# making sense (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 6 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover making sense. Page: Feed: --- ## [Two Jews Debate Abdul El-Sayed](https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/two-jews-debate-abdul-el-sayed) _2026-08-21 · Peter Beinart · The Beinart Notebook_ Michigan Rabbi Asher Lopatin and I hash out our differences about his state’s Democratic nominee for Senate [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211800632/f0e78321a5da17ffc25f73bd03465414.mp3) ## [Settler Violence is State Violence](https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/settler-violence-is-state-violence) _2026-08-17 · Peter Beinart · The Beinart Notebook_ Thinking that a state based on Jewish supremacy will crack down on settler violence is like thinking George Wallace would crack down on the Klan. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211470525/94a1ec2117288a28fb6c16a493afb1a5.mp3) ## [Norm Finkelstein](https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/norm-finkelstein-2026) _2026-08-16 · Peter Beinart · The Beinart Notebook_ Finally, mainstream [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211236180/8042e73f63158724c804cf0dcfede9a4.mp3) ## [Rahm Emanuel and I Debate Israeli history](https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/rahm-emanuel-2026) _2026-08-12 · Peter Beinart · The Beinart Notebook_ “Bill Clinton agrees with me, not with you.” [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210015210/021ca266a530d710c71097ea3d87c980.mp3) ## [The Map of Misunderstanding](https://samharris.substack.com/p/the-map-of-misunderstanding) _2026-08-11 · Sam Harris · Sam Harris_ A Conversation with Daniel Kahneman (From the Archive: Ep. 150) [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210792238/62b5fb213a44ac3ba38fdc55d1e6b022.mp3) ## [#150 — The Map of Misunderstanding (From the Archive)](https://wakingup.libsyn.com/150-the-map-of-misunderstanding-from-the-archive) _2026-08-11 · Making Sense with Sam Harris_ From the archive: In this 2019 episode, Sam Harris speaks with Daniel Kahneman at the Beacon Theatre in NYC. They discuss the replication crisis in science, System 1 and System 2, where intuitions reliably fail, expert intuitions, the power of framing, moral illusions, anticipated regret, the asymmetry between threats and opportunities, the utility of worrying, removing obstacles to wanted… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/489_MS_Daniel_Kahneman_paywall_v2.mp3?dest-id=480596) ## [First They Came for Abdul El-Sayed](https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/first-they-came-for-abdul-el-sayed) _2026-08-10 · Peter Beinart · The Beinart Notebook_ A Republican Party that is willing to demonize Muslims to win elections will, sooner or later, do the same to Jews [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210537132/7de1ffed1dfc6a30621a9767e1003c97.mp3) ## [What do Anti-War Conservatives Believe?](https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/what-do-anti-war-conservatives-believe) _2026-08-09 · Peter Beinart · The Beinart Notebook_ A conversation with Curt Mills, Executive Director of The American Conservative [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210276766/c8ba2453df78a80780fbb7cf8fa01e3c.mp3) ## [How Abdul El-Sayed Won](https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/andy-levins-revenge) _2026-08-05 · Peter Beinart · The Beinart Notebook_ Former Michigan Congressman Andy Levin, who lost in 2022 to AIPAC and Haley Stevens talks about yesterday’s victory of his friend [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209951881/33b7b6400d855a0fb54d7afa5f4c8442.mp3) ## [Ego, Ecstasy, and Equanimity (Ep. 488)](https://samharris.substack.com/p/ego-ecstasy-and-equanimity-ep-488) _2026-08-04 · Sam Harris · Sam Harris_ A Conversation with Neal Brennan [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209792672/533f16c3a3b50b66eba8d0f9c8f6871b.mp3) ## [Point a Domain, Start a Pit (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/lZGuJuo0ZSG8) _2026-08-04 · **Sponsored**_ Point any domain to a blacked-out, poison-green coming-soon page with an email waitlist. ## [#488 — Ego, Ecstasy, and Equanimity](https://wakingup.libsyn.com/488-ego-ecstasy-and-equanimity) _2026-08-04 · Making Sense with Sam Harris_ Sam Harris speaks with Neal Brennan about the experiences that shaped his life and work. They discuss Sam's mother's television career, growing up with an absent father, his struggles with perfectionism, his first experience with MDMA, dropping out of Stanford, meditation retreats, spiritual charisma and claims of psychic powers, the illusion of self, the limits of pacifism, deleting