Activists Capturing Institutions, Censorship and Twitter Toxicity, and Woke Untruths, with Sam Harris | Ep. 527

If Biden were living like Andrew Tate, if he was driving around in a Bugatti, if he had all kinds of homes we didn't know about, well, then, okay. Then some allegation of corruption might land in a way that would balance the scales against Trump.

In the specific case of... biological girls deciding that they're trans or non-binary, there is legitimate concern that social contagion is at least part of the story. You have lots of young girls, teenage girls and and tween girls, who decide they are no longer gender-conforming, and it's a kind of fad.

If we get Trump again as president, it will be because of the excesses of the far-left. That will be the thing that will drive even reasonable people to overlook the fact that he's painfully unqualified.

I don't think Biden has been fully captured by the far-left, but there's no question he's had to pander to the far-left to be the Democratic nominee in the first place—and he'll have to do it again, presumably, to seek the presidency in 2024. Although I do hold out some hope that we've seen the peak wokeism, and I think the pendulum might be swinging back.

Elon was a friend ... But I think Twitter has been obviously bad for him as a person. He's obviously addicted to it. He's behaving in ways that are starkly unethical.

I'm not a fan of Biden running again for the presidency. I hope he doesn't, although I... don't know who we would put in his place.

I've spent much more time on my podcast talking about and worrying about wokeism and identitarian moral panics on the left than I have spent time worrying about Trump and Trumpism.

I'm just amazed at what Twitter has done—not just to me but to society ... We've all been enrolled in a psychological experiment to which no one really has consented, and the results are not looking good.

I say as much against wokeism as I think virtually anyone on the right, and I say as much against Trumpism as virtually anyone on the left.

It's not so much that I hate Trump. It's really, you know, I don't hate him as a person; I hate the fact of him. I hate what he has done to our politics and to our society.

I would not be surprised if there were many unsavory things we might find out about Joe Biden on Hunter's laptop or somewhere else. But from what I think we know about him, he's a very different sort of person than Trump is. He is not a once-in-a-generation narcissist.