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.

Philosophy
Politics
News Commentary
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Jennifer Lawless on why you — yes, you — should...
61 min
602
JD Vance: the reluctant interpreter of Trumpism
100 min
603
Keith Ellison: The Democratic National Committe...
60 min
604
Elizabeth Kolbert: We have locked in centuries ...
78 min
605
Sarah Kliff and Ezra Interview Obama About Obam...
72 min
606
You Ask, Ezra Answers
93 min
607
Evelyn Farkas explains the crisis in Syria and ...
77 min
608
Tim Wu's interesting, unusual, fascinating life
89 min
609
Ta-Nehisi Coates: "There’s not gonna be a happy...
100 min
610
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison on management, rati...
87 min
611
Award-winning chef José Andrés on cooking, crea...
86 min
612
Heather McGhee returns to talk Trump, race, and...
59 min
613
Ron Brownstein: Clinton didn’t lose because of ...
63 min
614
David Frum on the 2016 election, and the long d...
92 min
615
Deborah Tannen on gendered speech, Hillary Clin...
89 min
616
Joseph Stiglitz on broken markets, bad trade de...
66 min
617
Let's talk about Hillary Clinton's policy ideas...
70 min
618
Francis Fukuyama on whether America's democracy...
67 min
619
Tyler Cowen interviews Ezra Klein about politic...
73 min
620
The best conversation I’ve had about the electi...
68 min
621
HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell on runnin...
43 min
622
Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is...
96 min
623
Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump ...
55 min
624
Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning...
91 min
625
W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twi...
88 min