Dr. Sam Harris

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1,893 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2024 last heard 23 Aug

Dr. Sam Harris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Don Lemon Show · Sam Harris talks Trump, Democrats, and Racism in America · 23 Aug 2026 podcast

You just have to talk about things like reason and common sense and evidence and s science, right? voice-verified

So so and and if astrology ever became ascendant in our society, if you if you couldn't become president unless you took astrology seriously, you know, we could criticize all that without forming a political movement around being a non astrologer, right? voice-verified

So so I I just think there's some conceptual confusion. voice-verified

in defining voice-verified

atheism as a as a political identity, although it's it's understandable that voice-verified

That so many people have because you know atheism is voice-verified

you know, i it's it's certainly grown a lot in the last twenty years, but it y uh at the time I started writing that it was a it it was only a a a single digit percentage of Americans who would who would d d describe themselves as atheist and it was the only voice-verified

political identity that that guaranteed you had no political future in in America in particular. voice-verified

I mean I I'm certainly I'm not s shy about saying I'm an atheist, but it's it just doesn't contain much information. voice-verified

I'm an atheist voice-verified

With respect to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, because the o the only way you the only thing you need to do to be an atheist there is to reject the claim that any of those specific books were written or inspired or or channeled in some other way by the creator of the universe. voice-verified

Or that's the other one. voice-verified

So then how would you voice-verified

So then how would voice-verified

Well I well I I'm I'm doing my best to be a reasonable person whose whose convictions scale with good evidence and good arguments and and among my convictions are that voice-verified

That spirituality, for lack of a better name, is voice-verified

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an all too important project. voice-verified

I mean we we really th th there's th there are the further reaches of the continuum of human well being that we I I think we should all personally want to explore. voice-verified

And we should want to understand scientifically. voice-verified

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