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 7 hours 52 minutes
episode 324: An unusually honest conversation about wielding political power
Rep. Pramila Jayapal on stimulus negotiations, the economy, and progressive power.
episode 323: What should the media learn from coronavirus?
Coronavirus exposed weaknesses in our media ecosystem. Can we fix them?
episode 322: Bill Gates’s vision for life beyond coronavirus
Bill Gates saw coronavirus coming. Here’s his plan to beat it.
episode 321: An epic conversation with Madeline Miller
Madeline Miller on myth, translation, and writing a perfect sentence
episode 320: The loneliness pandemic/Betraying “essential workers”
We have something a bit different today. Two episodes from our extraordinary colleagues at Today, Explained, both of them close to my heart.
episode 319: Why Bernie Sanders lost and how progressives can still win
Sean McElwee on what the left got wrong in 2020
episode 318: Scott Gottlieb on how, and when, to end social distancing
When will social distancing end? When will life return to “normal”? And what will it take to get there?
episode 317: Toby Ord on existential risk, Donald Trump, and thinking in probabilities
Oxford philosopher Toby Ord spent the early part of his career spearheading the effective altruism movement, founding Giving What We Can, and focusing his attention primarily on issue areas like global public health and extreme poverty. Ord’s new book The Precipice is about something entirely different: the biggest existential risks to the future of humanity. In it, he predicts that humanity has approximately a 1 in 6 chance of going completely extinct by the end of the 21st century...
episode 316: Elizabeth Warren has a plan for this, too
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on coronavirus, leadership, and intergenerational justice.
episode 315: What social solidarity demands of us in a pandemic
Social distancing isn’t enough. We need social solidarity.