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Making Sense with Sam Harris · 2024-12-20 · 33 min · 5,937 words

#396 — The Way Forward

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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 will 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 at samharris.org. There you'll also find our scholarship program, where we offer free accounts to anyone who can't afford one.

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Oh, thanks for having me. So how would you describe your journalistic and political background before we jump into the deep end of the pool of democratic politics? Sure. You know, I I started uh writing a blog sort of in my spare time when I was a college student around 2001, 2002. graduated, worked for a kind of a small progressive magazine here in DC called The American Prospect for a number of years.

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