Twitter,… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/488_MS_Neal_Brennan_paywall__intro.mp3?dest-id=480596) ## [The American Jewish Establishment Has Given Up on American Democracy](https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/the-american-jewish-establishment) _2026-08-03 · Peter Beinart · The Beinart Notebook_ American Jewry’s Most Powerful Organizations Care More About Whether a Politician Supports Israel than Whether They Support Free Elections in the United States [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209569283/ccd6d0a07bc2a773797833a551a86231.mp3) ## [Is AI Already Conscious? (Ep. 487)](https://samharris.substack.com/p/is-ai-already-conscious-ep-487) _2026-07-31 · Sam Harris · Sam Harris_ A Conversation with Cameron Berg [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209193429/3ff5e161fc56d26bcb09d0288b876df6.mp3) ## [#487 — Is AI Already Conscious?](https://wakingup.libsyn.com/487-is-ai-already-conscious) _2026-07-31 · Making Sense with Sam Harris_ Sam Harris speaks with Cameron Berg about whether AI systems are or could become conscious. They discuss self-reports in LLMs, what models say when deception is switched off, the "bliss attractor" state, consciousness and sentience, the hard problem of consciousness, parallels between neural networks and biological brains, the moral risk of building minds that can suffer, possible parallels to… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/487_MS_Cameron_Berg_subscriber-psa.mp3?dest-id=480596) ## [Thomas Wright on His Time on Biden’s National Security Council](https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/thomas-wright-2026) _2026-07-31 · Peter Beinart · The Beinart Notebook_ and what US foreign policy should be going forward [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/208528950/eb41e00dbb178e60ec1a978e51b727ba.mp3) ## [The Push and Pull of Real Life](https://poojalakshmin.substack.com/p/the-push-and-pull-of-real-life) _2026-07-29 · Pooja Lakshmin MD · Real Self-Care with Pooja Lakshmin_ On letting go of perfection and embracing the seesaw. ## [The Incoherence of Blaming Mamdani for anti-Jewish Violence](https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/the-incoherence-of-blaming-mamdani) _2026-07-27 · Peter Beinart · The Beinart Notebook_ He’s the one who keeps saying that Jews and Israel aren’t the same. It’s his pro-Israel critics who lump them together. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/208410241/26dcd9edd291e5dab034a9fff1a5fd07.mp3) ## [“People’s Feet Need to be Held to the Fire.”](https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/peoples-feet-need-to-be-held-to-the) _2026-07-26 · Peter Beinart · The Beinart Notebook_ Ben Rhodes and Yousef Munayyer on the Democratic Party’s transformation on Israel-Palestine [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/208393796/c3f9eb3d969c4214b01721e43f0dc319.mp3) ## [Luck All the Way Down (Ep. 486)](https://samharris.substack.com/p/luck-all-the-way-down-ep-486) _2026-07-24 · Sam Harris · Sam Harris_ A Conversation with Kathryn Paige Harden [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/208076017/99cb40b3902fef55bfc894a2b69d796c.mp3) ## [#486 — Luck All the Way Down](https://wakingup.libsyn.com/486-luck-all-the-way-down) _2026-07-22 · Making Sense with Sam Harris_ Sam Harris speaks with Kathryn Paige Harden about behavioral genetics, moral luck, and the problem of blame. They discuss Harden's book Original Sin , the controversy over Charles Murray and Ezra Klein, why behavioral genetics remains taboo, the meaning of heritability, nature and nurture as feedback loops, why biological explanations can increase blame, psychopathy as a continuum, a hypothetical… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/486_MS_Paige_Harden_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596) ## [Hire AI-Powered Professionals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/w4fspdd9pmto) _2026-07-22 · **Sponsored**_ Browse public gigs, message candidates, and run video interviews — free to start. ## [What Kids Need That AI Can’t Give](https://poojalakshmin.substack.com/p/what-kids-need-that-ai-cant-give) _2026-07-17 · Pooja Lakshmin MD · Real Self-Care with Pooja Lakshmin_ Pediatric surgeon Dana Suskind on why "human raised" is no longer guaranteed. ## [The New Science of Cancer (Ep. 485)](https://samharris.substack.com/p/the-new-science-of-cancer-ep-485) _2026-07-14 · Sam Harris · Sam Harris_ A Conversation with Siddhartha Mukherjee [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207048822/7d1af42773e9c18698d388615f93cfdd.mp3) ## [#485 — The New Science of Cancer](https://wakingup.libsyn.com/485-the-new-science-of-cancer) _2026-07-14 · Making Sense with Sam Harris_ Sam Harris speaks with Siddhartha Mukherjee about the science of cancer. They discuss the updated edition of The