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Dec 2016
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#55 — Islamism vs Secularism

SAM HARRIS
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Sam Harris speaks with Shadi Hamid about the power of religious belief, the failure of the Left, Islamist democracy, free speech, profiling, white nationalism, Obama's foreign policy and other topics.

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