The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Show • 711 episodesDo you have moral ambition?
May 12 • 1h 0m
The science of ideology
May 5 • 55m
A new analysis of the pandemic
Apr 28 • 51m
Whatever this is, it isn’t liberalism
Apr 14 • 57m
A new way to listen
Apr 11 • 1m
The beliefs AI is built on
Apr 7 • 50m
Stop comparing yourself to AI
Mar 31 • 55m
Democrats need to do something
Mar 24 • 54m
How to live in uncertain times
Mar 17 • 52m
How to sink into silence
Mar 10 • 50m
How to change your personality
Mar 3 • 43m
Is ignorance truly bliss?
Feb 17 • 38m
Is America broken?
Feb 10 • 53m
The cost of spending time alone
Feb 3 • 45m
Attention pays (with Chris Hayes)
Jan 27 • 54m
How to be happy
Jan 20 • 1h 10m
The screens between us
Jan 13 • 49m
The importance of failure
Jan 6 • 50m
What to do with your sadness, pain, and grief
Dec 23, 2024 • 1h 0m
What do animals feel?
Dec 16, 2024 • 52m
Are men okay?
Dec 9, 2024 • 52m
How to feel alive
Dec 2, 2024 • 57m
The antidote to climate anxiety
Nov 25, 2024 • 55m
America’s reactionary moment
Nov 18, 2024 • 1h 18m
Well this is awkward
Nov 11, 2024 • 1h 1m
What just happened, and what comes next
Nov 8, 2024 • 54m
Does being "woke" do any good?
Nov 4, 2024 • 56m
Is America collapsing like Ancient Rome?
Oct 28, 2024 • 49m
The world according to Werner Herzog
Oct 21, 2024 • 1h 0m
Ta-Nehisi Coates on complexity, clarity, and truth.
Oct 14, 2024 • 1h 13m
Your mind needs chaos
Oct 9, 2024 • 51m
Musician Laraaji on the origin of creativity
Oct 8, 2024 • 47m
Is AI creative?
Oct 7, 2024 • 41m
Happiness isn’t the goal
Sep 30, 2024 • 53m
A message from Sean
Sep 27, 2024 • 1m
What if we get climate change right?
Sep 23, 2024 • 48m
Yuval Noah Harari on the eclipsing of human intelligence
Sep 16, 2024 • 1h 27m
Why cynicism is bad for you
Sep 9, 2024 • 58m
Poetry as religion
Sep 2, 2024 • 59m
The jazz musician’s guide to the universe
Aug 26, 2024 • 57m
Revisiting the "father of capitalism"
Aug 19, 2024 • 55m
Breaking our family patterns
Aug 12, 2024 • 1h 6m
Why Orwell matters
Aug 5, 2024 • 56m
The timebomb the founding fathers left us
Jul 29, 2024 • 55m
Swear like a philosopher
Jul 22, 2024 • 44m
Taking Nietzsche seriously
Jul 15, 2024 • 1h 2m
What India teaches us about liberalism — and its decline
Jul 8, 2024 • 46m
1992: The year politics broke
Jul 1, 2024 • 44m
The existential struggle of being Black
Jun 24, 2024 • 55m
The world after nuclear war
Jun 17, 2024 • 57m
Gaza, Camus, and the logic of violence
Jun 10, 2024 • 54m
This is your kid on smartphones
Jun 3, 2024 • 53m
Life after death?
May 20, 2024 • 52m
The world after Ozempic
May 13, 2024 • 50m
UFOs, God, and the edge of understanding
May 6, 2024 • 46m
How to listen
Apr 29, 2024 • 55m
Everything's a cult now
Apr 22, 2024 • 53m
Fareed Zakaria on our revolutionary moment
Apr 15, 2024 • 45m
Life is hard. Can philosophy help?
Apr 8, 2024 • 51m
The American dream is a pyramid scheme
Apr 1, 2024 • 46m
The chaplain who doesn't believe in God
Mar 25, 2024 • 48m
Can a friend be our most significant other?
Mar 18, 2024 • 50m
The power of climate fiction
Mar 11, 2024 • 47m
The denial of death
Mar 4, 2024 • 45m
A brief history of extinction panics
Feb 26, 2024 • 50m
The new(ish) world order
Feb 19, 2024 • 42m
The free-market century is over
Feb 12, 2024 • 54m
Music and mysticism
Feb 5, 2024 • 47m
The case for banning...millionaires?
Jan 29, 2024 • 53m
The joy of uncertainty
Jan 22, 2024 • 48m
A pro-worker work ethic
Jan 15, 2024 • 41m
How psychedelics can reinvent learning
Jan 8, 2024 • 37m
Seeing ourselves through the darkness
Dec 26, 2023 • 55m
Living Mindfully
Dec 18, 2023 • 41m
Taking anarchism seriously
Dec 11, 2023 • 50m
3,000 years of The Iliad
Dec 4, 2023 • 36m
Late-stage liberalism
Nov 27, 2023 • 53m
The case against free will
Nov 20, 2023 • 58m
A Jew and a Muslim get honest about Israel and Gaza
Nov 13, 2023 • 1h 0m
How to keep panic from attacking
Nov 6, 2023 • 49m
We Are What We Watch
Oct 30, 2023 • 56m
Werner Herzog’s ecstatic truth
Oct 23, 2023 • 56m
The lessons of Sam Bankman-Fried
Oct 16, 2023 • 55m
Is America getting meaner?
Oct 2, 2023 • 54m
Naomi Klein on her doppelganger (and yours)
Sep 25, 2023 • 57m
Should we press pause on AI?
Sep 18, 2023 • 57m
Democracy’s existential crisis
Sep 11, 2023 • 51m
Conservative socialism?
Aug 28, 2023 • 55m
The benefits of utopian thinking
Aug 21, 2023 • 53m
What Clarence Thomas really thinks
Aug 14, 2023 • 1h 3m
The new crisis of masculinity
Aug 7, 2023 • 1h 1m
How we all became a brand
Jul 31, 2023 • 52m
The therapeutic potential of MDMA
Jul 24, 2023 • 47m
Is the journey to self-discovery pointless?
Jul 17, 2023 • 52m
Parenting through the climate crisis
Jul 10, 2023 • 47m
Seeing ourselves through darkness
Jun 29, 2023 • 56m
Best of: A new philosophy of love
Jun 26, 2023 • 59m
The future of tribalism
Jun 22, 2023 • 52m
When you can't separate art from artist
Jun 15, 2023 • 53m
The case for not killing yourself
Jun 12, 2023 • 57m
What comes after Black Lives Matter?
