#482 — More From Sam: The Iran Deal, College in the AI Age, Mamdani's DSA, and More
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Waking Up with Sam Harris
4.6 • 29.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:24.8 | Welcome back to another episode of more from Sam. Hello, Sam. Hey, good to see you. Good to |
| 0:30.5 | see you as well. This time we're not taping live in front of subscribers. I'm traveling and |
| 0:34.9 | didn't want the stress of whether the internet would hold. So if you're |
| 0:38.0 | hearing this, obviously it did. Making Sense Community now has over 26,000 people in it, and it's |
| 0:44.3 | humming along nicely. I've really enjoyed many of the exchanges with so many thoughtful people there. |
| 0:49.5 | Everyone has been behaving, and I think it's because they too wanted to see this succeed, |
| 0:53.1 | and you've been getting some good feedback and pushback in there. It's definitely not been an echo chamber. No, no worries of that. |
| 1:01.6 | No, and you've been in there quite a bit yourself. It's almost like an Easter egg where I'm reading a |
| 1:06.6 | thread and then I see a comment from you. We don't have a follow feature and I think that works out |
| 1:11.1 | better because we didn't want to build this community to be dependent on you and it certainly hasn't |
| 1:15.9 | been. So for today's episode, I'm going to try something a little different. Rather than running down a |
| 1:20.5 | bunch of topics related to the news cycle, I'm going to grab a sampling from the posts in our community |
| 1:26.0 | and get you to comment on them here. We'll also get |
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