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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You Ask, Ezra Answers
93 min
602
Evelyn Farkas explains the crisis in Syria and ...
77 min
603
Tim Wu's interesting, unusual, fascinating life
89 min
604
Ta-Nehisi Coates: "There’s not gonna be a happy...
100 min
605
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison on management, rati...
87 min
606
Award-winning chef José Andrés on cooking, crea...
86 min
607
Heather McGhee returns to talk Trump, race, and...
59 min
608
Ron Brownstein: Clinton didn’t lose because of ...
63 min
609
David Frum on the 2016 election, and the long d...
92 min
610
Deborah Tannen on gendered speech, Hillary Clin...
89 min
611
Joseph Stiglitz on broken markets, bad trade de...
66 min
612
Let's talk about Hillary Clinton's policy ideas...
70 min
613
Francis Fukuyama on whether America's democracy...
67 min
614
Tyler Cowen interviews Ezra Klein about politic...
73 min
615
The best conversation I’ve had about the electi...
68 min
616
HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell on runnin...
43 min
617
Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is...
96 min
618
Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump ...
55 min
619
Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning...
91 min
620
W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twi...
88 min
621
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining conse...
90 min
622
Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conf...
86 min
623
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, a...
79 min
624
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
625
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min