704 Episodes

  1. Cal Newport has an answer for digital burnout

    Published: 14/01/2019

  2. Eric Holder’s plan to save democracy

    Published: 10/01/2019

  3. Anil Dash on the biases of tech

    Published: 7/01/2019

  4. Jill Lepore on America’s two revolutions

    Published: 3/01/2019

  5. Best of: N.K. Jemisin

    Published: 31/12/2018

  6. Best-of: Bryan Stevenson

    Published: 27/12/2018

  7. Kara Swisher interviews me on the Future of Journalism (Live!)

    Published: 24/12/2018

  8. TED’s Chris Anderson on the lessons of listening

    Published: 20/12/2018

  9. Rep. Katie Porter on how capitalism is failing

    Published: 17/12/2018

  10. How Hasan Minhaj is reinventing political comedy

    Published: 13/12/2018

  11. Adam Serwer on white political correctness

    Published: 10/12/2018

  12. Will Storr on why you are not yourself

    Published: 6/12/2018

  13. How to be a better carnivore

    Published: 3/12/2018

  14. Peter Beinart on anti-Semitism in America and illiberalism in Israel

    Published: 29/11/2018

  15. Where Jonathan Haidt thinks the American mind went wrong

    Published: 26/11/2018

  16. The Impact: Deportation without representation

    Published: 22/11/2018

  17. Molly Ball on Nancy Pelosi’s future and Paul Ryan’s failure

    Published: 19/11/2018

  18. Whitney Phillips explains how Trump controls the media

    Published: 15/11/2018

  19. Ask Ezra Anything

    Published: 12/11/2018

  20. Presidents in crisis with Slow Burn’s Leon Neyfakh

    Published: 8/11/2018

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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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