Many of these dangers could be enabled by near-term scientific & technological developments. In this, my first two-part episode (Part Two is coming up on Thursday), Naval and I particularly on focus…

Mr. Yang’s presidential campaign has catapulted out of obscurity thanks in part to a devoted online following, including some fans he’d rather not have.

Radical Islamists and radical leftists have seized on the Christchurch tragedy to push their own hateful agendas.

The Berggruen Institute welcomes nominations for the 2019 Berggruen Prize. The $1 million lifetime achievement award is given annually to a thinker whose ideas are of broad significance in shaping…

In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Nick Bostrom about the problem of existential risk. They discuss public goods, "the vulnerable world hypothesis," the history of…

In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Daniel Kahneman at the Beacon Theatre in NYC. They discuss the replication crisis in science, where intuitions reliably fail, the…

Readers, not a Twitter mob, should decide the fate of a book.

In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Sally Satel about addiction. They discuss whether addiction should be considered a disease, the opiate epidemic in the U.S., the…

[This post is having major technical issues. Some comments may not be appearing. If you can’t comment, please say so on the subreddit.] I. I Come To Praise Caesar, Not To Bury Him Several yea…

The insects were created, using CRISPR, to carry a powerful "gene drive." The mosquitoes could provide a potent weapon against malaria, but they raise fears about unpredictable environmental effects.

Inside the four-month campaign targeting the world’s richest man.

Should we punish fraudulent victims as vigorously as real criminals? Faked hate crimes such as Jussie Smollett’s impact how we view genuine attacks

The first two paragraphs are from us — and then the OpenAI program wrote the rest.

For years, an anonymous narrator extolled the Islamic State’s brutality in videos seen around the world. “I don’t regret it,” a Canadian captured in Syria says.

Sam Harris describes the properties of consciousness and how mindfulness practices of all stripes can be used to transcend one's ego. Harris is the author of...

Sam’s been busy, as I thought, but he did take the time to answer the question that I asked this morning: “Is New Atheism dead?” His answer is below, and so we have three of the …

This blog post draws on data and research discussed in our entry on Child Mortality.

KANSAS CITY, MO—After a biopsy determined a tumor removed from his kidney was benign, local 28-year-old Andrew Keller was reportedly reassured by doctors Wednesday that he still had quite a few years…

Andrew Yang is an American entrepreneur, the founder of Venture for America, and a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate.

Manhattan Institute senior fellow Jason Riley joined Brown University’s Glenn Loury to discuss Dr. Loury’s upcoming Manhattan Institute working paper, follow...

In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Jack Dorsey about how he manages his dual CEO roles at Square and Twitter, the role that Twitter places in journalism, the logic by which Twitter…

Native to central and southern Europe, the amphibious alpine newt breeds in shallow water, where its larvae are born, hatch and feed on plankton, before sprouting legs and moving to land. This…