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Sam Harris Episodes Around August 12, 2024

#364 — Facts & Values

#365 — Reality Check

#366 — Urban Warfare 2.0

#367 — Campus Protests, Antisemitism, and Western Values

#368 — Freedom & Censorship

#369 — Escaping Death

#370 — Gender Apartheid and the Future of Iran

#371 — What the Hell Is Happening?

#372 — Life & Work

#373 — Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism

#374 — Consciousness and the Physical World

#375 — On the Attempted Assassination of President Trump

#376 — How Democracies Fail

#377 — The Future of Psychedelic Medicine 2

#378 — Digital Delusions

#379 — Regulating Artificial Intelligence

#380 — The Roots of Attention

#381 — Delusions, Right and Left

#382 — The Eye of Nature

#383 — Where Are the Grown-Ups?

#384 — Stress Testing Our Democracy

#385 — AI Utopia

#386 — Information & Social Order

#387 — Politics & Power

#388 — What Is Life?

#389 — The Politics of Risk

#390 — Final Thoughts on the 2024 Presidential Election

#391 — The Reckoning

#392 — Technology & Culture

#393 — Is History Repeating Itself?

#394 — Bringing Back the Mammoth

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