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 311: "The virus is more patient than people are"
Obama's Ebola Czar on why coronavirus is much worse
episode 310: A master class in organizing
The Bernie Sanders campaign is an organizing tour-de-force relative to the Joe Biden campaign; yet the latter has won primary after primary — with even higher turnouts than 2016. So does organizing even work? And, if so, what went wrong? Jane McAlevey has organized hundreds of thousands of workers on the frontlines of America’s labor movement...
Weeds 2020: The coronavirus election
Ezra and Matt on dueling pandemic response plans from Sanders and Biden, and Trump's oval office address.
episode 308: Dan Pfeiffer on Joe Biden, beating Trump, and saving democracy
The former Obama White House communications director has some critical feedback for the Democratic party
episode 307: Are you a "political hobbyist?" If so, you're the problem.
Political scientist Eitan Hersh on how political hobbyism is ruining politics
episode 306: What would a Sanders or Biden presidency look like?
Matt Yglesias and I talk foreign policy, staffing, the Democratic Party and more.
episode 305: Rebecca Solnit on Harvey Weinstein, feminism, and social change
The radical wisdom of Rebecca Solnit
episode 305: Weeds 2020: The Bernie electability debate
Welcome to Weeds 2020! Every other Saturday Ezra and Matt will be exploring a wide range of topics related to the 2020 race.
episode 304: Tracy K. Smith changed how I read poetry
America’s two-time poet laureate on love, language, and erasure
episode 303: Barbara Ehrenreich on UBI, class conflict, and collective joy
Ezra Klein and Barbara Ehrenreich discuss our most pervasive cultural myths from rugged individualism to positive thinking