This week we’re joined by author and body healer, Resmaa Menakem. With the release of his new book, The Quaking of America, we discuss Black liberation (5:09), the ‘white-body supremacy’ of January 6th (7:41), the implications of America’s conservatism (20:08), why there’s a failure to communicate across the aisle (25:03), the pernicious paradigm that ‘white ... Show More
Jul 19
Actor Timothy Olyphant (‘Justified’) is Riding High
Timothy Olyphant has made a career out of masking the effort behind his effortless performances.He joins us on the heels of his recent turns in Lucky and The Five-Star Weekend. We talk about performing opposite Anya Taylor-Joy (3:53), his upbringing in Modesto, California (7:00), ... Show More
1h 18m
Jul 5
Danny McBride’s Delusions of Grandeur
From Kenny Powers (“Eastbound & Down”) to Jesse Gemstone (“The Righteous Gemstones”), Danny McBride has created some of the most vain, quintessentially American portraits of male dysfunction in recent memory. His debut short-story collection, Thrilling Tales of Modern Men, is an ... Show More
1h 12m
Sep 2019
#169 — Omens of a Race War
<p>Sam Harris speaks with Kathleen Belew about the white power movement in the United States. They discuss white supremacy, white nationalism, white separatism, the militia movement, "The Turner Diaries," the connection between the white power movement and war, the significance o ... Show More
43m 43s
Apr 2021
Resmaa Menakem — ‘Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence’
Across the past year, and now as the murder trial of Derek Chauvin unfolds with Minneapolis in fresh pain and turmoil, we return again to the grounding insights of Resmaa Menakem. He is a Minneapolis-based therapist and trauma specialist who activates the wisdom of elders, and ve ... Show More
50m 44s
Aug 2025
#429 — The New World Order
<p dir="ltr">Sam Harris speaks with Anne Applebaum about the erosion of democracy at home and abroad. They discuss the Sudanese civil war and the outside forces involved, America's retreat from global leadership, the impacts of USAID cuts, gerrymandering, the integrity of U.S. el ... Show More
26m 52s
May 2022
#281 — Western Culture and Its Discontents
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sam Harris speaks with Douglas Murray about his new book, "The War on the West." They discuss the problem of hyper partisanship on the Left and Right, the primacy of culture, Hunter Biden's laptop, the de-platforming of Trump and Alex Jones, the ... Show More
1h 11m
Sep 2016
The Dangers Of Life As An American 'Nobody'
Marc Lamont Hill untangles the decades of dysfunction that have led to recent racial flash-points in his latest book, Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond. He talks with Gene Demby about the book, and his support for one particu ... Show More
24m 34s
Jun 2019
#160 — The Revenge of History
<p>Sam Harris speaks with Michael Weiss and Yascha Mounk about the state of global politics. They discuss the rise of right-wing populism in Europe, the prospect that democracy could fail in the US, Trump's political instincts, the political liability of "wokeness," the Left's fa ... Show More
58m 7s