Jun 8, 2023 • 57m
Clickbait’s destructive legacy
Jun 5, 2023 • 52m
Simone Weil’s radical philosophy of love and attention
Jun 1, 2023 • 56m
Peter Singer on his ethical legacy
May 25, 2023 • 1h 5m
Why the poor in America stay poor
May 22, 2023 • 54m
The spiritual roots of our strange relationship to work
May 18, 2023 • 53m
Mysteries of the mind
May 15, 2023 • 53m
Why we can’t just blame capitalism for everything
May 11, 2023 • 49m
Being human in the age of AI
May 8, 2023 • 53m
A philosopher's psychedelic encounter with reality
May 4, 2023 • 51m
The project of Socratic love with Agnes Callard
May 1, 2023 • 52m
The chemistry of connection
Apr 27, 2023 • 53m
What a slow civil war looks like
Apr 24, 2023 • 56m
How to listen
Apr 20, 2023 • 55m
Why we can't give up on persuasion
Apr 17, 2023 • 53m
Rep. Katie Porter's working-class politics
Apr 13, 2023 • 47m
The climate apocalypse will be televised
Apr 10, 2023 • 1h 0m
A philosopher takes on religious life
Apr 6, 2023 • 53m
Your brain isn't so private anymore
Apr 3, 2023 • 1h 5m
Brian Stelter thinks the news has a reliability problem
Mar 30, 2023 • 56m
How corporations got all your data
Mar 27, 2023 • 54m
The case for failure
Mar 16, 2023 • 48m
Poetry as religion
Mar 13, 2023 • 56m
Revisiting the American Dream
Mar 9, 2023 • 43m
The cost of saving pandas
Mar 6, 2023 • 45m
Breaking our family patterns
Mar 2, 2023 • 1h 4m
For Black horror fans, fact is scarier than fiction
Feb 27, 2023 • 51m
Taking Nietzsche seriously
Feb 23, 2023 • 1h 5m
The dark history of Silicon Valley
Feb 16, 2023 • 1h 0m
The value of being a "hater"
Feb 13, 2023 • 55m
Behind the blue wall
Feb 9, 2023 • 1h 2m
Best of: Imagine a future with no police
Feb 6, 2023 • 1h 3m
Is America broken?
Feb 2, 2023 • 50m
The creator of Fargo is done with good guys vs. bad guys
Jan 30, 2023 • 55m
Revisiting the "father of capitalism"
Jan 26, 2023 • 53m
Can effective altruism be redeemed?
Jan 23, 2023 • 1h 3m
The roots of homelessness
Jan 19, 2023 • 53m
Can race be transcended?
Jan 12, 2023 • 46m
Is ethical AI possible?
Jan 9, 2023 • 47m
What do we owe animals?
Jan 5, 2023 • 48m
Best of: America's philosophy, with Cornel West
Dec 22, 2022 • 1h 1m
Best of: The necessity — and danger — of free speech
Dec 19, 2022 • 53m
The church of celebrity
Dec 15, 2022 • 57m
Men and boys are struggling. Should we care?
Dec 12, 2022 • 58m
The power of attention in a world of distraction
Dec 8, 2022 • 46m
A veteran reporter on how to fix the news
Dec 5, 2022 • 56m
The end of social media
Dec 1, 2022 • 50m
If society is making us sick, how can we heal?
Nov 28, 2022 • 57m
The free-market century is over
Nov 21, 2022 • 57m
Your identity is a story you tell yourself
Nov 17, 2022 • 45m
James Carville unpacks the midterms
Nov 14, 2022 • 49m
Why are billionaires prepping for the apocalypse?
Nov 10, 2022 • 55m
Today's Republicans were made in the 1990s
Nov 7, 2022 • 1h 6m
Yuval Noah Harari thinks humans are unstoppable
Nov 3, 2022 • 1h 2m
Dying with dignity
Oct 31, 2022 • 59m
Finding hope in a world on the brink
Oct 27, 2022 • 58m
The new American Reconstruction
Oct 24, 2022 • 1h 7m
Is America losing its religion?
Oct 20, 2022 • 54m
How we got to January 6th
Oct 17, 2022 • 59m
Neil deGrasse Tyson gets political
Oct 13, 2022 • 58m
Introducing The Gray Area
Oct 11, 2022 • 1m
Best of: Why America's obsession with rights is wrong
Oct 6, 2022 • 59m
A GOP insider on why the party went Trump
Oct 3, 2022 • 1h 1m
How do we fix the harm we cause?
Sep 29, 2022 • 50m
A new philosophy of love
Sep 26, 2022 • 1h 0m
The politics of 'Yellowstone'
Sep 23, 2022 • 26m
How society sexualizes us
Sep 22, 2022 • 56m
The Parent Trap
Sep 19, 2022 • 1h 1m
40 Acres: Reaching reconciliation
Sep 15, 2022 • 34m
40 Acres: The old Jim Crow
Sep 12, 2022 • 48m
40 Acres: $14 trillion and no mules
Sep 8, 2022 • 50m
40 Acres: The original promise
Sep 1, 2022 • 55m
What Clarence Thomas really thinks
Aug 29, 2022 • 1h 4m
Even Better: Don't call it a budget
Aug 25, 2022 • 47m
The quest for authenticity
Aug 22, 2022 • 51m
Even Better: Setting your boundaries
Aug 18, 2022 • 44m
Your gut instinct is usually wrong
Aug 15, 2022 • 55m
Even Better: Workplace equality 2.0
Aug 11, 2022 • 53m
Why we're still postmodern (whatever that means)
Aug 8, 2022 • 58m
Even Better: Activism when you don't know where to start
Aug 4, 2022 • 48m
The Supreme Court's power grab
Aug 1, 2022 • 1h 5m
How middlemen took over the economy
Jul 28, 2022 • 1h 6m
The necessity — and danger — of free speech
Jul 25, 2022 • 56m
Hacking coral sex to save the reefs
Jul 21, 2022 • 55m
The price of keeping secrets
Jul 18, 2022 • 52m
Does China control Hollywood?
Jul 14, 2022 • 1h 4m
Steve Bannon is still at war
Jul 11, 2022 • 50m
The Fortress of Solitude saw it all coming
Jun 30, 2022 • 39m
The Philosophers: Stoic revival
Jun 27, 2022 • 1h 5m
Station Eleven's creator on the end of the world
Jun 23, 2022 • 52m
The racist origins of fat phobia
Jun 16, 2022 • 54m
The fight for Ukraine — and democracy
Jun 13, 2022 • 54m
The war on trans people
Jun 9, 2022 • 55m
Michael Ian Black on being a better man
Jun 6, 2022 • 56m
Carmen Maria Machado's haunted feminine
Jun 2, 2022 • 42m
The rise and fall of America's monuments
May 26, 2022 • 50m
The Philosophers: America's philosophy, with Cornel West
May 23, 2022 • 1h 1m
Why accidents aren't accidental
May 19, 2022 • 53m
Rethinking the "end of history"
May 16, 2022 • 1h 2m
Anita Hill finally gets even
May 12, 2022 • 1h 1m
Elites have captured identity politics
May 9, 2022 • 58m
The moral dangers of dirty work
May 5, 2022 • 59m
Did the sexual revolution go wrong?
May 2, 2022 • 58m
Who decides how to conserve nature?
