Sam Harris speaks with Michele Gelfand about the difference between tight and loose cultures. They discuss the primacy of cultural norms in governing human behavior, the trade-offs between order and freedom, conservatism vs liberalism, sensitivity to threat, scarcity, the COVID pandemic, the Jeffrey Toobin affair, political polarization, the problem of extreme stereotypes, and other topics. 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.

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#248 — Order & Freedom

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Sam Harris Episodes Around April 30, 2021

#234 — The Divided Mind

#235 — A Call from Ricky Gervais

#236 — Rebooting New York City

#237 — Another Call from Ricky Gervais

#238 — How to Build a Universe

#239 — Yet Another Call from Ricky Gervais

#240 — The Boundaries of Self

#241 — Final Thoughts on Free Will

#242 — Psychedelics and the Self

#243 — A Few Points of Confusion

#244 — Food, Climate, and Pandemic Risk

#245 — Can We Talk About Scary Ideas?

#246 — Police Training & Police Misconduct

#247 — Constructing Minds

Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse

#248 — Order & Freedom

#249 — Distance & Arrival

#250 — Broken Conversations

#251 — Corporate Cowardice

#252 — Are We Alone in the Universe?

#253 — Corporate Courage

#254 — The Mating Strategies of Earthlings

#255 — The Future of Intelligence

#256 — A Contagion of Bad Ideas

Ask Me Anything #17

#257 — The State of the World

#258 — The Fall of Afghanistan

#259 — The Reckoning to Come

#260 — The Second Plane

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