#491 — The Suicide of the Left

Sam Harris speaks with journalist James Kirchick about the growing influence of the far left on Democratic Party politics. They discuss Kirchick's article 'The DSA Is a Parasite,' focusing on the Democratic Socialists of America's platform, foreign policy positions, and the strategy of entryism—running candidates as Democrats while holding fundamentally anti-Democratic views. The conversation covers the alliance between Islamists and the far left, the ideology of Third Worldism, and the candidacy of Zohran Mamdani, as well as broader issues of antisemitism on the left, polling on political violence, and Kirchick's departure from The New York Times.