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A Deep Dive into the Harris-Klein Controversy – Everything Studies

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A long postmortem of the conflict between Sam Harris and Ezra Klein over Harris’s podcast with political scientist Charles Murray. I explain their disagreement as stemming from differences in…

Some weeks ago I stumbled upon a link to a collection of emails between Sam Harris and Ezra Klein. The two argued about an article that Klein’s site Vox had published in response to Harris’s podcast with controversial political scientist Charles Murray. While starting relatively well, it got worse. Whatever good will was there in the beginning had run out by the end, spent on failed attempts to get on the same page. This sort of thing happens a lot, of course, but this was special: two intelligent, rational authors baffled about each other’s behavior in a disastrous misunders

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