Apr 28, 2022 • 56m
The Philosophers: Loneliness and totalitarianism
Apr 25, 2022 • 1h 3m
The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 4: The future of Europe
Apr 21, 2022 • 1h 4m
Michael Lewis on why Americans distrust experts
Apr 18, 2022 • 58m
The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 3: The nuclear threat
Apr 14, 2022 • 56m
The case for regret
Apr 11, 2022 • 51m
The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 2: Sanctions
Apr 7, 2022 • 1h 1m
The spirituality of parenting
Apr 4, 2022 • 49m
The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 1: Why did Putin go to war?
Mar 31, 2022 • 1h 1m
The Philosophers: Resisting despair
Mar 28, 2022 • 56m
What happened to American conservatism?
Mar 24, 2022 • 1h 0m
The limits of forgiveness
Mar 21, 2022 • 52m
The madness behind The Method
Mar 17, 2022 • 1h 8m
David Cross is disappointed in you guys
Mar 14, 2022 • 49m
Author Kiley Reid on why we read novels
Mar 10, 2022 • 47m
The conversation about guns we're not having
Mar 7, 2022 • 1h 4m
Why does middle school suck?
Mar 3, 2022 • 1h 5m
Russia's war with Ukraine — and reality
Feb 28, 2022 • 39m
Robert Glasper on why Black Radio is back
Feb 24, 2022 • 57m
Could we lose delicious foods forever?
Feb 17, 2022 • 1h 6m
What Don't Look Up is really about
Feb 14, 2022 • 1h 1m
Democracy in crisis, part 2: The two-party problem
Feb 10, 2022 • 58m
Why we can't pay attention anymore
Feb 7, 2022 • 1h 4m
Democracy in crisis, part 1: Ross Douthat isn't too worried
Feb 3, 2022 • 1h 6m
Pod Save the Democrats
Jan 31, 2022 • 1h 0m
A Yellowjackets creator spills his guts
Jan 27, 2022 • 44m
A scientist's case for "woo-woo"
Jan 24, 2022 • 1h 0m
Imagine a future with no police
Jan 20, 2022 • 1h 5m
Novelist Lauren Groff on the other Matrix
Jan 13, 2022 • 47m
Are we living in a simulation?
Jan 10, 2022 • 1h 8m
Rep. Jamie Raskin on living through the unthinkable, twice
Jan 6, 2022 • 57m
Best of: Why fascism in America isn't going away
Jan 3, 2022 • 49m
Best of: Clint Smith III on confronting the legacy of slavery
Dec 30, 2021 • 1h 1m
Best of: We need to talk about UFOs. Seriously.
Dec 27, 2021 • 1h 3m
Chris Bosh on winning (and losing everything)
Dec 23, 2021 • 58m
The cult of toughness
Dec 20, 2021 • 1h 6m
Is ethical investing a scam?
Dec 16, 2021 • 57m
The good life is painful
Dec 13, 2021 • 55m
The father of environmental justice
Dec 9, 2021 • 50m
Jill Lepore on Elon Musk's imaginary world
Dec 6, 2021 • 1h 3m
E.O. Wilson's plan to save the world
Dec 2, 2021 • 56m
Workers of the world, stay home!
Nov 29, 2021 • 1h 2m
How progressives get back in the game
Nov 22, 2021 • 1h 3m
The highs and lows of the "creator economy"
Nov 18, 2021 • 49m
Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now
Nov 15, 2021 • 1h 0m
The stories soul food tells
Nov 11, 2021 • 51m
The paradox of American freedom
Nov 8, 2021 • 57m
Nonbinary parenthood
Nov 4, 2021 • 1h 0m
John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist
Nov 1, 2021 • 1h 6m
The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care
Oct 28, 2021 • 1h 3m
How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation panic
Oct 25, 2021 • 58m
Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom
Oct 21, 2021 • 59m
What the internet took from us
Oct 18, 2021 • 58m
Trapped inside with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi
Oct 14, 2021 • 49m
Bryan Stevenson on the legacy of enslavement
Oct 7, 2021 • 1h 3m
What's your status?
Oct 4, 2021 • 57m
Is there a hack for enlightenment?
Sep 30, 2021 • 1h 5m
Fighting a world on fire with fire
Sep 27, 2021 • 1h 2m
Revolutionary Love
Sep 23, 2021 • 57m
How to make meaning out of suffering
Sep 20, 2021 • 56m
Ken Burns's latest on The Greatest
Sep 16, 2021 • 1h 7m
The road from 9/11 to Donald Trump
Sep 13, 2021 • 1h 8m
Rep. Pramila Jayapal on immigrants and America after 9/11
Sep 9, 2021 • 51m
Why America's obsession with rights is wrong
Sep 2, 2021 • 58m
The news is by — and for — rich, white liberals
Aug 30, 2021 • 1h 2m
Clint Smith III on confronting the legacy of slavery
Aug 26, 2021 • 1h 1m
Was the cruelty the point?
Aug 23, 2021 • 1h 1m
How seashells shaped the world — and predict our future
Aug 19, 2021 • 58m
Bill Maher on free speech, comedy, and his haters
Aug 16, 2021 • 50m
Robert Reich wants you to take on the system
Aug 12, 2021 • 53m
Marty Baron on the future of news
Aug 9, 2021 • 54m
The death of cool
Aug 5, 2021 • 48m
We need to talk about UFOs. Seriously.
Aug 2, 2021 • 1h 2m
Philadelphia's progressive prosecutor
Jul 29, 2021 • 55m
Fareed Zakaria on the fate of democracy
Jul 26, 2021 • 1h 11m
Jane Goodall on the power of hope
Jul 22, 2021 • 1h 2m
Why we love drugs
Jul 19, 2021 • 1h 3m
The rugged majesty of revision
Jul 15, 2021 • 1h 0m
How to forgive
Jul 12, 2021 • 59m
What makes a great conversation?
Jul 8, 2021 • 22m
Introducing: Now & Then
Jul 1, 2021 • 58m
The science of dating
Jun 24, 2021 • 54m
Honoring Juneteenth with Ibram X. Kendi
Jun 17, 2021 • 53m
Digital dictatorship
Jun 10, 2021 • 59m
The man who proposed reparations in the 1860s
Jun 3, 2021 • 1h 7m
What pandemic recovery should look like
May 27, 2021 • 56m
The gift of getting old
May 20, 2021 • 58m
Freedom, and what it means to have a body
May 13, 2021 • 56m
Why are we so worried about Satan?
May 6, 2021 • 1h 4m
How to be wrong less often
Apr 29, 2021 • 54m
The complicated history of wildlife conservation
Apr 22, 2021 • 1h 7m
How to replace everything in the industrialized world
Apr 15, 2021 • 1h 3m
Patricia Lockwood's big, beautiful internet brain
Apr 8, 2021 • 57m
Who is the real George Soros?
Apr 1, 2021 • 58m
Introducing Unexplainable
Mar 27, 2021 • 28m
The border, explained by someone who knows it intimately
Mar 25, 2021 • 57m
"Wintering," wisdom, and weathering life's darkest times
Mar 18, 2021 • 1h 8m
Reframing America's race problem
Mar 11, 2021 • 54m
Who owns the Western?
