Making Sense with Sam Harris · 2026-01-21 · 17 min · 3,390 words

#454 — More From Sam: Minnesota, Greenland, Iran, S**thole Countries, and More

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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. We don't run ads on the podcast, and therefore it's made possible entirely through the support of our subscribers.

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Once again, I just want to quickly remind everyone that you will be giving talks in a number of cities in North America this year. This week we have LA, which is sold out. Congrats. That'll be fun. And then coming up we have Dallas, Austin, Portland, Vancouver, Toronto, DC, and ending in New York City again.

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