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. From the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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A rabbi explains how to make sense of suffering
Why God can't solve our suffering problem
52 min
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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
46 min
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Bryan Stevenson on how America can heal
A conversation is about truth and reconciliation in America
75 min
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What a post-Trump Republican Party might look like
How Oren Cass is challenging conservative economic orthodoxy
76 min
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Free speech, safety, and ‘the letter’
Yascha Mounk and I discuss free speech, safety, and ‘the letter’
85 min
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The frightening fragility of America's politica...
Masha Gessen on whether American democracy can survive Donald Trump
63 min
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Can artificial intelligence be emotionally inte...
A fun conversation about emotional intelligence, machine learning, and AI
72 min
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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.
17 min
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Nicholas Carr on deep reading and digital thinking
How technology literally changes our brains
70 min
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Your questions, answered
Ask Ezra Anything 2020 edition
78 min
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Which country has the world's best healthcare s...
Ezekiel Emanuel on healthcare reform, coronavirus response and presidential leadership
68 min
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The transformative power of restorative justice
sujatha baliga on how to radically reimagine our criminal justice system
72 min
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Ross Douthat and I debate American decadence
Ross Douthat on American decline, utopian ambition, and the Catholic right
89 min
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A serious conversation about UFOs
A religion scholar on UFOs, belief systems, and purgatory
88 min
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A former prosecutor's case for prison abolition
Paul Butler on how our criminal justice system is broken — and how to fix it
64 min
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Why Ta-Nehisi Coates is hopeful
The award-winning author on police violence, protest, and "the public"
89 min
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Are humans fundamentally good? (with Rutger Bre...
Rutger Bregman on human nature, hierarchy, and hunter-gatherer societies
94 min
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From politician to priest
Why Lt. Governor Cyrus Habib is giving up elected office and joining the Jesuits
118 min
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Robert Frank's radical idea
Using contagion economics to solve our hardest problems
69 min
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Why “essential” workers are treated as disposable
Mary Kay Henry on essential jobs, organizing, and the future of work
66 min
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"The world’s scariest economist” on coronavirus...
Mariana Mazzucato on her "plan to fix capitalism".
79 min
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A mind-bending conversation about quantum mecha...
Sean Carroll answers my dumb quantum mechanics questions — and yours.
76 min
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Why the coronavirus is so deadly for black America
David R. Williams on the science behind Covid-19’s massive racial disparities
76 min
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Jenny Odell on nature, art, and burnout in quar...
A truly cathartic conversation with Jenny Odell
63 min