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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Why the coronavirus is so deadly for black America
2020-05-11 • 1h 22min
Jenny Odell on nature, art, and burnout in quarantine
2020-05-07 • 1h 8min
An unusually honest conversation about wielding political power
2020-05-04 • 1h 26min
What should the media learn from coronavirus?
2020-04-30 • 1h 36min
Bill Gates’s vision for life beyond coronavirus
2020-04-27 • 54min
An epic conversation with Madeline Miller
2020-04-23 • 1h 22min
The loneliness pandemic/Betraying “essential workers”
2020-04-20 • 49min
Why Bernie Sanders lost and how progressives can still win
2020-04-16 • 1h 41min
Scott Gottlieb on how, and when, to end social distancing
2020-04-13 • 50min
Toby Ord on existential risk, Donald Trump, and thinking in probabilities
2020-04-09 • 1h 26min
Elizabeth Warren has a plan for this, too
2020-04-06 • 53min
What social solidarity demands of us in a pandemic
2020-04-02 • 1h 7min
Coronavirus has pushed US-China relations to their worst point since Mao
2020-03-30 • 1h 1min
Is the cure worse than the disease?
2020-03-26 • 1h 7min
An economic crisis like we’ve never seen
2020-03-23 • 1h 25min
"The virus is more patient than people are"
2020-03-19 • 1h 20min
A master class in organizing
2020-03-16 • 2h 2min
Weeds 2020: The coronavirus election
2020-03-14 • 54min
Dan Pfeiffer on Joe Biden, beating Trump, and saving democracy
2020-03-12 • 1h 38min
Are you a "political hobbyist?" If so, you're the problem.
2020-03-09 • 1h 25min
What would a Sanders or Biden presidency look like?
2020-03-05 • 1h 15min
Rebecca Solnit on Harvey Weinstein, feminism, and social change
2020-03-02 • 1h 47min
Weeds 2020: The Bernie electability debate
2020-02-29 • 58min
Tracy K. Smith changed how I read poetry
2020-02-27 • 1h 29min
Barbara Ehrenreich on UBI, class conflict, and collective joy
2020-02-24 • 1h 8min
What Donald Trump got right about white America
2020-02-20 • 1h 14min
Ta-Nehisi Coates on my “cold, atheist book”
2020-02-17 • 1h 15min
If God is dead, then … socialism?
2020-02-13 • 1h 5min
Tim Urban on humanity’s wild future
2020-02-10 • 1h 30min
Jill Lepore on what I get wrong
2020-02-06 • 1h 25min
Is Tom Steyer the solution to our dysfunctional politics?
2020-02-03 • 1h 6min
Why We're Polarized, with Jamelle Bouie (live!)
2020-01-30 • 1h 16min
Antisemitism now, antisemitism then
2020-01-27 • 1h 31min
Book excerpt: A better theory of identity politics
2020-01-23 • 1h 4min
The war on Muslims (with Mehdi Hasan)
2020-01-20 • 1h 30min
Post-debate special!
2020-01-16 • 1h 19s
An “uncomfortable” conversation with Cory Booker
2020-01-13 • 1h 33min
The conservative mind of Yuval Levin
2020-01-09 • 1h 21min
How an epidemic begins and ends
2020-01-08 • 37min
Nathan Robinson’s case for socialism
2020-01-06 • 1h 43min
How to topple dictators and transform society (with Erica Chenoweth)
2020-01-02 • 47min
Ask Ezra Anything
2019-12-30 • 1h 34min
Best of: Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle
2019-12-26 • 1h 17min
Republicans vs. the planet
2019-12-23 • 1h 43min
The geoengineering question
2019-12-19 • 1h 16min
How to solve climate change and make life more awesome
2019-12-16 • 1h 36min
Paul Krugman on climate, robots, single-payer, and so much more
2019-12-12 • 1h 30min
The moral philosophy of The Good Place (with Mike Schur and Pamela Hieronymi)
2019-12-09 • 1h 44min
When doing the right thing makes you a criminal
2019-12-05 • 1h 45min
Peter Singer on the lives you can save
2019-12-02 • 1h 19min