704 Episodes

  1. Barbara Ehrenreich on UBI, class conflict, and collective joy

    Published: 24/02/2020

  2. What Donald Trump got right about white America

    Published: 20/02/2020

  3. Ta-Nehisi Coates on my “cold, atheist book”

    Published: 17/02/2020

  4. If God is dead, then … socialism?

    Published: 13/02/2020

  5. Tim Urban on humanity’s wild future

    Published: 10/02/2020

  6. Jill Lepore on what I get wrong

    Published: 06/02/2020

  7. Is Tom Steyer the solution to our dysfunctional politics?

    Published: 03/02/2020

  8. Why We're Polarized, with Jamelle Bouie (live!)

    Published: 30/01/2020

  9. Antisemitism now, antisemitism then

    Published: 27/01/2020

  10. Book excerpt: A better theory of identity politics

    Published: 23/01/2020

  11. The war on Muslims (with Mehdi Hasan)

    Published: 20/01/2020

  12. Post-debate special!

    Published: 16/01/2020

  13. An “uncomfortable” conversation with Cory Booker

    Published: 13/01/2020

  14. The conservative mind of Yuval Levin

    Published: 09/01/2020

  15. How an epidemic begins and ends

    Published: 08/01/2020

  16. Nathan Robinson’s case for socialism

    Published: 06/01/2020

  17. How to topple dictators and transform society (with Erica Chenoweth)

    Published: 02/01/2020

  18. Ask Ezra Anything

    Published: 30/12/2019

  19. Best of: Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle

    Published: 26/12/2019

  20. Republicans vs. the planet

    Published: 23/12/2019

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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.

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