Sam Harris

Born: 1967-04-09

Sam Harris is the author of the bestselling books The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying, and Waking Up. The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. His writing and public lectures cover a wide range of topics—neuroscience, moral philosophy, religion, spirituality, violence, human reasoning—but generally focus on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live.  Mr. Harris and his work have been discussed in  The New York Times, Time, Scientific American, Nature,Rolling Stone, and many other journals. He has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Economist, The Times (London), The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The Annals of Neurology, among others. His work has been published in more than 15 languages.  Mr. Harris is a cofounder and the CEO of  Project Reason, a nonprofit foundation devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in society. He received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.


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Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things

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Released: 2015-09-26

How might your life be better with less? The popular simple-living duo The Minimalists examines...

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The Unbelievers

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Released: 2013-12-13

Scientists Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss travel the globe promoting a scientific worldview...

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The God Who Wasn't There

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Released: 2005-05-21

Did Jesus exist? This film starts with that question, then goes on to examine Christianity as a...

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Blood on the Sun

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Released: 1945-04-26

Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world...

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Islam and the Future of Tolerance

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Released: 2018-12-11

In the thick of a controversial war of ideas, two enlightening figures, Sam Harris, an atheist...

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Holy Wars

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Released: 2010-01-01

Take one Muslim advocate for global jihad and put him in a room with one conservative Christian...

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Discussions with Richard Dawkins, Episode 1: The Four Horsemen

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Released: 2008-01-10

Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens sits down for an...

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Waking Up

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Released: 2015-01-06

In the fall of 2014, Sam Harris staged a series of live events—in Los Angeles, New York, and San...

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Real Time with Bill Maher

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First aired: 2003-02-21

Each week Bill Maher surrounds himself with a panel of guests which include politicians, actors,...

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StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

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First aired: 2015-04-20

Host Neil deGrasse Tyson brings together celebrities, scientists and comedians to explore a...

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