addiction, Depression, and a Meaningful Life

    13/11/2018 Duration: 01h49min

    A Conversation with Johann Hari

  • #141 - Is #MeToo Going Too Far?

    05/11/2018 Duration: 01h41min

    A Conversation with Rebecca Traister

  • The TED Interview

    31/10/2018 Duration: 01h07min
  • Bonus Questions: Matt Taibbi

    18/10/2018 Duration: 06min

    Matt Taibbi is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone and winner of the 2008 National Magazine Award for columns and commentary. He is the author of several books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Great Derangement, Griftopia, and The Divide. He is currently working on serial book about the failings of the media, titled The Fairway: Thirty Years After Manufacturing Consent, How Mass Media Still Keeps Thought Inbounds. Twitter: @mtaibbi Website: https://taibbi.substack.com

  • #140 - Burning Down the Fourth Estate

    17/10/2018

    A Conversation with Matt Taibbi

  • #139 - Sacred & Profane

    03/10/2018

    A Conversation with Bill Maher and Larry Charles

  • #138 - The Edge of Humanity

    20/09/2018

    A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari

  • Bonus Questions: Jonathan Haidt

    11/09/2018 Duration: 10min

    Jonathan Haidt is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He received his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 and then did post-doctoral research at the University of Chicago and in Orissa, India. He taught at the University of Virginia for 16 years before moving to NYU-Stern in 2011. He was named one of the “top global thinkers” by Foreign Policy magazine, and one of the “top world thinkers” by Prospect magazine. He is the co-developer of Moral Foundations theory, and of the research site YourMorals.org. He is a co-founder of HeterodoxAcademy.org, which advocates for viewpoint diversity in higher education. He is the author of The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom and The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion. His latest book (with Greg Lukianoff) is The Coddling of the American Mind: How good intentions and bad ideas are setting a generation up for failure

  • #137 - Safe Space

    10/09/2018

    A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt

  • Bonus Questions: Jaron Lanier

    31/08/2018 Duration: 08min

    Jaron Lanier is a scientist, musician, and writer best known for his work in virtual reality and his advocacy of humanism and sustainable economics in a digital context. His 1980s start-up VPL Research created the first commercial VR products and introduced avatars, multi-person virtual world experiences, and prototypes of major VR applications such as surgical simulation. His books Who Owns the Future? and You Are Not a Gadget were international bestsellers, and Dawn of the New Everything was named a 2017 best book of the year by The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and Vox. His most recent book is 10 Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now.

  • #136 - Digital Humanism

    30/08/2018

    A Conversation with Jaron Lanier

  • #135 - Navigating Sex and Gender

    20/08/2018

    A Conversation with Martie Haselton

  • Ask Me Anything #14

    13/08/2018 Duration: 01h40min
  • #134 - Beyond the Politics of Race

    29/07/2018

    A Conversation with Coleman Hughes

  • Ask Me Anything #13

    25/07/2018 Duration: 01h03min
  • #133 - Globalism on the Brink

    18/07/2018

    A Conversation with Ian Bremmer

  • #132 - Freeing the Hostages

    09/07/2018

    A Conversation with Chris Voss

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