<p>Sam Harris speaks with Jared Diamond about the rise and fall of civilizations. They discuss political polarization, disparities in civilizational progress, the prospect that there may be biological differences between populations, the precariousness of democracy in the US, the lack of a strong political center, immigration policy, and other topics.</p> <p>If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe.</p>

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Sam Harris Episodes Around June 24, 2019

#146 — Digital Capitalism

#147 — Stephen Fry

#148 — Jack Dorsey

#149 — The Problem of Addiction

#150 — The Map of Misunderstanding

#151 — Will We Destroy the Future?

#152 — The Trouble with Facebook

#153 — Possible Minds

#154 — What Do Jihadists Really Want? (2019)

#155 — Mental Models

#156 — The Evolution of Culture

#157 — What Does the Mueller Report Really Say?

#158 — Understanding Humans in the Wild

#159 — Conscious

#160 — The Revenge of History

#161 — Rise & Fall

#162 — Medical Intelligence

#163 — Ricky Gervais

#164 — Cause & Effect

#165 — Journey into Wokeness

#166 — The Plague Years

#167 — A Few Thoughts on White Supremacy

#168 — Mind, Space, & Motion

#169 — Omens of a Race War

#170 — The Great Uncoupling

#171 — Escaping a Christian Cult

#172 — Among the Deplorables

#173 — Anti-Semitism and Its Discontents

#174 — Life & Mind

#175 — Leaving the Faith

#176 — Knowledge & Redemption

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