Conversations with Coleman What Keeps Sam Harris Up At Night
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Mar 23, 2026 
Sam Harris, neuroscientist and philosopher known for probing ethics and risk, discusses the biggest dangers facing civilization. He unpacks jihadist threats paired with nuclear weapons. He examines misinformation, rising antisemitism, and the role of conspiratorial media. He also touches on social media harms, declining birth rates, and AI and pandemic risks.
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Defending Israel As Defending Liberal Societies
- Harris frames defending Israel as defending an open, high-performing society against jihadist enemies rather than a special-case moral favor.
- He compares Israel's situation to defending Denmark after an atrocity to illustrate equivalent standards of response.
Why Anti‑Zionism Often Equals Anti‑Semitism
- Harris says anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism are logically distinct but practically overlapping; most anti-Zionists, he believes, are anti-Semitic.
- He cites disproportionate UN focus on Israel and global fixation on the Jewish state as evidence.
Online Conspiracism Fuels Modern Anti‑Semitism
- Harris notes anti-Semitic conspiracism has surged on the right partly because online gatekeepers vanished, exposing latent beliefs.
- He links conspiratorial media, independent podcasts, and figures like Tucker Carlson to this spread.