#423 — “More From Sam”: Democracy, Populism, Wealth Inequality, News-Induced Anxiety, & Rapid Fire Questions
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Waking Up with Sam Harris
4.6 • 29.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In this latest episode of the “More From Sam” series, Sam and Jaron talk about current events and answer some of the questions you all submitted on Substack. They discuss Epstein’s “client list,” how to safeguard democracy, populism, wealth inequality, the allure of socialism, how to manage feeling overwhelmed by current events, and rapid fire questions.
Produced by Griffin Katz
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Making Sense podcast. This is Sam Harris. Just a note to say that if you're hearing this, you're not currently on our subscriber feed, and we'll only be hearing the first part of this conversation. In order to access full episodes of the Making Sense podcast, you'll need to subscribe |
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| 0:31.7 | becoming one. |
| 0:36.3 | Hi, everybody, and welcome to another episode of more from Sam. |
| 0:40.8 | Sam, how's it going? |
| 0:42.2 | Good, good. How are you doing? |
| 0:43.8 | I am good. I'm good. We had dinner last night, but I still have to ask you how you're doing. |
| 0:47.3 | Yeah, well, things could have changed in the meantime. |
| 0:49.8 | That's true. That's true. As a reminder to all the goal of this series is to get more from Sam on current events more often. I'm here to surface Sam's ideas and we'll be doing so. As always, with the input of subscribers, questions, and comments. Thank you guys for taking the time to share those with us. And lastly, the series is not meant to be a replacement for anything. It's simply, in addition to what Sam is already doing, |
| 1:11.4 | so if you don't enjoy it, don't worry, it's fine. One more thing before we get started, some |
| 1:16.2 | updates on Sam's upcoming tour. There are currently five shows on sale at the moment, New York, |
| 1:21.6 | Austin, Seattle, San Jose, and Chicago. I believe all those shows still have some tickets still available, although in some |
| 1:28.6 | markets, I think that number is pretty low. So if you want to see the show, you can head over |
| 1:33.5 | to Ticketmaster, search Sam Harris, or you can find the dates listed at samharris.org. Also, |
| 1:39.3 | it seems likely that we're going to be adding some dates in the future. So be on the lookout for |
| 1:43.2 | those. I'm thinking |
| 1:44.2 | maybe LA, maybe Texas somewhere. I don't know. If you have any suggestions, please make those |
| 1:49.3 | suggestions and we'll consider those. As a reminder, Sam will be delivering a prepared talk for the |
| 1:53.9 | first part and then he and I will sit down and do a version of this, more from Sam in the second |
| 1:57.8 | segment. While Sam will offer some disturbing insights, it will also |
| 2:01.2 | be hopeful. Is that right, Sam? I hope so. A lot can happen between now and that. |
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