The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Gray Area with Sean Illing takes a philosophy-minded look at culture, technology, politics, and the world of ideas. Each week, we invite a guest to explore a question or topic that matters. From the the state of democracy, to the struggle with depression and anxiety, to the nature of identity in the digital age, each episode looks for nuance and honesty in the most important conversations of our time. New episodes drop every Monday.
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678 episoder
Al Franken on learning to be a politician
2017-06-20 • 58min
Zephyr Teachout on suing Trump, fighting corruption, and breaking monopolies
2017-06-13 • 1h 34min
Masha Gessen offers a plausible Trump-Russia theory
2017-06-06 • 1h 8min
Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism
2017-05-30 • 1h 9min
Yascha Mounk: Is Trump’s incompetence saving us from his illiberalism?
2017-05-23 • 1h 36min
Bryan Stevenson on why the opposite of poverty isn’t wealth, but justice
2017-05-16 • 1h 35min
Death, Sex, and Money’s Anna Sale on bringing empathy to politics
2017-05-09 • 55min
Cory Booker returns, live, to talk trust, Trump, and basic incomes
2017-05-04 • 1h 13min
VC Bill Gurley on transforming health care
2017-05-02 • 1h 15min
Elizabeth Warren on what Barack Obama got wrong
2017-04-25 • 49min
Cal Newport on doing Deep Work and escaping social media
2017-04-18 • 1h 25min
G. Willow Wilson on religion, comics, and modern myths
2017-04-11 • 1h 18min
Chris Hayes on the crisis of elites and the politics of order
2017-04-04 • 1h 45min
Tyler Cowen explains it all
2017-03-28 • 1h 36min
Molly Ball on whether facts matter in politics
2017-03-21 • 1h 19min
Denis McDonough on how to run the White House
2017-03-14 • 1h 24min
Cecile Richards on Planned Parenthood, labor organizing, and the Supreme Court
2017-03-07 • 1h 17min
Tim Ferriss on suffering, psychedelics, and spirituality
2017-03-02 • 1h 54min
Yuval Harari, author of “Sapiens,” on AI, religion, and 60-day meditation retreats
2017-02-28 • 1h 12min
Elizabeth Drew covered Watergate. Here's what she thinks of Trump.
2017-02-21 • 1h 14min
Avik Roy on why conservatives need to embrace diversity
2017-02-14 • 1h 34min
Kara Swisher gives a master class on reporting and interviewing
2017-02-07 • 1h 40min
David Miliband explains the global refugee crisis
2017-02-02 • 52min
Jennifer Lawless on why you — yes, you — should run for office
2017-01-31 • 1h 6min
JD Vance: the reluctant interpreter of Trumpism
2017-01-24 • 1h 45min
Keith Ellison: The Democratic National Committee has become the Democratic Presidential Committee, and that needs to end
2017-01-17 • 1h 6min
Elizabeth Kolbert: We have locked in centuries of climate change
2017-01-10 • 1h 24min
Sarah Kliff and Ezra Interview Obama About Obamacare
2017-01-06 • 1h 18min
You Ask, Ezra Answers
2017-01-03 • 1h 38min
Evelyn Farkas explains the crisis in Syria and the threat of Russia
2016-12-27 • 1h 23min
Tim Wu's interesting, unusual, fascinating life
2016-12-20 • 1h 34min
Ta-Nehisi Coates: "There’s not gonna be a happy ending to this story"
2016-12-14 • 1h 46min
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison on management, rationalism, and the enlightenment
2016-12-06 • 1h 32min
Award-winning chef José Andrés on cooking, creativity, and learning from the best
2016-11-29 • 1h 32min
Heather McGhee returns to talk Trump, race, and empathy
2016-11-22 • 1h 5min
Ron Brownstein: Clinton didn’t lose because of the white working class
2016-11-15 • 1h 9min
David Frum on the 2016 election, and the long decline of the GOP
2016-11-06 • 1h 37min
Deborah Tannen on gendered speech, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and you
2016-11-01 • 1h 35min
Joseph Stiglitz on broken markets, bad trade deals, and basic incomes
2016-10-25 • 1h 11min
Let's talk about Hillary Clinton's policy ideas, with Jonathan Cohn
2016-10-18 • 1h 15min
Francis Fukuyama on whether America's democracy is decaying
2016-10-11 • 1h 13min
Tyler Cowen interviews Ezra Klein about politics, media, and more
2016-10-06 • 1h 18min
The best conversation I’ve had about the election, with Molly Ball
2016-10-04 • 1h 14min
HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell on running Obamacare, Medicare, and Medicaid
2016-09-27 • 47min
Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is health
2016-09-20 • 1h 42min
Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump supporters
2016-09-13 • 1h 1min
Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning from games, and finding your online identity
2016-09-06 • 1h 36min
W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twitter, and fame
2016-08-30 • 1h 33min
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining consensus opinions
2016-08-23 • 1h 35min
Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conflicts
2016-08-16 • 1h 31min