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Sam Harris
Sam Harris is the author of the bestselling books, The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying, Waking Up, and Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue (with Maajid Nawaz). The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction.Mr. Harris's writing... show more



Sam Harris is the author of the bestselling books, The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying, Waking Up, and Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue (with Maajid Nawaz). The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction.Mr. Harris's writing has been published in more than 20 languages. His work has been discussed in The New York Times, Time, Scientific American, Nature, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and many other journals. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Economist, Newsweek, The Times (London), The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The Annals of Neurology, and elsewhere.Mr. Harris received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.

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Birth date: January 01, 1967
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kingsoupnut
kingsoupnut rated it 8 years ago
'Liberals imagine that jihadists and islamists are acting as anyone else would given a similar history of unhappy encounters with the West. And they totally discount the role that religious beliefs play in inspiring a group like the Islamic State - to the point where it would be impossible for a jih...
The Symmetrical Bookworm
The Symmetrical Bookworm rated it 9 years ago
This is a short little book (only about 90-100 pages) that makes a great case against religion. To be completely honest, I may be biased as I was already an atheist, but even still I think the points in this book were well-written, reasonable, and intelligent. Although most of the arguments are ad...
Bloodorange
Bloodorange rated it 9 years ago
I've been wanting to read an informative book about the politics of Islam for a while now, and I'm ready to assume (perhaps somewhat lazily) that this slim volume was the thing. It does not offer an analysis of Islam as such, it does not present the religion; instead, it gives a view of its place i...
Emad Attely [The Book Nerd]
Emad Attely [The Book Nerd] rated it 9 years ago
There are many good points in this book.And, on the other hand, there is a huge amount of bullshit!This book, in my opinion, is full of meaningless ideas and false accusations. Sam Harris apparently doesn't mean understand Islam or even religion for that matter. I felt that he read the Koran just to...
Nithou's Readings
Nithou's Readings rated it 10 years ago
Une réflexion intéressante sur la propension à mentir dans la société actuelle. L'essai s'intéresse grandement aux "white-lies", ces mensonges que l'on prononce tous pour éviter de blesser quelqu'un, ou cacher une situation gênante, et sur les problèmes qu'ils causent et qui pourraient être évités e...
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