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Podcast Profile: The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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677 episodes
2016 to 2024
Median: 66 minutes
Collections: Philosophy • SciPhi-Adjacent

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This podcast, "The Gray Area with Sean Illing," delivers a nuanced exploration of varied and complex topics ranging from culture, technology, and politics to psychology, philosophy, and the human experience. Hosted by Sean Illing, the podcast features thoughtful conversations with a diverse array of guests, including authors, psychologists, philosophers, historians, and scientists, each contributing their expertise to the discussions.

Recurring themes throughout the episodes include the profound impact of technology and digital media on society and mental health, as examined through smartphone usage among children and the potential of artificial intelligence. Psychological well-being is another significant focus, with episodes discussing the role of happiness, cynicism, optimism, and the effects of substances like psychedelics on learning and mental health.

The podcast frequently delves into philosophical discourse, bringing forward ideas from influential thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, George Orwell, and more contemporary voices, to scrutinize their relevance in today's world. Historical perspectives are also important, with episodes revisiting key figures and moments like Adam Smith's economic theories and the ideological impact of 1990s American politics on current events.

Another prominent subject is social issues, including the critique of modern capitalism, the exploration of political structures and their evolution, and the challenges of dealing with systemic inequality and authoritarianism. Discussions also cover personal and relational topics such as breaking family patterns, fostering significant friendships, and the secular search for meaning through poetry and spirituality.

Overall, this podcast presents in-depth conversations that ponder the significant questions and challenges of modern life, aiming to provide a deeper understanding and appreciation of the intricacies involved in each subject.

Episodes:

