In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Michael Sandel about the problem with meritocracy . They discuss the dark side of the concept of merit, the pernicious myth of the self-made man, the moral significance of luck, the backlash against "elites" and expertise, how we value human excellence, the connection between wealth and value creation, the ethics of the tax code, higher education as a sorting mechanism for a caste system, alternatives to 4-year colleges, and other topics.
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#348 — The Politics of Antisemitism
#347 — Finding Sanity in 2024
#346 — The Best Kept Secret In History?
#345 — Resilience
#344 — The War in Gaza
#343 — What Is "Islamophobia"?
#342 — Animal Minds & Moral Truths
#341 — Gaza & Global Order
#340 — The Bright Line Between Good and Evil
#339 — The Infernal Logic of Jihad
#338 — The Sin of Moral Equivalence
#337 — The Future of Psychedelic Medicine
#336 — The Roots of Identity Politics
#335 — A Postmortem on My Response to Covid
#334 — The Low-Trust Society
#333 — Sanity Check on Climate Change
#332 — Can We Contain Artificial Intelligence?
#331 — A Golden Age for Assholes
#330 — The Doomsday Machine
#329 — What Happened to the Republican Party?
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