Mar 4, 2021 • 51m
A Watchmen writer on race, TV, and tech giants
Feb 25, 2021 • 54m
Uncovering the history of psychedelics in Christianity
Feb 18, 2021 • 53m
Biden's immigration architect on racism, reform, and the Obama legacy
Feb 11, 2021 • 1h 4m
The Capitol Siege and American Revolution
Feb 4, 2021 • 46m
Why fascism in Post-Trump America isn't going away
Jan 28, 2021 • 45m
The Joe Biden experience
Jan 25, 2021 • 1h 7m
What it means to be a "good" rich person
Jan 21, 2021 • 50m
Peter Kafka and Kevin Roose on big tech's power and responsibility
Jan 18, 2021 • 30m
Sam Sanders and Olivia Nuzzi on President Trump’s last days
Jan 14, 2021 • 46m
Best of: We don’t just feel emotions. We make them.
Jan 7, 2021 • 1h 35m
Best of: Ending the age of animal cruelty, with Bruce Friedrich
Jan 4, 2021 • 1h 21m
Best of: The moral philosophy of The Good Place
Dec 31, 2020 • 1h 44m
Best of: Michael Lewis reads my mind
Dec 28, 2020 • 1h 46m
Best of: Tracy K. Smith changed how I read poetry
Dec 24, 2020 • 1h 30m
What I’ve learned, and what comes next.
Dec 21, 2020 • 41m
Best of: An inspiring conversation about democracy with Danielle Allen
Dec 17, 2020 • 1h 12m
Michael Pollan on the psychedelic society
Dec 14, 2020 • 1h 16m
Best of: Robert Sapolsky on the toxic intersection of poverty and stress
Dec 10, 2020 • 1h 20m
Joe Biden and "the new progressivism"
Dec 7, 2020 • 1h 3m
Best of: Frances Lee on why bipartisanship is irrational
Dec 3, 2020 • 59m
The most important book I've read this year
Nov 30, 2020 • 1h 36m
Best of: Alison Gopnik changed how I think about love
Nov 26, 2020 • 1h 35m
Best of: Vivek Murthy on America’s loneliness epidemic
Nov 23, 2020 • 1h 21m
What Democrats got wrong about Hispanic voters
Nov 19, 2020 • 1h 6m
Antitrust, censorship, misinformation, and the 2020 election
Nov 16, 2020 • 1h 1m
The crisis isn’t Trump. It’s the Republican Party.
Nov 12, 2020 • 1h 6m
The Joe Biden experience
Nov 7, 2020 • 1h 8m
Chris Hayes and I process this wild election
Nov 5, 2020 • 1h 5m
Stacey Abrams on minority rule, voting rights, and the future of democracy
Nov 2, 2020 • 1h 10m
Nate Silver on why 2020 isn't 2016
Oct 29, 2020 • 1h 11m
Sarah Kliff grades Biden and Trump's health care plans
Oct 26, 2020 • 1h 18m
Trumpism never existed. It was always just Trump.
Oct 22, 2020 • 1h 0m
What should Democrats do about the Supreme Court?
Oct 19, 2020 • 1h 26m
Marilynne Robinson on writing, metaphysics, and the Donald Trump dilemma
Oct 15, 2020 • 1h 15m
The case for Trump’s foreign policy
Oct 12, 2020 • 1h 14m
Fareed Zakaria on how Biden and Trump see the world
Oct 8, 2020 • 1h 21m
How a climate bill becomes a reality
Oct 5, 2020 • 1h 27m
The meat we eat affects us all
Oct 2, 2020 • 35m
A dark, dangerous debate
Sep 30, 2020 • 1h 14m
A radical — or obvious? — plan to save American democracy
Sep 28, 2020 • 1h 11m
RBG, minority rule, and our looming legitimacy crisis
Sep 24, 2020 • 1h 11m
David French and I debate polarization, secession, and the filibuster
Sep 21, 2020 • 1h 33m
The Matt Yglesias Show
Sep 17, 2020 • 1h 33m
Race, policing, and the universal yearning for safety
Sep 14, 2020 • 53m
How to think about coronavirus risk in your life
Sep 10, 2020 • 1h 9m
Black Republicans, Donald Trump, and America's "George Floyd moment"
Sep 7, 2020 • 1h 28m
Andrew Yang on UBI, coronavirus, and his next job in politics
Sep 3, 2020 • 1h 29m
Why the hell did America invade Iraq?
Aug 31, 2020 • 1h 21m
How to decarbonize America — and create 25 million jobs
Aug 27, 2020 • 1h 10m
Isabel Wilkerson wants to change how we understand race in America
Aug 24, 2020 • 1h 38m
What it would take to end child poverty in America
Aug 20, 2020 • 53m
Hannah Gadsby on comedy, free speech, and living with autism
Aug 17, 2020 • 1h 33m
What would Keynes do?
Aug 13, 2020 • 1h 44m
A devastating indictment of the Republican Party
Aug 10, 2020 • 1h 1m
How inequality and white identity politics feed each other
Aug 6, 2020 • 1h 18m
Best of: Jia Tolentino on what happens when life is an endless performance
Aug 3, 2020 • 1h 45m
Dadding out with Mike Birbiglia
Jul 30, 2020 • 1h 19m
A rabbi explains how to make sense of suffering
Jul 27, 2020 • 57m
The crisis in the news
Jul 23, 2020 • 52m
Bryan Stevenson on how America can heal
Jul 20, 2020 • 1h 21m
What a post-Trump Republican Party might look like
Jul 16, 2020 • 1h 21m
Free speech, safety, and ‘the letter’
Jul 13, 2020 • 1h 31m
The frightening fragility of America's political institutions
Jul 9, 2020 • 1h 9m
Can artificial intelligence be emotionally intelligent?
Jul 6, 2020 • 1h 18m
Land of the Giants: The Netflix Effect
Jul 1, 2020 • 17m
Nicholas Carr on deep reading and digital thinking
Jun 29, 2020 • 1h 12m
Your questions, answered
Jun 25, 2020 • 1h 23m
Which country has the world's best healthcare system?
Jun 22, 2020 • 1h 10m
The transformative power of restorative justice
Jun 18, 2020 • 1h 14m
Ross Douthat and I debate American decadence
Jun 15, 2020 • 1h 35m
A serious conversation about UFOs
Jun 11, 2020 • 1h 29m
A former prosecutor's case for prison abolition
Jun 8, 2020 • 1h 6m
Why Ta-Nehisi Coates is hopeful
Jun 4, 2020 • 1h 32m
Are humans fundamentally good? (with Rutger Bregman)
Jun 1, 2020 • 1h 39m
From politician to priest
May 28, 2020 • 2h 4m
Robert Frank's radical idea
May 25, 2020 • 1h 14m
Why “essential” workers are treated as disposable
May 21, 2020 • 1h 12m
"The world’s scariest economist” on coronavirus, innovation, and purpose
May 18, 2020 • 1h 24m
A mind-bending conversation about quantum mechanics and parallel worlds
May 14, 2020 • 1h 22m
Why the coronavirus is so deadly for black America
May 11, 2020 • 1h 22m
Jenny Odell on nature, art, and burnout in quarantine
May 7, 2020 • 1h 8m
An unusually honest conversation about wielding political power
May 4, 2020 • 1h 26m
What should the media learn from coronavirus?