Happiness isn’t the goal 2024-Sep-30 53 minutes

A message from Sean 2024-Sep-27 1 minute

What if we get climate change right? 2024-Sep-23 48 minutes

Yuval Noah Harari on the eclipsing of human intelligence 2024-Sep-16 87 minutes

Why cynicism is bad for you 2024-Sep-09 58 minutes

Poetry as religion 2024-Sep-02 59 minutes

The jazz musician’s guide to the universe 2024-Aug-26 57 minutes

Revisiting the "father of capitalism" 2024-Aug-19 55 minutes

Breaking our family patterns 2024-Aug-12 66 minutes

Why Orwell matters 2024-Aug-05 56 minutes

The timebomb the founding fathers left us 2024-Jul-29 55 minutes

Swear like a philosopher 2024-Jul-22 44 minutes

Taking Nietzsche seriously 2024-Jul-15 62 minutes

What India teaches us about liberalism — and its decline 2024-Jul-08 46 minutes

1992: The year politics broke 2024-Jul-01 44 minutes

The existential struggle of being Black 2024-Jun-24 55 minutes

The world after nuclear war 2024-Jun-17 57 minutes

Gaza, Camus, and the logic of violence 2024-Jun-10 54 minutes

This is your kid on smartphones 2024-Jun-03 53 minutes

Life after death? 2024-May-20 52 minutes

The world after Ozempic 2024-May-13 50 minutes

UFOs, God, and the edge of understanding 2024-May-06 46 minutes

How to listen 2024-Apr-29 55 minutes

Everything's a cult now 2024-Apr-22 53 minutes

Fareed Zakaria on our revolutionary moment 2024-Apr-15 45 minutes

Life is hard. Can philosophy help? 2024-Apr-08 51 minutes

The American dream is a pyramid scheme 2024-Apr-01 46 minutes

The chaplain who doesn't believe in God 2024-Mar-25 48 minutes

Can a friend be our most significant other? 2024-Mar-18 50 minutes

The power of climate fiction 2024-Mar-11 47 minutes

The denial of death 2024-Mar-04 45 minutes

A brief history of extinction panics 2024-Feb-26 50 minutes

The new(ish) world order 2024-Feb-19 42 minutes

The free-market century is over 2024-Feb-12 54 minutes

Music and mysticism 2024-Feb-05 47 minutes

The case for banning...millionaires? 2024-Jan-29 53 minutes

The joy of uncertainty 2024-Jan-22 48 minutes

A pro-worker work ethic 2024-Jan-15 41 minutes

How psychedelics can reinvent learning 2024-Jan-08 37 minutes

Seeing ourselves through the darkness 2023-Dec-26 55 minutes

Living Mindfully 2023-Dec-18 41 minutes

Taking anarchism seriously 2023-Dec-11 50 minutes

3,000 years of The Iliad 2023-Dec-04 36 minutes

Late-stage liberalism 2023-Nov-27 53 minutes

The case against free will 2023-Nov-20 58 minutes

A Jew and a Muslim get honest about Israel and Gaza 2023-Nov-13 60 minutes

How to keep panic from attacking 2023-Nov-06 49 minutes

We Are What We Watch 2023-Oct-30 56 minutes

Werner Herzog’s ecstatic truth 2023-Oct-23 56 minutes

The lessons of Sam Bankman-Fried 2023-Oct-16 55 minutes

Is America getting meaner? 2023-Oct-02 54 minutes

Naomi Klein on her doppelganger (and yours) 2023-Sep-25 57 minutes

Should we press pause on AI? 2023-Sep-18 57 minutes

Democracy’s existential crisis 2023-Sep-11 51 minutes

Conservative socialism? 2023-Aug-28 55 minutes

The benefits of utopian thinking 2023-Aug-21 53 minutes

What Clarence Thomas really thinks 2023-Aug-14 63 minutes

The new crisis of masculinity 2023-Aug-07 61 minutes

How we all became a brand 2023-Jul-31 52 minutes

The therapeutic potential of MDMA 2023-Jul-24 47 minutes

Is the journey to self-discovery pointless? 2023-Jul-17 52 minutes

Parenting through the climate crisis 2023-Jul-10 47 minutes

Seeing ourselves through darkness 2023-Jun-29 56 minutes

Best of: A new philosophy of love 2023-Jun-26 59 minutes

The future of tribalism 2023-Jun-22 52 minutes

When you can't separate art from artist 2023-Jun-15 53 minutes

The case for not killing yourself 2023-Jun-12 57 minutes

What comes after Black Lives Matter? 2023-Jun-08 57 minutes

Clickbait’s destructive legacy 2023-Jun-05 52 minutes

Simone Weil’s radical philosophy of love and attention 2023-Jun-01 56 minutes

Peter Singer on his ethical legacy 2023-May-25 65 minutes

Why the poor in America stay poor 2023-May-22 54 minutes

The spiritual roots of our strange relationship to work 2023-May-18 53 minutes

Mysteries of the mind 2023-May-15 53 minutes

Why we can’t just blame capitalism for everything 2023-May-11 49 minutes

Being human in the age of AI 2023-May-08 53 minutes

A philosopher's psychedelic encounter with reality 2023-May-04 51 minutes