Emperor of All Maladies , whether cancer is one disease or many, why prevention is so hard, inflammation and air pollution as carcinogens, the myth that cell phones cause cancer, liquid biopsies and Bayesian reasoning, immunotherapy and CAR T cells, drug pricing, the promise of AI in… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/485_MS_Siddhartha_Mukherjee_subscriber.mp3?dest-id=480596) ## [The Value of Sharing Waking Up](https://samharris.substack.com/p/the-value-of-sharing-waking-up-727) _2026-07-09 · Sam Harris · Sam Harris_ Many of you know me primarily through my writing and the Making Sense podcast... ## [Taking my own advice before I burn out](https://poojalakshmin.substack.com/p/taking-my-own-advice-before-burnout) _2026-07-09 · Pooja Lakshmin MD · Real Self-Care with Pooja Lakshmin_ Why I asked my publisher for more time, and what finally made me do it. ## [Artificial Intimacy (Ep. 484)](https://samharris.substack.com/p/artificial-intimacy) _2026-07-08 · Sam Harris · Sam Harris_ A Conversation with Paul Bloom [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/205985758/5d0a506eacc29e54ead63bfe01568337.mp3) ## [#484 — Artificial Intimacy](https://wakingup.libsyn.com/484-artificial-intimacy) _2026-07-08 · Making Sense with Sam Harris_ Sam Harris speaks with Paul Bloom about our relationships with AI and the future of human connection. They discuss the surprising pace of AI progress, AI companions as a remedy for loneliness, the importance of mattering to other people, digitally resurrecting the dead, whether AI can be conscious, the moral failings of artists, what science actually knows about parenting, the ethics of apology,… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/484_MS_Paul_Bloom_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596) ## [The Knots We Tie Ourselves Into (Ep. 483)](https://samharris.substack.com/p/the-knots-we-tie-ourselves-into-ep) _2026-07-01 · Sam Harris · Sam Harris_ A Conversation with Alain de Botton [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/204353694/ef1e05d7d398ed89f7ba732501521422.mp3) ## [#483 — The Knots We Tie Ourselves Into](https://wakingup.libsyn.com/483-the-knots-we-tie-ourselves-into) _2026-07-01 · Making Sense with Sam Harris_ Sam Harris speaks with Alain de Botton about the psychology of unhappiness, the secular world's discomfort with ecstasy and ritual, psychedelics as a tool for self-discovery, Freud's legacy, AI as the ultimate mirror, the case against meritocracy, the cancel culture purity trap, the psychological meaning of death, and other topics. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/482_MS_Alain_deBotton_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596) ## [More From Sam: The Iran Deal, College in the AI Age, Mamdani’s DSA, and More (Ep. 482)](https://samharris.substack.com/p/more-from-sam-the-iran-deal-college) _2026-06-25 · Sam Harris · Sam Harris_ In this latest episode of the More From Sam series, Sam and Jaron talk about current events. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/203592517/cda987a5ac7487198bb149c98474ff5c.mp3) ## [Web Coding With AI, Live (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/XhQOH4n9gXLj) _2026-06-25 · **Sponsored**_ Collaborative screen sharing with simultaneous remote control, open source. ## [#482 — More From Sam: The Iran Deal, College in the AI Age, Mamdani's DSA, and More](https://wakingup.libsyn.com/482-more-from-sam-the-iran-deal-college-in-the-ai-age-mamdanis-dsa-and-more) _2026-06-25 · Making Sense with Sam Harris_ In this latest episode of the More From Sam series, Sam and Jaron talk about current events. They discuss topics from Making Sense Community, including one-world government, the value of a degree as AI reshapes careers, and factory farming ethics, along with Mamdani's DSA-aligned candidates, Trump's humiliating capitulation in the Iran deal, the Tulsi Gabbard guru story, and other topics. If the… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/482_MFS_6-25-26_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596) ## [Sam Harris Receives the 2026 Richard Dawkins Award (Ep. 481)](https://samharris.substack.com/p/sam-harris-receives-the-2026-richard) _2026-06-17 · Sam Harris · Sam Harris_ Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins in Conversation [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/202459247/5fc8ed2e6c2ad4c1d09aeb1496e60e5c.mp3) ## [#481 — Sam Harris Receives the 2026 Richard Dawkins Award](https://wakingup.libsyn.com/481-sam-harris-receives-the-2026-richard-dawkins-award) _2026-06-17 · Making Sense with Sam Harris_ Richard Dawkins presents Sam Harris with the 2026 Richard Dawkins Award at a live Center for Inquiry event. After the tribute, the two friends discuss consciousness and epiphenomenalism, AI and the Turing test, the