Apr 30, 2020 • 1h 36m
Bill Gates’s vision for life beyond coronavirus
Apr 27, 2020 • 54m
An epic conversation with Madeline Miller
Apr 23, 2020 • 1h 22m
The loneliness pandemic/Betraying “essential workers”
Apr 20, 2020 • 49m
Why Bernie Sanders lost and how progressives can still win
Apr 16, 2020 • 1h 41m
Scott Gottlieb on how, and when, to end social distancing
Apr 13, 2020 • 50m
Toby Ord on existential risk, Donald Trump, and thinking in probabilities
Apr 9, 2020 • 1h 26m
Elizabeth Warren has a plan for this, too
Apr 6, 2020 • 53m
What social solidarity demands of us in a pandemic
Apr 2, 2020 • 1h 7m
Coronavirus has pushed US-China relations to their worst point since Mao
Mar 30, 2020 • 1h 1m
Is the cure worse than the disease?
Mar 26, 2020 • 1h 7m
An economic crisis like we’ve never seen
Mar 23, 2020 • 1h 25m
"The virus is more patient than people are"
Mar 19, 2020 • 1h 20m
A master class in organizing
Mar 16, 2020 • 2h 2m
Weeds 2020: The coronavirus election
Mar 14, 2020 • 54m
Dan Pfeiffer on Joe Biden, beating Trump, and saving democracy
Mar 12, 2020 • 1h 38m
Are you a "political hobbyist?" If so, you're the problem.
Mar 9, 2020 • 1h 25m
What would a Sanders or Biden presidency look like?
Mar 5, 2020 • 1h 15m
Rebecca Solnit on Harvey Weinstein, feminism, and social change
Mar 2, 2020 • 1h 47m
Weeds 2020: The Bernie electability debate
Feb 29, 2020 • 58m
Tracy K. Smith changed how I read poetry
Feb 27, 2020 • 1h 29m
Barbara Ehrenreich on UBI, class conflict, and collective joy
Feb 24, 2020 • 1h 8m
What Donald Trump got right about white America
Feb 20, 2020 • 1h 14m
Ta-Nehisi Coates on my “cold, atheist book”
Feb 17, 2020 • 1h 15m
If God is dead, then … socialism?
Feb 13, 2020 • 1h 5m
Tim Urban on humanity’s wild future
Feb 10, 2020 • 1h 30m
Jill Lepore on what I get wrong
Feb 6, 2020 • 1h 25m
Is Tom Steyer the solution to our dysfunctional politics?
Feb 3, 2020 • 1h 6m
Why We're Polarized, with Jamelle Bouie (live!)
Jan 30, 2020 • 1h 16m
Antisemitism now, antisemitism then
Jan 27, 2020 • 1h 31m
Book excerpt: A better theory of identity politics
Jan 23, 2020 • 1h 4m
The war on Muslims (with Mehdi Hasan)
Jan 20, 2020 • 1h 30m
Post-debate special!
Jan 16, 2020 • 1h 0m
An “uncomfortable” conversation with Cory Booker
Jan 13, 2020 • 1h 33m
The conservative mind of Yuval Levin
Jan 9, 2020 • 1h 21m
How an epidemic begins and ends
Jan 8, 2020 • 37m
Nathan Robinson’s case for socialism
Jan 6, 2020 • 1h 43m
How to topple dictators and transform society (with Erica Chenoweth)
Jan 2, 2020 • 47m
Ask Ezra Anything
Dec 30, 2019 • 1h 34m
Best of: Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle
Dec 26, 2019 • 1h 17m
Republicans vs. the planet
Dec 23, 2019 • 1h 43m
The geoengineering question
Dec 19, 2019 • 1h 16m
How to solve climate change and make life more awesome
Dec 16, 2019 • 1h 36m
Paul Krugman on climate, robots, single-payer, and so much more
Dec 12, 2019 • 1h 30m
The moral philosophy of The Good Place (with Mike Schur and Pamela Hieronymi)
Dec 9, 2019 • 1h 44m
When doing the right thing makes you a criminal
Dec 5, 2019 • 1h 45m
Peter Singer on the lives you can save
Dec 2, 2019 • 1h 19m
Best of: The age of "mega-identity" politics
Nov 28, 2019 • 1h 16m
Because podcast
Nov 25, 2019 • 1h 22m
There’s more to life than profit
Nov 21, 2019 • 1h 34m
Having a bad day? Dave Eggers can help.
Nov 18, 2019 • 1h 25m
How Whole Foods, yoga, and NPR became the hallmarks of the elite
Nov 14, 2019 • 1h 13m
How social media makes us antisocial
Nov 11, 2019 • 1h 35m
ICYMI: Edward Norton’s theory of mind, movies, and power
Nov 8, 2019 • 1h 53m
Introducing Reset
Nov 8, 2019 • 42m
What a smarter Trumpism would sound like
Nov 7, 2019 • 1h 27m
The climate crisis is an oceans crisis
Nov 4, 2019 • 1h 14m
We live in The Good Place. And we’re screwing it up.
Oct 28, 2019 • 1h 27m
Neoliberalism and its discontents
Oct 24, 2019 • 1h 34m
The four words that will decide impeachment
Oct 21, 2019 • 55m
We don’t just feel emotions. We make them.
Oct 17, 2019 • 1h 35m
How politics became a war against reality
Oct 14, 2019 • 1h 29m
The loneliness epidemic
Oct 10, 2019 • 1h 21m
Ibram X. Kendi wants to redefine racism
Oct 7, 2019 • 1h 31m
Malcolm Gladwell’s Stranger Things
Oct 3, 2019 • 1h 37m
An inspiring conversation about democracy
Sep 30, 2019 • 1h 32m
Samantha Power’s journey from foreign policy critic to UN ambassador
Sep 26, 2019 • 1h 33m
When meritocracy wins, everybody loses
Sep 23, 2019 • 1h 31m
Nikole Hannah-Jones on the 1619 project, choosing schools, and Cuba
Sep 19, 2019 • 1h 44m
Randall Munroe, the genius behind XKCD
Sep 16, 2019 • 1h 27m
Julián Castro's quiet moral radicalism
Sep 12, 2019 • 1h 7m
Political animals (with Leah Garcés)
Sep 9, 2019 • 1h 32m
John McWhorter thinks we're getting racism wrong
Sep 5, 2019 • 1h 9m
The rocky marriage between libertarians and conservatives
Sep 2, 2019 • 1h 28m
A mind-bending, reality-warping conversation with John Higgs
Aug 29, 2019 • 1h 31m
Jia Tolentino on what happens when life is an endless performance
Aug 26, 2019 • 1h 44m
The original meaning of “identity politics” (with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor)
Aug 22, 2019 • 1h 24m
Are bosses dictators? (with Elizabeth Anderson)
Aug 19, 2019 • 1h 30m
The Constitution is a progressive document
Aug 15, 2019 • 1h 2m
Matt Bruenig’s case for single-payer health care
Aug 12, 2019 • 2h 4m
Can Raj Chetty save the American dream?
