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