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.
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#224 — The Key to Trump's Appeal
#223 — A Conversation with Andrew Sullivan
#222 — A Pandemic of Incompetence
#221 — Success, Failure, & the Common Good
#220 - The Information Apocalypse
#219 — The Power of Compassion
#218 — Welcome to the Cult Factory
#217 — The New Religion of Anti-Racism
#216 — A Conversation with Graeme Wood
#215 — A Conversation with David Miliband
#214 — A Conversation with Siddhartha Mukherjee
#213 — The Worst Epidemic
#212 — A Conversation with Kathryn Paige Harden
#211 — The Nature of Human Nature
#210 — The Logic of Doomsday
#209 — A Good Life
#208 — Existential Risk
#207 — Can We Pull Back From The Brink?
#206 — A Conversation with David Frum
#205 — The Failure of Meritocracy
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