Aug 8, 2019 • 1h 22m
Astra Taylor will change how you think about democracy
Aug 5, 2019 • 1h 21m
Is big tech addictive? Nir Eyal and I debate.
Aug 1, 2019 • 1h 19m
Generation Climate Change
Jul 29, 2019 • 1h 37m
Is the media amplifying Trump’s racism? (with Whitney Phillips)
Jul 25, 2019 • 1h 27m
Rutger Bregman’s utopias, and mine
Jul 22, 2019 • 1h 32m
How white identity politics won the Republican civil war
Jul 18, 2019 • 1h 28m
George Will makes the conservative case against democracy
Jul 15, 2019 • 1h 16m
What deliberative democracy can, and can’t, do (with Jane Mansbridge)
Jul 11, 2019 • 56m
Rod Dreher on America’s post-Christian culture war [CORRECTED]
Jul 8, 2019 • 1h 55m
White threat in a browning America (Jennifer Richeson re-air)
Jul 4, 2019 • 1h 18m
Behind the panic in white, Christian America
Jul 1, 2019 • 1h 36m
An enlightening, frustrating conversation on liberalism (with Adam Gopnik)
Jun 27, 2019 • 1h 51m
The cognitive cost of poverty (with Sendhil Mullainathan)
Jun 24, 2019 • 1h 39m
Failing towards Utopia
Jun 21, 2019 • 20m
Why liberals and conservatives create such different media (with Danna Young)
Jun 20, 2019 • 1h 36m
Stacey Abrams and Lauren Groh-Wargo (Live!)
Jun 17, 2019 • 1h 4m
This changed how I think about love (with Alison Gopnik)
Jun 13, 2019 • 1h 34m
The plan behind Elizabeth Warren’s plans
Jun 10, 2019 • 54m
Michael Lewis reads my mind
Jun 6, 2019 • 1h 43m
How Mitch McConnell convinced Michael Bennet to run for president
Jun 3, 2019 • 1h 18m
How the brains of master meditators change
May 30, 2019 • 1h 10m
Why good people are easily corrupted (with Lawrence Lessig)
May 27, 2019 • 1h 24m
The art of attention (with Jenny Odell)
May 23, 2019 • 1h 26m
Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housing crisis
May 20, 2019 • 1h 5m
What kind of news is cable news? (With Brian Stelter)
May 16, 2019 • 1h 27m
Contrapoints on taking the trolls seriously
May 13, 2019 • 1h 21m
The purpose of political violence
May 9, 2019 • 1h 21m
Ask Ezra Anything 3: Endgame
May 6, 2019 • 1h 36m
The disillusionment of David Brooks
May 2, 2019 • 1h 38m
Emily Oster schools me on parenthood
Apr 29, 2019 • 57m
Lessons from Vox’s first 5 years
Apr 25, 2019 • 1h 35m
Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle
Apr 22, 2019 • 1h 24m
How social democrats won Europe — then lost it
Apr 18, 2019 • 1h 9m
In defense of white-backlash politics
Apr 15, 2019 • 1h 41m
Identity, nationalism, and fatherhood
Apr 11, 2019 • 1h 48m
An ex-libertarian’s quest to rebuild the center right
Apr 8, 2019 • 1h 26m
How whiteness distorts our democracy, with Eddie Glaude Jr.
Apr 4, 2019 • 1h 31m
Pete Buttigieg’s theory of political change
Apr 1, 2019 • 1h 2m
Meet the policy architect behind the Green New Deal
Mar 28, 2019 • 1h 25m
The somewhat fractured state of American conservatism
Mar 25, 2019 • 1h 3m
American politics after Christianity, with Ross Douthat
Mar 21, 2019 • 1h 19m
Why Gov. Jay Inslee is running for president on climate change
Mar 18, 2019 • 1h 8m
ICYMI: Julia Galef
Mar 14, 2019 • 1h 34m
The roots of extremism, with Deeyah Khan
Mar 11, 2019 • 1h 25m
ICYMI: Paul Krugman
Mar 7, 2019 • 1h 39m
Pop music can make you smarter
Mar 6, 2019 • 21m
Life after climate change, with David Wallace-Wells
Mar 4, 2019 • 1h 14m
Pramila Jayapal thinks we can get to Medicare-for-All fast
Feb 28, 2019 • 1h 0m
Noah Rothman on the "unjustice" of social justice politics
Feb 25, 2019 • 1h 12m
Why should we care about deficits?
Feb 21, 2019 • 1h 8m
Anniversary special: Rachel Maddow
Feb 18, 2019 • 1h 43m
Andrew Sullivan and I work out our differences
Feb 14, 2019 • 2h 7m
The core contradiction of American politics
Feb 11, 2019 • 1h 9m
Leftists vs. liberals, with Elizabeth Bruenig
Feb 7, 2019 • 1h 21m
The world according to Ralph Nader
Feb 4, 2019 • 1h 26m
This conversation will change how you understand misogyny
Jan 31, 2019 • 2h 16m
Ending the age of animal cruelty, with Bruce Friedrich
Jan 28, 2019 • 1h 21m
Robert Sapolsky on the toxic intersection of poverty and stress
Jan 24, 2019 • 1h 21m
Frances Lee on why bipartisanship is irrational
Jan 21, 2019 • 1h 3m
Sean Decatur doesn’t see a free speech crisis on campus
Jan 17, 2019 • 1h 20m
Cal Newport has an answer for digital burnout
Jan 14, 2019 • 1h 11m
Eric Holder’s plan to save democracy
Jan 10, 2019 • 1h 6m
Anil Dash on the biases of tech
Jan 7, 2019 • 1h 22m
Jill Lepore on America’s two revolutions
Jan 3, 2019 • 1h 35m
Best of: N.K. Jemisin
Dec 31, 2018 • 1h 25m
Best-of: Bryan Stevenson
Dec 27, 2018 • 1h 34m
Kara Swisher interviews me on the Future of Journalism (Live!)
Dec 24, 2018 • 1h 35m
TED’s Chris Anderson on the lessons of listening
Dec 20, 2018 • 1h 11m
Rep. Katie Porter on how capitalism is failing
Dec 17, 2018 • 1h 21m
How Hasan Minhaj is reinventing political comedy
Dec 13, 2018 • 1h 44m
Adam Serwer on white political correctness
Dec 10, 2018 • 52m
Will Storr on why you are not yourself
Dec 6, 2018 • 1h 28m
How to be a better carnivore
Dec 3, 2018 • 32m
Peter Beinart on anti-Semitism in America and illiberalism in Israel
Nov 29, 2018 • 1h 28m
Where Jonathan Haidt thinks the American mind went wrong
Nov 26, 2018 • 1h 53m
The Impact: Deportation without representation
Nov 22, 2018 • 33m
Molly Ball on Nancy Pelosi’s future and Paul Ryan’s failure
Nov 19, 2018 • 1h 5m
Whitney Phillips explains how Trump controls the media
Nov 15, 2018 • 1h 52m
Ask Ezra Anything
Nov 12, 2018 • 1h 38m
Presidents in crisis with Slow Burn’s Leon Neyfakh
Nov 8, 2018 • 1h 26m
Sandy Darity has a plan to close the wealth gap
Nov 5, 2018 • 52m
How identity politics elected Donald Trump
Nov 1, 2018 • 1h 39m
Rep. Mark Sanford on losing the Republican Party to Donald Trump
Oct 29, 2018 • 1h 6m
Doris Kearns Goodwin (live!) on how great presidents are made
Oct 25, 2018 • 1h 24m
What Nate Silver's learned about forecasting elections
Oct 22, 2018 • 1h 21m
Jay Rosen is pessimistic about the media. So am I.