The project of Socratic love with Agnes Callard 2023-May-01 52 minutes

The chemistry of connection 2023-Apr-27 53 minutes

What a slow civil war looks like 2023-Apr-24 56 minutes

How to listen 2023-Apr-20 55 minutes

Why we can't give up on persuasion 2023-Apr-17 53 minutes

Rep. Katie Porter's working-class politics 2023-Apr-13 47 minutes

The climate apocalypse will be televised 2023-Apr-10 60 minutes

A philosopher takes on religious life 2023-Apr-06 53 minutes

Your brain isn't so private anymore 2023-Apr-03 65 minutes

Brian Stelter thinks the news has a reliability problem 2023-Mar-30 56 minutes

How corporations got all your data 2023-Mar-27 54 minutes

The case for failure 2023-Mar-16 48 minutes

Poetry as religion 2023-Mar-13 56 minutes

Revisiting the American Dream 2023-Mar-09 43 minutes

The cost of saving pandas 2023-Mar-06 45 minutes

Breaking our family patterns 2023-Mar-02 64 minutes

For Black horror fans, fact is scarier than fiction 2023-Feb-27 51 minutes

Taking Nietzsche seriously 2023-Feb-23 65 minutes

The dark history of Silicon Valley 2023-Feb-16 60 minutes

The value of being a "hater" 2023-Feb-13 55 minutes

Behind the blue wall 2023-Feb-09 62 minutes

Best of: Imagine a future with no police 2023-Feb-06 63 minutes

Is America broken? 2023-Feb-02 50 minutes

The creator of Fargo is done with good guys vs. bad guys 2023-Jan-30 55 minutes

Revisiting the "father of capitalism" 2023-Jan-26 53 minutes

Can effective altruism be redeemed? 2023-Jan-23 63 minutes

The roots of homelessness 2023-Jan-19 53 minutes

Can race be transcended? 2023-Jan-12 46 minutes

Is ethical AI possible? 2023-Jan-09 47 minutes

What do we owe animals? 2023-Jan-05 48 minutes

Best of: America's philosophy, with Cornel West 2022-Dec-22 61 minutes

Best of: The necessity — and danger — of free speech 2022-Dec-19 53 minutes

The church of celebrity 2022-Dec-15 57 minutes

Men and boys are struggling. Should we care? 2022-Dec-12 58 minutes

The power of attention in a world of distraction 2022-Dec-08 46 minutes

A veteran reporter on how to fix the news 2022-Dec-05 56 minutes

The end of social media 2022-Dec-01 50 minutes

If society is making us sick, how can we heal? 2022-Nov-28 57 minutes

The free-market century is over 2022-Nov-21 57 minutes

Your identity is a story you tell yourself 2022-Nov-17 45 minutes

James Carville unpacks the midterms 2022-Nov-14 49 minutes

Why are billionaires prepping for the apocalypse? 2022-Nov-10 55 minutes

Today's Republicans were made in the 1990s 2022-Nov-07 66 minutes

Yuval Noah Harari thinks humans are unstoppable 2022-Nov-03 62 minutes

Dying with dignity 2022-Oct-31 59 minutes

Finding hope in a world on the brink 2022-Oct-27 58 minutes

The new American Reconstruction 2022-Oct-24 67 minutes

Is America losing its religion? 2022-Oct-20 54 minutes

How we got to January 6th 2022-Oct-17 59 minutes

Neil deGrasse Tyson gets political 2022-Oct-13 58 minutes

Introducing The Gray Area 2022-Oct-11 1 minute

Best of: Why America's obsession with rights is wrong 2022-Oct-06 59 minutes

A GOP insider on why the party went Trump 2022-Oct-03 61 minutes

How do we fix the harm we cause? 2022-Sep-29 50 minutes

A new philosophy of love 2022-Sep-26 60 minutes

The politics of 'Yellowstone' 2022-Sep-23 26 minutes

How society sexualizes us 2022-Sep-22 56 minutes

The Parent Trap 2022-Sep-19 61 minutes

40 Acres: Reaching reconciliation 2022-Sep-15 34 minutes

40 Acres: The old Jim Crow 2022-Sep-12 48 minutes

40 Acres: $14 trillion and no mules 2022-Sep-08 50 minutes

40 Acres: The original promise 2022-Sep-01 55 minutes

What Clarence Thomas really thinks 2022-Aug-29 64 minutes

Even Better: Don't call it a budget 2022-Aug-25 47 minutes

The quest for authenticity 2022-Aug-22 51 minutes

Even Better: Setting your boundaries 2022-Aug-18 44 minutes

Your gut instinct is usually wrong 2022-Aug-15 55 minutes

Even Better: Workplace equality 2.0 2022-Aug-11 53 minutes

Why we're still postmodern (whatever that means) 2022-Aug-08 58 minutes

Even Better: Activism when you don't know where to start 2022-Aug-04 48 minutes

The Supreme Court's power grab 2022-Aug-01 65 minutes

How middlemen took over the economy 2022-Jul-28 66 minutes

The necessity — and danger — of free speech 2022-Jul-25 56 minutes

Hacking coral sex to save the reefs 2022-Jul-21 55 minutes

