#199 — A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 24 April 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris and Caitlin Flanagan discuss the ethics of abortion, the fact that universities with immense endowments are laying off staff during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Woody Allen autobiography, the moral hypocrisy of Hollywood, the lessons of "Tiger King," and other topics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense podcast.
0:08.0	This is Sam Harris.
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0:42.8	No questions asked.
0:47.3	I am back with Caitlin Flanagan.
0:49.3	Caitlin, thanks for joining me again.
0:51.1	Thanks so much for having me again.
0:52.9	So let's see here.
0:58.1	I guess I'll just fly.
0:59.1	You have an article coming out in the Atlantic that we can't speak about yet because it's
1:03.7	currently embargoed as things occasionally are.
1:07.2	And so we'll get to that next time.
1:09.9	And people will marvel at our restraint in this conversation.
1:14.2	They already do.
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