Oct 18, 2018 • 1h 24m
Why Bill Gates is worried
Oct 15, 2018 • 1h 1m
Reihan Salam makes the case against open borders
Oct 11, 2018 • 1h 32m
Jose Antonio Vargas on living undocumented in Trump’s America
Oct 8, 2018 • 1h 29m
Rebecca Traister: Women's rage is transforming America
Oct 4, 2018 • 1h 12m
Patrick Deneen says liberalism has failed. Is he right?
Oct 1, 2018 • 1h 2m
Francis Fukuyama’s case against identity politics
Sep 27, 2018 • 1h 34m
Carol Anderson on the myth of American democracy
Sep 24, 2018 • 57m
Martha C. Nussbaum on how fear deforms our politics
Sep 17, 2018 • 57m
David French on “The Great White Culture War"
Sep 10, 2018 • 1h 35m
Your attention is being hijacked. Chris Bailey can help.
Sep 4, 2018 • 1h 7m
Anand Giridharadas on the elite charade of changing the world
Aug 30, 2018 • 1h 35m
I build a world with fantasy master N.K. Jemisin
Aug 27, 2018 • 1h 25m
Reup: Zephyr Teachout vs. Corruption
Aug 24, 2018 • 1h 34m
Is our economy totally screwed? Andrew Yang and I debate.
Aug 20, 2018 • 1h 14m
Chef Marcus Samuelsson on immigration, creativity, and Anthony Bourdain
Aug 13, 2018 • 1h 14m
Why online politics gets so extreme so fast
Aug 6, 2018 • 1h 8m
Taking Trump’s corruption seriously
Aug 2, 2018 • 1h 7m
The surprising story of how American politics polarized
Jul 30, 2018 • 1h 7m
The most important idea for understanding American politics in 2018
Jul 23, 2018 • 1h 19m
What economists and politicians get wrong about trade
Jul 19, 2018 • 1h 0m
How to disagree better
Jul 16, 2018 • 1h 40m
Jaron Lanier’s case for deleting social media right now
Jul 9, 2018 • 1h 22m
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had about Trump and Russia (part 2)
Jul 5, 2018 • 1h 11m
The Supreme Court vs. Democracy
Jul 2, 2018 • 1h 9m
Eric Garcetti on the lessons of Los Angeles
Jun 25, 2018 • 1h 6m
What Ellen Pao saw coming
Jun 18, 2018 • 57m
The Green Pill
Jun 11, 2018 • 1h 3m
How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’s torture program, and the Kochs
Jun 4, 2018 • 1h 16m
Political power and the racial wealth gap
May 28, 2018 • 1h 22m
Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American complacency
May 21, 2018 • 1h 29m
A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
May 14, 2018 • 1h 25m
Optimism about America
May 7, 2018 • 1h 23m
The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter reflects on her coverage
May 3, 2018 • 1h 0m
The age of "mega-identity" politics
Apr 30, 2018 • 1h 19m
Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
Apr 23, 2018 • 1h 55m
Is modern society making us depressed?
Apr 16, 2018 • 1h 33m
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
Apr 12, 2018 • 1h 36m
The Sam Harris Debate
Apr 9, 2018 • 2h 14m
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and what comes next
Apr 2, 2018 • 51m
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Trump"?
Mar 26, 2018 • 1h 25m
A better conversation on guns
Mar 12, 2018 • 54m
This isn’t Joe Kennedy’s grandfather’s Democratic Party, and he knows it
Mar 5, 2018 • 1h 7m
Amy Chua on how tribalism is tearing America apart
Feb 26, 2018 • 1h 4m
How technology brings out the worst in us, with Tristan Harris
Feb 19, 2018 • 1h 14m
Steven Pinker: enlightenment values made this the best moment in human history
Feb 12, 2018 • 1h 11m
Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara
Feb 5, 2018 • 1h 16m
How Democracies Die
Jan 29, 2018 • 1h 17m
How to oppose Trump without becoming more like him
Jan 22, 2018 • 1h 15m
You will love this conversation with Jaron Lanier, but I can’t describe it
Jan 15, 2018 • 1h 41m
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had on Trump and Russia
Jan 8, 2018 • 1h 18m
The inside story of Doug Jones’s win in Alabama
Dec 25, 2017 • 1h 5m
What life is like in North Korea
Dec 18, 2017 • 52m
"An orgy of serious policy discussion" with Paul Krugman
Dec 11, 2017 • 1h 38m
The case for impeachment
Dec 4, 2017 • 1h 12m
What Buddhism got right about the human brain
Nov 27, 2017 • 1h 20m
Rebecca Traister on #MeToo, female rage, and Anita Hill’s legacy
Nov 20, 2017 • 1h 31m
Ai-jen Poo: the future of work isn’t robots. It’s caring humans.
Nov 13, 2017 • 1h 7m
Evan Osnos on the North Korea crisis, Trump’s mental health, and China's rise
Nov 6, 2017 • 1h 27m
Why politics needs more conflict, not less
Oct 30, 2017 • 1h 18m
Why the Weinstein scandal gives Tig Notaro hope about Hollywood
Oct 23, 2017 • 46m
What happens when human beings take control of their own evolution?
Oct 16, 2017 • 1h 7m
Ta-Nehisi Coates is not here to comfort you
Oct 9, 2017 • 1h 13m
How the Republican Party created Donald Trump
Oct 2, 2017 • 1h 51m
Reihan Salam wants to remake the Republican Party -- again
Sep 25, 2017 • 1h 21m
David Remnick on journalism in the Trump era and why he hires obsessives
Sep 19, 2017 • 1h 28m
What Hillary Clinton really thinks
Sep 12, 2017 • 1h 0m
Dan Rather thought he'd seen it all. But then came President Trump.