The price of keeping secrets 2022-Jul-18 52 minutes

Does China control Hollywood? 2022-Jul-14 64 minutes

Steve Bannon is still at war 2022-Jul-11 50 minutes

The Fortress of Solitude saw it all coming 2022-Jun-30 39 minutes

The Philosophers: Stoic revival 2022-Jun-27 65 minutes

Station Eleven's creator on the end of the world 2022-Jun-23 52 minutes

The racist origins of fat phobia 2022-Jun-16 54 minutes

The fight for Ukraine — and democracy 2022-Jun-13 54 minutes

The war on trans people 2022-Jun-09 55 minutes

Michael Ian Black on being a better man 2022-Jun-06 56 minutes

Carmen Maria Machado's haunted feminine 2022-Jun-02 42 minutes

The rise and fall of America's monuments 2022-May-26 50 minutes

The Philosophers: America's philosophy, with Cornel West 2022-May-23 61 minutes

Why accidents aren't accidental 2022-May-19 53 minutes

Rethinking the "end of history" 2022-May-16 62 minutes

Anita Hill finally gets even 2022-May-12 61 minutes

Elites have captured identity politics 2022-May-09 58 minutes

The moral dangers of dirty work 2022-May-05 59 minutes

Did the sexual revolution go wrong? 2022-May-02 58 minutes

Who decides how to conserve nature? 2022-Apr-28 56 minutes

The Philosophers: Loneliness and totalitarianism 2022-Apr-25 63 minutes

The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 4: The future of Europe 2022-Apr-21 64 minutes

Michael Lewis on why Americans distrust experts 2022-Apr-18 58 minutes

The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 3: The nuclear threat 2022-Apr-14 56 minutes

The case for regret 2022-Apr-11 51 minutes

The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 2: Sanctions 2022-Apr-07 61 minutes

The spirituality of parenting 2022-Apr-04 49 minutes

The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 1: Why did Putin go to war? 2022-Mar-31 61 minutes

The Philosophers: Resisting despair 2022-Mar-28 56 minutes

What happened to American conservatism? 2022-Mar-24 60 minutes

The limits of forgiveness 2022-Mar-21 52 minutes

The madness behind The Method 2022-Mar-17 68 minutes

David Cross is disappointed in you guys 2022-Mar-14 49 minutes

Author Kiley Reid on why we read novels 2022-Mar-10 47 minutes

The conversation about guns we're not having 2022-Mar-07 64 minutes

Why does middle school suck? 2022-Mar-03 65 minutes

Russia's war with Ukraine — and reality 2022-Feb-28 39 minutes

Robert Glasper on why Black Radio is back 2022-Feb-24 57 minutes

Could we lose delicious foods forever? 2022-Feb-17 66 minutes

What Don't Look Up is really about 2022-Feb-14 61 minutes

Democracy in crisis, part 2: The two-party problem 2022-Feb-10 58 minutes

Why we can't pay attention anymore 2022-Feb-07 64 minutes

Democracy in crisis, part 1: Ross Douthat isn't too worried 2022-Feb-03 66 minutes

Pod Save the Democrats 2022-Jan-31 60 minutes

A Yellowjackets creator spills his guts 2022-Jan-27 44 minutes

A scientist's case for "woo-woo" 2022-Jan-24 60 minutes

Imagine a future with no police 2022-Jan-20 65 minutes

Novelist Lauren Groff on the other Matrix 2022-Jan-13 47 minutes

Are we living in a simulation? 2022-Jan-10 68 minutes

Rep. Jamie Raskin on living through the unthinkable, twice 2022-Jan-06 57 minutes

Best of: Why fascism in America isn't going away 2022-Jan-03 49 minutes

Best of: Clint Smith III on confronting the legacy of slavery 2021-Dec-30 61 minutes

Best of: We need to talk about UFOs. Seriously. 2021-Dec-27 63 minutes

Chris Bosh on winning (and losing everything) 2021-Dec-23 58 minutes

The cult of toughness 2021-Dec-20 66 minutes

Is ethical investing a scam? 2021-Dec-16 57 minutes

The good life is painful 2021-Dec-13 55 minutes

The father of environmental justice 2021-Dec-09 50 minutes

Jill Lepore on Elon Musk's imaginary world 2021-Dec-06 63 minutes

E.O. Wilson's plan to save the world 2021-Dec-02 56 minutes

Workers of the world, stay home! 2021-Nov-29 62 minutes

How progressives get back in the game 2021-Nov-22 63 minutes

The highs and lows of the "creator economy" 2021-Nov-18 49 minutes

Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now 2021-Nov-15 60 minutes

The stories soul food tells 2021-Nov-11 51 minutes

The paradox of American freedom 2021-Nov-08 57 minutes

Nonbinary parenthood 2021-Nov-04 60 minutes

John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist 2021-Nov-01 66 minutes