scientific basis of morality, the failures of democracy and Trump's corruption, the role of philosophy, changing deeply held beliefs, Sam's path to meditation, the legacy of Christopher… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/481_MS_Richard_Dawkins_subscriber.mp3?dest-id=480596) ## [Power 101: A Real Self-Care Principle](https://poojalakshmin.substack.com/p/power-101-a-real-self-care-principle) _2026-06-17 · Pooja Lakshmin MD · Real Self-Care with Pooja Lakshmin_ Claiming what's yours and remaking the system. ## [#480 — The Economics of Everything](https://wakingup.libsyn.com/480-the-economics-of-everything) _2026-06-12 · Making Sense with Sam Harris_ Sam Harris speaks with economist and Substack writer Noah Smith about the U.S. national debt, wealth inequality, and the economic consequences of AI. They discuss the mechanics of debt and inflation, the case for fiscal austerity, why the U.S. squandered low interest rates, modern monetary theory, how AI may restructure labor and ownership, the anti-billionaire politics of the American left, the… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/wakingup/480_MS_Noah_Smith_paywall.mp3?dest-id=480596) ## [There is no quick fix for big change](https://poojalakshmin.substack.com/p/there-is-no-quick-fix-for-big-change) _2026-06-03 · Pooja Lakshmin MD · Real Self-Care with Pooja Lakshmin_ But there is one skill to help you through it. ## [Dear Pooja: How do I do self-care when my mental health makes everything harder?](https://poojalakshmin.substack.com/p/dear-pooja-how-to-do-self-care-when) _2026-05-20 · Pooja Lakshmin MD · Real Self-Care with Pooja Lakshmin_ Three big times our habits fall apart — and how to fight back. ## [I've decided to grow up as an author](https://poojalakshmin.substack.com/p/ive-decided-to-grow-up-as-an-author) _2026-05-06 · Pooja Lakshmin MD · Real Self-Care with Pooja Lakshmin_ Leaving my messiness behind and standing in my success. ## [Answering 3 hard questions about how to carry on right now](https://poojalakshmin.substack.com/p/answering-3-hard-questions-about) _2026-04-24 · Pooja Lakshmin MD · Real Self-Care with Pooja Lakshmin_ Here’s what I’ve got. ## [Help me shape what comes next for this space](https://poojalakshmin.substack.com/p/help-me-shape-what-comes-next-for) _2026-04-22 · Pooja Lakshmin MD · Real Self-Care with Pooja Lakshmin_ Share a little about yourself for a chance to receive a gift. ## [Pooja's Picks: Spring Book Recommendations](https://poojalakshmin.substack.com/p/poojas-picks-spring-book-recommendations) _2026-04-09 · Pooja Lakshmin MD · Real Self-Care with Pooja Lakshmin_ Five books I'm excited about. ## [Making Sense of Super Mario Movies Failing in China](https://danielcamilo.substack.com/p/making-sense-of-super-mario-movies) _2026-04-08 · Daniel Camilo · Gaming in China_ Ryan Gosling just beat Nintendo’s biggest icon at the box office ## [Think Crimson Desert Is Impressive? Wait Until China Makes It Free](https://danielcamilo.substack.com/p/think-crimson-desert-is-impressive) _2026-03-29 · Daniel Camilo · Gaming in China_ "Hold my beer" moments have defined Chinese game dev in recent years. ## [Xbox Shows Signs of Life in China with New Partnership](https://danielcamilo.substack.com/p/xbox-and-netease-partnership-for) _2026-02-03 · Daniel Camilo · Gaming in China_ Partnership with NetEase provides a boost for the Chinese New Year... ## [The Structural Illusion](https://the1020.substack.com/p/the-structural-illusion) _2026-01-23 · Ralph Schoellhammer · Ralph’s Substack_ Why European Leverage Against Washington Is a Mirage ## [America follows an old playbook.](https://the1020.substack.com/p/america-follows-an-old-playbook) _2026-01-16 · Ralph Schoellhammer · Ralph’s Substack_ It's not back to the future but forward into the past ## [Chinese Gaming Has a Problem!](https://danielcamilo.substack.com/p/chinese-gaming-has-a-problem) _2025-12-12 · Daniel Camilo · Gaming in China_ Several Chinese games showed up at The Game Awards, but can anyone tell them apart? ## [Gaming Makes Its Own Rules In China](https://danielcamilo.substack.com/p/gaming-makes-its-own-rules-in-china) _2025-11-07 · Daniel Camilo · Gaming in China_ CD Projekt Red and RedNote collaboration in Shanghai exposes how inconsequential many gaming regulations are in the country ## [Return of an Icon to a Market That’s Moved On](https://danielcamilo.substack.com/p/return-of-an-icon-to-a-market-thats) _2025-11-03 · Daniel Camilo · Gaming in China_ StarCraft 2 has returned to China, but does it still matter? ## [Chinese Publishing Licenses - Big Names, Small Impact](https://danielcamilo.substack.com/p/chinese-publishing-licenses-big-names) _2025-09-24 · Daniel Camilo · Gaming in China_ Why approval for Astro Bot, Split Fiction, and Dave the Diver matters less than you think.