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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Race, policing, and the universal yearning for ...
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How to think about coronavirus risk in your life
Julia Marcus on how to make important life decisions in a pandemic
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Black Republicans, Donald Trump, and America's ...
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Andrew Yang on UBI, coronavirus, and his next j...
The 2020 candidate on how to fix the economy, and the government
83 min
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Why the hell did America invade Iraq?
The enduring relevance of America's disastrous Iraq invasion.
79 min
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How to decarbonize America — and create 25 mill...
The US has the technology to decarbonize by 2035. Here's a plan to do it.
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Isabel Wilkerson wants to change how we underst...
A new way of thinking about race and class
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What it would take to end child poverty in America
Rep. Barbara Lee on why rebuilding the economy means investing in our kids
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Hannah Gadsby on comedy, free speech, and livin...
How Hannah Gadsby's mind works
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What would Keynes do?
What the 20th century’s most influential economist can teach us about rebuilding the US economy
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A devastating indictment of the Republican Party
An insider perspective on the GOP’s march to Trumpism
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How inequality and white identity politics feed...
Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson on the conservative dilemma
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Best of: Jia Tolentino on what happens when lif...
The New Yorker writer explains how technology has transformed the very nature of human interaction
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Dadding out with Mike Birbiglia
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A rabbi explains how to make sense of suffering
Why God can't solve our suffering problem
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The crisis in the news
Margaret Sullivan on the disastrous state of local journalism -- and what we can do about it
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Bryan Stevenson on how America can heal
A conversation is about truth and reconciliation in America
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What a post-Trump Republican Party might look like
How Oren Cass is challenging conservative economic orthodoxy
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Free speech, safety, and ‘the letter’
Yascha Mounk and I discuss free speech, safety, and ‘the letter’
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The frightening fragility of America's politica...
Masha Gessen on whether American democracy can survive Donald Trump
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Can artificial intelligence be emotionally inte...
A fun conversation about emotional intelligence, machine learning, and AI
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Danielle Allen on the radicalism of the America...
The Harvard political theorist on democracy, prison abolition, and the American founding
67 min
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Land of the Giants: The Netflix Effect
Land of the Giants is a podcast from our friends at Recode and the Vox Media Podcast Network that examines the most powerful tech companies of our time.
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Nicholas Carr on deep reading and digital thinking
How technology literally changes our brains
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Your questions, answered
Ask Ezra Anything 2020 edition
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