[dionidium]

Harris was initially my least favorite of the Four Horsemen -- Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett -- but my opinion has completely changed over the last year. With Hitchens gone, he's playing the role of public intellectual better than anybody else I'm aware of right now. I highly recommend his podcast.

[gdilla]

I lost some respect for Harris when he tried to lay into Noam Chomsky and failed miserably http://www.alternet.org/books/what-happened-when-sam-harris-...

[dionidium]

I was able to make it through about half of that before the irrelevant mewling about "privileged powerful male elites in U.S. society" became too much for me.

If anybody is interested in what Harris actually had to say, they should go read it for themselves:

https://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-limits-of-discourse

[gdilla]

yeah, because that's a totally neutral take on what happened.