#370 — Gender Apartheid and the Future of Iran

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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In today’s housekeeping, Sam explains his digital business model. He and Yasmine Mohammed (co-host) then speak with Masih Alinejad about gender apartheid in Iran. They discuss the Iranian revolution, the hypocrisy of Western feminists, the morality police and the significance of the hijab, the My Stealthy Freedom campaign, kidnapping and assassination plots against Masih, lack of action from the U.S. government, the effect of sanctions, the cowardice of Western journalists, the difference between the Iranian population and the Arab street, the unique perspective of Persian Jews, Islamism and immigration, the infiltration of universities, and other topics.

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0:00.0	And the Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast,
0:13.0	This is Sam Harris.
0:25.0	Well, I launched my own sub-stack last week.
0:30.0	I'm now officially in both podcastistan and Sub-Stakistan.
0:34.0	So for those of you who support the podcast and
0:38.0	may also be subscribed to waking up,
0:40.0	I wanted to clarify what I'm doing over on Substack.
0:44.0	As I said in my announcement, I wanted to get back to writing, while speaking is easier and reaches
0:49.8	more people and is a better business, writing is a discipline that improves everything I do.
0:57.6	So Substack will essentially be my workshop for writing, but it will also be a place for me to quickly respond to current events and
1:05.4	amplify other people's work across a larger network, which is what I actually miss having
1:11.8	left Twitter.
1:13.0	I might start writing a book over there and solicit feedback from readers.
1:18.0	I might eventually commission the work of other writers and scholars and fund some original research.
1:24.0	I'm told the sub-stack is also building the capacity to stream live video,
1:28.0	which I'm looking forward to experimenting with.
1:30.0	But whatever happens, I'm going to do my best to create something interesting there.
1:35.0	However, if it doesn't succeed as a business, it won't make sense for me to stay there.
1:40.0	As I've discussed on this podcast before, no one knows what the best digital business model is, and what seems right today could be disastrous in the future.
1:51.0	The truth is no one has figured this out even if some of us are
1:55.1	succeeding financially and yet I believe I've found the best business model
1:59.9	available. However when we announced my arrival on Substack last week, some of you got annoyed at
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