#395 — Intellectual Authority and Its Discontents

Welcome to the Makin Sense podcast. This is Sam Harris. First, I have an announcement to make. We are making a simple but important change to the platform over here. We're combining the Making Sense podcast with my Substack newsletter.

There are several reasons for this, but the main one is that it will just be better for everyone. It'll be better for you because you'll be able to get everything I produce in audio, video, and print with one subscription, and it will be better for me because I won't be pulled in two directions, needing to create content for separate audiences divided by a paywall. Going forward, I'll decide whether something's best done in audio, video, or print. or some combination of the three, and then just send it out to everyone. Substack also hosts podcasts, so we'll eventually put my audio and video there too, and it has live video that I'll experiment with at some point.

So if you're currently an annual subscriber to both the podcast and the newsletter, that is, you are paying for the Making Sense podcast through my website, and you are paying for the newsletter over at Substack, we'll be reaching out to you by email to say that we've consolidated your subscription. And of course you'll see reduced pricing. There shouldn't be anything you need to do on your end, because you already have access to everything. And we'll delay renewing your subscription at the lower price so you'll get some free months added to your account.

We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript (31 minutes, 4,964 words), segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.

No account needed, we create one from your checkout email. With credits it is 1 credit; packs start at 5 episodes for $3.49, and monthly plans are cheaper still.