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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Tim Ferriss on suffering, psychedelics, and spi...
108 min
627
Yuval Harari, author of “Sapiens,” on AI, relig...
67 min
628
Elizabeth Drew covered Watergate. Here's what s...
68 min
629
Avik Roy on why conservatives need to embrace d...
88 min
630
Kara Swisher gives a master class on reporting ...
95 min
631
David Miliband explains the global refugee crisis
46 min
632
Jennifer Lawless on why you — yes, you — should...
61 min
633
JD Vance: the reluctant interpreter of Trumpism
100 min
634
Keith Ellison: The Democratic National Committe...
60 min
635
Elizabeth Kolbert: We have locked in centuries ...
78 min
636
Sarah Kliff and Ezra Interview Obama About Obam...
72 min
637
You Ask, Ezra Answers
93 min
638
Evelyn Farkas explains the crisis in Syria and ...
77 min
639
Tim Wu's interesting, unusual, fascinating life
89 min
640
Ta-Nehisi Coates: "There’s not gonna be a happy...
100 min
641
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison on management, rati...
87 min
642
Award-winning chef José Andrés on cooking, crea...
86 min
643
Heather McGhee returns to talk Trump, race, and...
59 min
644
Ron Brownstein: Clinton didn’t lose because of ...
63 min
645
David Frum on the 2016 election, and the long d...
92 min
646
Deborah Tannen on gendered speech, Hillary Clin...
89 min
647
Joseph Stiglitz on broken markets, bad trade de...
66 min
648
Let's talk about Hillary Clinton's policy ideas...
70 min
649
Francis Fukuyama on whether America's democracy...
67 min
650
Tyler Cowen interviews Ezra Klein about politic...
73 min