Sep 5, 2017 • 1h 11m
From 4Chan to Charlottesville: where the alt-right came from, and where it's going
Aug 29, 2017 • 1h 29m
Why prosecutors, not cops, are the keys to criminal justice reform
Aug 22, 2017 • 1h 19m
Chris Hayes on whether Trump should be removed from office
Aug 15, 2017 • 1h 9m
Sen. Michael Bennet on why this is a dismal, sociopathic era in Congress
Aug 8, 2017 • 1h 21m
What’s scary isn’t Trump’s illiberalism but America's acceptance of it
Aug 1, 2017 • 1h 7m
Julia Galef on how to argue better and change your mind more
Jul 25, 2017 • 1h 34m
Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia, the first psychologist to run a jail
Jul 18, 2017 • 1h 11m
Eddie Izzard on World War I, cake or death, and marathoning
Jul 11, 2017 • 1h 11m
Avik Roy and Ezra debate the Senate GOP's health bill
Jul 3, 2017 • 1h 29m
danah boyd on why fake news is so easy to believe
Jun 27, 2017 • 1h 30m
Al Franken on learning to be a politician
Jun 20, 2017 • 58m
Zephyr Teachout on suing Trump, fighting corruption, and breaking monopolies
Jun 13, 2017 • 1h 34m
Masha Gessen offers a plausible Trump-Russia theory
Jun 6, 2017 • 1h 8m
Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism
May 30, 2017 • 1h 9m
Yascha Mounk: Is Trump’s incompetence saving us from his illiberalism?
May 23, 2017 • 1h 36m
Bryan Stevenson on why the opposite of poverty isn’t wealth, but justice
May 16, 2017 • 1h 35m
Death, Sex, and Money’s Anna Sale on bringing empathy to politics
May 9, 2017 • 55m
Cory Booker returns, live, to talk trust, Trump, and basic incomes
May 4, 2017 • 1h 13m
VC Bill Gurley on transforming health care
May 2, 2017 • 1h 15m
Elizabeth Warren on what Barack Obama got wrong
Apr 25, 2017 • 49m
Cal Newport on doing Deep Work and escaping social media
Apr 18, 2017 • 1h 25m
G. Willow Wilson on religion, comics, and modern myths
Apr 11, 2017 • 1h 18m
Chris Hayes on the crisis of elites and the politics of order
Apr 4, 2017 • 1h 45m
Tyler Cowen explains it all
Mar 28, 2017 • 1h 36m
Molly Ball on whether facts matter in politics
Mar 21, 2017 • 1h 19m
Denis McDonough on how to run the White House
Mar 14, 2017 • 1h 24m
Cecile Richards on Planned Parenthood, labor organizing, and the Supreme Court
Mar 7, 2017 • 1h 17m
Tim Ferriss on suffering, psychedelics, and spirituality
Mar 2, 2017 • 1h 54m
Yuval Harari, author of “Sapiens,” on AI, religion, and 60-day meditation retreats
Feb 28, 2017 • 1h 12m
Elizabeth Drew covered Watergate. Here's what she thinks of Trump.
Feb 21, 2017 • 1h 14m
Avik Roy on why conservatives need to embrace diversity
Feb 14, 2017 • 1h 34m
Kara Swisher gives a master class on reporting and interviewing
Feb 7, 2017 • 1h 40m
David Miliband explains the global refugee crisis
Feb 2, 2017 • 52m
Jennifer Lawless on why you — yes, you — should run for office
Jan 31, 2017 • 1h 6m
JD Vance: the reluctant interpreter of Trumpism
Jan 24, 2017 • 1h 45m
Elizabeth Kolbert: We have locked in centuries of climate change
Jan 10, 2017 • 1h 24m
Sarah Kliff and Ezra Interview Obama About Obamacare
Jan 6, 2017 • 1h 18m
You Ask, Ezra Answers
Jan 3, 2017 • 1h 38m
Evelyn Farkas explains the crisis in Syria and the threat of Russia
Dec 27, 2016 • 1h 23m
Tim Wu's interesting, unusual, fascinating life
Dec 20, 2016 • 1h 34m
Ta-Nehisi Coates: "There’s not gonna be a happy ending to this story"
Dec 14, 2016 • 1h 46m
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison on management, rationalism, and the enlightenment
Dec 6, 2016 • 1h 32m
Award-winning chef José Andrés on cooking, creativity, and learning from the best
Nov 29, 2016 • 1h 32m
Heather McGhee returns to talk Trump, race, and empathy
Nov 22, 2016 • 1h 5m
Ron Brownstein: Clinton didn’t lose because of the white working class
Nov 15, 2016 • 1h 9m
David Frum on the 2016 election, and the long decline of the GOP
Nov 6, 2016 • 1h 37m
Deborah Tannen on gendered speech, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and you
Nov 1, 2016 • 1h 35m
Joseph Stiglitz on broken markets, bad trade deals, and basic incomes
Oct 25, 2016 • 1h 11m
Let's talk about Hillary Clinton's policy ideas, with Jonathan Cohn
Oct 18, 2016 • 1h 15m
Francis Fukuyama on whether America's democracy is decaying
Oct 11, 2016 • 1h 13m
Tyler Cowen interviews Ezra Klein about politics, media, and more
Oct 6, 2016 • 1h 18m
The best conversation I’ve had about the election, with Molly Ball
Oct 4, 2016 • 1h 14m
Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is health
Sep 20, 2016 • 1h 42m
Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump supporters
Sep 13, 2016 • 1h 1m
W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twitter, and fame
Aug 30, 2016 • 1h 33m
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining consensus opinions
Aug 23, 2016 • 1h 35m
Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conflicts
Aug 16, 2016 • 1h 31m
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, and connecting newsrooms
Aug 9, 2016 • 1h 25m
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, and indie music
Aug 2, 2016 • 1h 39m
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
Jul 26, 2016 • 1h 18m
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how the Republican Party lost its way
Jul 19, 2016 • 1h 19m
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
Jul 12, 2016 • 48m
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the science of flavor
Jul 5, 2016 • 46m
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong about racism
Jun 28, 2016 • 1h 19m
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lessons, and interrogating strangers
Jun 21, 2016 • 1h 3m
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, and modern feminism
Jun 14, 2016 • 1h 13m
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
Jun 7, 2016 • 1h 0m
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
May 31, 2016 • 1h 9m
Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks
May 17, 2016 • 1h 0m
Arianna Huffington on sleep, death, and social media
May 10, 2016 • 1h 26m
Bruce Friedrich on how technology will reduce animal suffering
Apr 26, 2016 • 1h 19m
Ben Thompson on how to make it in media in 2016
Apr 19, 2016 • 1h 37m
Ben Thompson on how the media business is changing
Apr 19, 2016 • 1h 37m
Grover Norquist explains what it takes to change American politics
Apr 12, 2016 • 1h 30m
Neera Tanden on what it's like to work for Hillary Clinton
Apr 5, 2016 • 1h 11m
David Chang, head of the Momofuku empire
Mar 29, 2016 • 1h 28m
Cory Booker on the spiritual dimension of politics
Mar 22, 2016 • 1h 50m
Michael Needham on the Republican Party's crack-up
Mar 15, 2016 • 1h 13m
Jim Yong Kim on revolutionizing how we treat the world's poor
Mar 8, 2016 • 1h 17m
Theda Skocpol on how political scientists think differently about politics
Mar 1, 2016 • 1h 3m
How lobbying works, with super-lobbyist Tony Podesta
Feb 16, 2016 • 59m
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