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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This changed how I think about love (with Alison Gopnik)
2019-06-13 • 1h 34min
The plan behind Elizabeth Warren’s plans
2019-06-10 • 54min
Michael Lewis reads my mind
2019-06-06 • 1h 43min
How Mitch McConnell convinced Michael Bennet to run for president
2019-06-03 • 1h 18min
How the brains of master meditators change
2019-05-30 • 1h 10min
Why good people are easily corrupted (with Lawrence Lessig)
2019-05-27 • 1h 24min
The art of attention (with Jenny Odell)
2019-05-23 • 1h 26min
Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housing crisis
2019-05-20 • 1h 5min
What kind of news is cable news? (With Brian Stelter)
2019-05-16 • 1h 27min
Contrapoints on taking the trolls seriously
2019-05-13 • 1h 21min
The purpose of political violence
2019-05-09 • 1h 21min
Ask Ezra Anything 3: Endgame
2019-05-06 • 1h 36min
The disillusionment of David Brooks
2019-05-02 • 1h 38min
Emily Oster schools me on parenthood
2019-04-29 • 57min
Lessons from Vox’s first 5 years
2019-04-25 • 1h 35min
Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle
2019-04-22 • 1h 24min
How social democrats won Europe — then lost it
2019-04-18 • 1h 9min
In defense of white-backlash politics
2019-04-15 • 1h 41min
Identity, nationalism, and fatherhood
2019-04-11 • 1h 48min
An ex-libertarian’s quest to rebuild the center right
2019-04-08 • 1h 26min
How whiteness distorts our democracy, with Eddie Glaude Jr.
2019-04-04 • 1h 31min
Pete Buttigieg’s theory of political change
2019-04-01 • 1h 2min
Meet the policy architect behind the Green New Deal
2019-03-28 • 1h 25min
The somewhat fractured state of American conservatism
2019-03-25 • 1h 3min
American politics after Christianity, with Ross Douthat
2019-03-21 • 1h 19min
Why Gov. Jay Inslee is running for president on climate change
2019-03-18 • 1h 8min
ICYMI: Julia Galef
2019-03-14 • 1h 34min
The roots of extremism, with Deeyah Khan
2019-03-11 • 1h 25min
ICYMI: Paul Krugman
2019-03-07 • 1h 39min
Pop music can make you smarter
2019-03-06 • 21min
Life after climate change, with David Wallace-Wells
2019-03-04 • 1h 14min
Pramila Jayapal thinks we can get to Medicare-for-All fast
2019-02-28 • 1h 8s
Noah Rothman on the "unjustice" of social justice politics
2019-02-25 • 1h 12min
Why should we care about deficits?
2019-02-21 • 1h 8min
Anniversary special: Rachel Maddow
2019-02-18 • 1h 43min
Andrew Sullivan and I work out our differences
2019-02-14 • 2h 7min
The core contradiction of American politics
2019-02-11 • 1h 9min
Leftists vs. liberals, with Elizabeth Bruenig
2019-02-07 • 1h 21min
The world according to Ralph Nader
2019-02-04 • 1h 26min
This conversation will change how you understand misogyny
2019-01-31 • 2h 16min
Ending the age of animal cruelty, with Bruce Friedrich
2019-01-28 • 1h 21min
Robert Sapolsky on the toxic intersection of poverty and stress
2019-01-24 • 1h 21min
Frances Lee on why bipartisanship is irrational
2019-01-21 • 1h 3min
Sean Decatur doesn’t see a free speech crisis on campus
2019-01-17 • 1h 20min
Cal Newport has an answer for digital burnout
2019-01-14 • 1h 11min
Eric Holder’s plan to save democracy
2019-01-10 • 1h 6min
Anil Dash on the biases of tech
2019-01-07 • 1h 22min
Jill Lepore on America’s two revolutions
2019-01-03 • 1h 35min
Best of: N.K. Jemisin
2018-12-31 • 1h 25min
Best-of: Bryan Stevenson
2018-12-27 • 1h 34min