#345 — Resilience

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

Samharris, Currentevents, Politics, Ethics, Religion, Neuroscience, Science, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 29.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

Sam Harris speaks with Amanda Knox about her experience of having been falsely convicted and imprisoned for murder in Italy.

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0:00.0	And the Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris.
0:25.0	Today I'm speaking with Amanda Knox.
0:28.0	Amanda is a journalist and public speaker
0:32.0	and author of the New York Times best-selling memoir Waiting to Be Heard.
0:36.8	She is also a co-host with her husband Christopher Robinson of the podcast Labyrinth.
0:43.0	Between 2007 and 2015,
0:47.0	a man has spent nearly four years in an Italian prison
0:51.0	and eight years on trial for a murder that she did not commit.
0:56.0	She has since become an advocate for criminal justice reform and media ethics,
1:01.0	and she sits on the board of the Frederick Douglas Project for Justice.
1:05.0	Anyway it was great to speak to Amanda as you'll hear she's created a series for us
1:10.0	on resilience over to waking up.
1:13.0	And I just find her story,
1:15.0	both harrowing and fascinating by turns.
1:18.0	It's very instructive of a larger sociological phenomenon which seems to rule our world at present.
1:27.0	When she was at the epicenter of it, social media was just taking off, but now in the open waters of misinformation and reputational destruction in which we all
1:37.4	now swim, Amanda really strikes me as one of the canaries in the coal mine that we didn't recognize at the time.
1:45.9	And now I bring you Amanda Knox. I am here with Amanda Knox.
1:55.0	Amanda, thanks for joining me.
1:57.0	Thanks for having me.
1:58.0	So you've created a wonderful series for us over at Waking Up on Resilience and your qualifications to produce such a series will soon become apparent.
2:10.0	We're not going to duplicate what you did there. I'm sure we'll talk about
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