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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Are humans fundamentally good? (with Rutger Bre...
Rutger Bregman on human nature, hierarchy, and hunter-gatherer societies
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From politician to priest
Why Lt. Governor Cyrus Habib is giving up elected office and joining the Jesuits
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Robert Frank's radical idea
Using contagion economics to solve our hardest problems
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Why “essential” workers are treated as disposable
Mary Kay Henry on essential jobs, organizing, and the future of work
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"The world’s scariest economist” on coronavirus...
Mariana Mazzucato on her "plan to fix capitalism".
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A mind-bending conversation about quantum mecha...
Sean Carroll answers my dumb quantum mechanics questions — and yours.
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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
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Jenny Odell on nature, art, and burnout in quar...
A truly cathartic conversation with Jenny Odell
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An unusually honest conversation about wielding...
Rep. Pramila Jayapal on stimulus negotiations, the economy, and progressive power.
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What should the media learn from coronavirus?
Coronavirus exposed weaknesses in our media ecosystem. Can we fix them?
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Bill Gates’s vision for life beyond coronavirus
Bill Gates saw coronavirus coming. Here’s his plan to beat it.
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An epic conversation with Madeline Miller
Madeline Miller on myth, translation, and writing a perfect sentence
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The loneliness pandemic/Betraying “essential wo...
We have something a bit different today. Two episodes from our extraordinary colleagues at Today, Explained, both of them close to my heart.
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Why Bernie Sanders lost and how progressives ca...
Sean McElwee on what the left got wrong in 2020
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Scott Gottlieb on how, and when, to end social ...
When will social distancing end? When will life return to “normal”? And what will it take to get there?
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Toby Ord on existential risk, Donald Trump, and...
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Elizabeth Warren has a plan for this, too
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on coronavirus, leadership, and intergenerational justice.
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What social solidarity demands of us in a pandemic
Social distancing isn’t enough. We need social solidarity.
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Coronavirus has pushed US-China relations to th...
What’s happening between the US and China is truly scary
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Is the cure worse than the disease?
Are we overreacting to coronavirus? An economist and a bioethicist weigh in.
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An economic crisis like we’ve never seen
Annie Lowrey on the coronavirus depression
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"The virus is more patient than people are"
Obama's Ebola Czar on why coronavirus is much worse
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A master class in organizing
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Weeds 2020: The coronavirus election
Ezra and Matt on dueling pandemic response plans from Sanders and Biden, and Trump's oval office address.
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Dan Pfeiffer on Joe Biden, beating Trump, and s...
The former Obama White House communications director has some critical feedback for the Democratic party
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