Making Sense with Sam Harris · 2026-10-01 · 18 min · 3,295 words

#495 — Foreign Policy for Sale

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Ann, it's great to see you again. Thanks for having me. I must confess I I I bring you on because you know, you're one of the great observers of the unraveling of America and and our stature on the world stage, but Also, um I really always have a covert agenda.

hoping you will perform psychic surgery on a few primary relationships i in my life where I just I'm I've got some very close friends who have been unconcerned all the while about uh what is happening in America and I have not gotten through to them and I I keep hoping you will. You're really the um

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