The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care 2021-Oct-28 63 minutes

How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation panic 2021-Oct-25 58 minutes

Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom 2021-Oct-21 59 minutes

What the internet took from us 2021-Oct-18 58 minutes

Trapped inside with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi 2021-Oct-14 49 minutes

Bryan Stevenson on the legacy of enslavement 2021-Oct-07 63 minutes

What's your status? 2021-Oct-04 57 minutes

Is there a hack for enlightenment? 2021-Sep-30 65 minutes

Fighting a world on fire with fire 2021-Sep-27 62 minutes

Revolutionary Love 2021-Sep-23 57 minutes

How to make meaning out of suffering 2021-Sep-20 56 minutes

Ken Burns's latest on The Greatest 2021-Sep-16 67 minutes

The road from 9/11 to Donald Trump 2021-Sep-13 68 minutes

Rep. Pramila Jayapal on immigrants and America after 9/11 2021-Sep-09 51 minutes

Why America's obsession with rights is wrong 2021-Sep-02 58 minutes

The news is by — and for — rich, white liberals 2021-Aug-30 62 minutes

Clint Smith III on confronting the legacy of slavery 2021-Aug-26 61 minutes

Was the cruelty the point? 2021-Aug-23 61 minutes

How seashells shaped the world — and predict our future 2021-Aug-19 58 minutes

Bill Maher on free speech, comedy, and his haters 2021-Aug-16 50 minutes

Robert Reich wants you to take on the system 2021-Aug-12 53 minutes

Marty Baron on the future of news 2021-Aug-09 54 minutes

The death of cool 2021-Aug-05 48 minutes

We need to talk about UFOs. Seriously. 2021-Aug-02 62 minutes

Philadelphia's progressive prosecutor 2021-Jul-29 55 minutes

Fareed Zakaria on the fate of democracy 2021-Jul-26 71 minutes

Jane Goodall on the power of hope 2021-Jul-22 62 minutes

Why we love drugs 2021-Jul-19 63 minutes

The rugged majesty of revision 2021-Jul-15 60 minutes

How to forgive 2021-Jul-12 59 minutes

What makes a great conversation? 2021-Jul-08 22 minutes

Introducing: Now & Then 2021-Jul-01 58 minutes

The science of dating 2021-Jun-24 54 minutes

Honoring Juneteenth with Ibram X. Kendi 2021-Jun-17 53 minutes

Digital dictatorship 2021-Jun-10 59 minutes

The man who proposed reparations in the 1860s 2021-Jun-03 67 minutes

What pandemic recovery should look like 2021-May-27 56 minutes

The gift of getting old 2021-May-20 58 minutes

Freedom, and what it means to have a body 2021-May-13 56 minutes

Why are we so worried about Satan? 2021-May-06 64 minutes

How to be wrong less often 2021-Apr-29 54 minutes

The complicated history of wildlife conservation 2021-Apr-22 67 minutes

How to replace everything in the industrialized world 2021-Apr-15 63 minutes

Patricia Lockwood's big, beautiful internet brain 2021-Apr-08 57 minutes

Who is the real George Soros? 2021-Apr-01 58 minutes

Introducing Unexplainable 2021-Mar-27 28 minutes

The border, explained by someone who knows it intimately 2021-Mar-25 57 minutes

"Wintering," wisdom, and weathering life's darkest times 2021-Mar-18 68 minutes

Reframing America's race problem 2021-Mar-11 54 minutes

Who owns the Western? 2021-Mar-04 51 minutes

A Watchmen writer on race, TV, and tech giants 2021-Feb-25 54 minutes

Uncovering the history of psychedelics in Christianity 2021-Feb-18 53 minutes

Biden's immigration architect on racism, reform, and the Obama legacy 2021-Feb-11 64 minutes

