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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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 32 days 5 hours 17 minutes
episode 360: Black Republicans, Donald Trump, and America's "George Floyd moment"
The Republican Party began losing the Black vote around 1936. Since then, Republicans have commissioned reports, hired consultants, and spent huge sums of campaign dollars trying to win back Black voters. The project continues today: This year’s Republican National Convention presented a lineup of speakers far more diverse than the Republican Party itself, making the case for the “Party of Lincoln.” A third of African Americans, after all, self-identify as “conservative...
episode 359: Andrew Yang on UBI, coronavirus, and his next job in politics
The 2020 candidate on how to fix the economy, and the government
episode 358: What the Iraq disaster can teach us about Trump
The enduring relevance of America's disastrous Iraq invasion.
episode 357: How to decarbonize America — and create 25 million jobs
The US has the technology to decarbonize by 2035. Here's a plan to do it.
episode 356: Isabel Wilkerson wants to change how we understand race in America
A new way of thinking about race and class
episode 355: What it would take to end child poverty in America
Rep. Barbara Lee on why rebuilding the economy means investing in our kids
episode 354: Hannah Gadsby on comedy, free speech, and living with autism
How Hannah Gadsby's mind works
episode 353: What would Keynes do?
What the 20th century’s most influential economist can teach us about rebuilding the US economy
episode 352: A devastating indictment of the Republican Party
An insider perspective on the GOP’s march to Trumpism
episode 351: How inequality and white identity politics feed each other
Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson on the conservative dilemma