#395 — Intellectual Authority and Its Discontents

Sam Harris discusses the breakdown of trust in institutions, the
nature of intellectual authority, the danger of bad incentives,
the epidemic of conspiracy thinking and misinformation, Trump and
Elon, and other topics.


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