The Capitol Siege and American Revolution 2021-Feb-04 46 minutes

Why fascism in Post-Trump America isn't going away 2021-Jan-28 45 minutes

The Joe Biden experience 2021-Jan-25 67 minutes

What it means to be a "good" rich person 2021-Jan-21 50 minutes

Peter Kafka and Kevin Roose on big tech's power and responsibility 2021-Jan-18 30 minutes

Sam Sanders and Olivia Nuzzi on President Trump’s last days 2021-Jan-14 46 minutes

Best of: We don’t just feel emotions. We make them. 2021-Jan-07 95 minutes

Best of: Ending the age of animal cruelty, with Bruce Friedrich 2021-Jan-04 81 minutes

Best of: The moral philosophy of The Good Place 2020-Dec-31 104 minutes

Best of: Michael Lewis reads my mind 2020-Dec-28 106 minutes

Best of: Tracy K. Smith changed how I read poetry 2020-Dec-24 90 minutes

What I’ve learned, and what comes next. 2020-Dec-21 41 minutes

Best of: An inspiring conversation about democracy with Danielle Allen 2020-Dec-17 72 minutes

Michael Pollan on the psychedelic society 2020-Dec-14 76 minutes

Best of: Robert Sapolsky on the toxic intersection of poverty and stress 2020-Dec-10 80 minutes

Joe Biden and "the new progressivism" 2020-Dec-07 63 minutes

Best of: Frances Lee on why bipartisanship is irrational 2020-Dec-03 59 minutes

The most important book I've read this year 2020-Nov-30 96 minutes

Best of: Alison Gopnik changed how I think about love 2020-Nov-26 95 minutes

Best of: Vivek Murthy on America’s loneliness epidemic 2020-Nov-23 81 minutes

What Democrats got wrong about Hispanic voters 2020-Nov-19 66 minutes

Antitrust, censorship, misinformation, and the 2020 election 2020-Nov-16 61 minutes

The crisis isn’t Trump. It’s the Republican Party. 2020-Nov-12 66 minutes

The Joe Biden experience 2020-Nov-07 68 minutes

Chris Hayes and I process this wild election 2020-Nov-05 65 minutes

Stacey Abrams on minority rule, voting rights, and the future of democracy 2020-Nov-02 70 minutes

Nate Silver on why 2020 isn't 2016 2020-Oct-29 71 minutes

Sarah Kliff grades Biden and Trump's health care plans 2020-Oct-26 78 minutes

Trumpism never existed. It was always just Trump. 2020-Oct-22 60 minutes

What should Democrats do about the Supreme Court? 2020-Oct-19 86 minutes

Marilynne Robinson on writing, metaphysics, and the Donald Trump dilemma 2020-Oct-15 75 minutes

The case for Trump’s foreign policy 2020-Oct-12 74 minutes

Fareed Zakaria on how Biden and Trump see the world 2020-Oct-08 81 minutes

How a climate bill becomes a reality 2020-Oct-05 87 minutes

The meat we eat affects us all 2020-Oct-02 35 minutes

A dark, dangerous debate 2020-Sep-30 74 minutes

A radical — or obvious? — plan to save American democracy 2020-Sep-28 71 minutes

RBG, minority rule, and our looming legitimacy crisis 2020-Sep-24 71 minutes

David French and I debate polarization, secession, and the filibuster 2020-Sep-21 93 minutes

The Matt Yglesias Show 2020-Sep-17 93 minutes

Race, policing, and the universal yearning for safety 2020-Sep-14 53 minutes

How to think about coronavirus risk in your life 2020-Sep-10 69 minutes

Black Republicans, Donald Trump, and America's "George Floyd moment" 2020-Sep-07 88 minutes

Andrew Yang on UBI, coronavirus, and his next job in politics 2020-Sep-03 89 minutes

Why the hell did America invade Iraq? 2020-Aug-31 81 minutes

How to decarbonize America — and create 25 million jobs 2020-Aug-27 70 minutes

Isabel Wilkerson wants to change how we understand race in America 2020-Aug-24 98 minutes

