In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Yuval Noah Harari about his new book “21 Lessons for the 21st Century.” They discuss the importance of meditation for his intellectual life, the primacy of stories, the need to revise our fundamental assumptions about human civilization, the threats to liberal democracy, a world without work, universal basic income, the virtues of nationalism, the implications of AI and automation, and other topics.
You can support the Waking Up Podcast and receive subscriber-only content at SamHarris.org/subscribe.
#378 — Digital Delusions
#377 — The Future of Psychedelic Medicine 2
#376 — How Democracies Fail
#375 — On the Attempted Assassination of President Trump
#374 — Consciousness and the Physical World
#373 — Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism
#372 — Life & Work
#371 — What the Hell Is Happening?
#370 — Gender Apartheid and the Future of Iran
#369 — Escaping Death
#368 — Freedom & Censorship
#367 — Campus Protests, Antisemitism, and Western Values
#366 — Urban Warfare 2.0
#365 — Reality Check
#364 — Facts & Values
#363 — Knowledge Work
#362 — Six Months of War
#361 — Sam Bankman-Fried & Effective Altruism
#360 — We Really Don’t Have Free Will?
#359 — Getting Used to It
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The Daily
Growth Mindset Psychology: The Science of Self-Improvement
Growth Mindset Podcast