Making Sense with Sam Harris · 2026-07-22 · 21 min · 3,948 words

#486 — Luck All the Way Down

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Paige, thanks for joining me. Thank you for having me. It's been a while. It's been six years. I know, which is like five minutes and in a lifetime. Yeah. The last six years. Crazy. Well, so I went uh as you know, I I I sent you an email yesterday Not wanting to ambush you with um my recent

uh adventures in in um reviewing our our previous podcast. So we we we spoke six years ago Basically, a full two years after this major controversy that I had with um Uh having had Charles Murray on my podcast talking about uh race and IQ that That anodyne topic that

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