For today’s episode, we’re thrilled to share the most recent episode of our friend Sam Harris’s podcast, Making Sense.
Moral confusion is plaguing this moment like never before. It’s everywhere: from college campuses to congress. Sam, better than almost anyone, is able to speak to that confusion, with facts, nuance and moral clarity. Importantly, he doesn’t just visit this topic with the narrow lens of this particular war between Hamas and Israel, but with a bird’s eye view of history. But according to Sam, it’s not the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that matters so much right now, but rather the history—and enduring global problem—of jihadism. And that’s what this episode is about.
The episode, aptly titled, The Bright Line Between Good and Evil, is sobering, illuminating and well worth your time. Please listen.
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This was brilliant, and forgive me if I sound like a rube, but I hadn't heard of Sam Harris before listening to this while in my car on a long drive home from my daughter's college. I had no idea of Mr. Harris's previous TDS and his covid-laced authoritarian stances. Good thing, or else I might have completely skipped this. Here, his moral clarity shines through. It's a must listen/read for anyone that still finds themselves still vacillating over the assignment of blame.
I also have to say that when I noticed this would just be him speaking for an hour-long podcast, I thought I'd bail somewhere around the 20 minute mark, and yet he kept me riveted for the entirety. I love to know more about his process of sorting out these thoughts that kept my interest for so long.
Moral confusion to me is not being able to access highlighted excerpts of this monologue.