What it would take to end child poverty in America 2020-Aug-20 53 minutes

Hannah Gadsby on comedy, free speech, and living with autism 2020-Aug-17 93 minutes

What would Keynes do? 2020-Aug-13 104 minutes

A devastating indictment of the Republican Party 2020-Aug-10 61 minutes

How inequality and white identity politics feed each other 2020-Aug-06 78 minutes

Best of: Jia Tolentino on what happens when life is an endless performance 2020-Aug-03 105 minutes

Dadding out with Mike Birbiglia 2020-Jul-30 79 minutes

A rabbi explains how to make sense of suffering 2020-Jul-27 57 minutes

The crisis in the news 2020-Jul-23 52 minutes

Bryan Stevenson on how America can heal 2020-Jul-20 81 minutes

What a post-Trump Republican Party might look like 2020-Jul-16 81 minutes

Free speech, safety, and ‘the letter’ 2020-Jul-13 91 minutes

The frightening fragility of America's political institutions 2020-Jul-09 69 minutes

Can artificial intelligence be emotionally intelligent? 2020-Jul-06 78 minutes

Danielle Allen on the radicalism of the American revolution — and its lessons for today 2020-Jul-02 72 minutes

Land of the Giants: The Netflix Effect 2020-Jul-01 17 minutes

Nicholas Carr on deep reading and digital thinking 2020-Jun-29 72 minutes

Your questions, answered 2020-Jun-25 83 minutes

Which country has the world's best healthcare system? 2020-Jun-22 70 minutes

The transformative power of restorative justice 2020-Jun-18 74 minutes

Ross Douthat and I debate American decadence 2020-Jun-15 95 minutes

A serious conversation about UFOs 2020-Jun-11 89 minutes

A former prosecutor's case for prison abolition 2020-Jun-08 66 minutes

Why Ta-Nehisi Coates is hopeful 2020-Jun-04 92 minutes

Are humans fundamentally good? (with Rutger Bregman) 2020-Jun-01 99 minutes

From politician to priest 2020-May-28 124 minutes

Robert Frank's radical idea 2020-May-25 74 minutes

Why “essential” workers are treated as disposable 2020-May-21 72 minutes

"The world’s scariest economist” on coronavirus, innovation, and purpose 2020-May-18 84 minutes

A mind-bending conversation about quantum mechanics and parallel worlds 2020-May-14 82 minutes

Why the coronavirus is so deadly for black America 2020-May-11 82 minutes

Jenny Odell on nature, art, and burnout in quarantine 2020-May-07 68 minutes

An unusually honest conversation about wielding political power 2020-May-04 86 minutes

What should the media learn from coronavirus? 2020-Apr-30 96 minutes

Bill Gates’s vision for life beyond coronavirus 2020-Apr-27 54 minutes

An epic conversation with Madeline Miller 2020-Apr-23 82 minutes

The loneliness pandemic/Betraying “essential workers” 2020-Apr-20 49 minutes

Why Bernie Sanders lost and how progressives can still win 2020-Apr-16 101 minutes

Scott Gottlieb on how, and when, to end social distancing 2020-Apr-13 50 minutes

Toby Ord on existential risk, Donald Trump, and thinking in probabilities 2020-Apr-09 86 minutes

Elizabeth Warren has a plan for this, too 2020-Apr-06 53 minutes

What social solidarity demands of us in a pandemic 2020-Apr-02 67 minutes

Coronavirus has pushed US-China relations to their worst point since Mao 2020-Mar-30 61 minutes

Is the cure worse than the disease? 2020-Mar-26 67 minutes

An economic crisis like we’ve never seen 2020-Mar-23 85 minutes

"The virus is more patient than people are" 2020-Mar-19 80 minutes

A master class in organizing 2020-Mar-16 122 minutes

Weeds 2020: The coronavirus election 2020-Mar-14 54 minutes

Dan Pfeiffer on Joe Biden, beating Trump, and saving democracy 2020-Mar-12 98 minutes

Are you a "political hobbyist?" If so, you're the problem. 2020-Mar-09 85 minutes

What would a Sanders or Biden presidency look like? 2020-Mar-05 75 minutes

Rebecca Solnit on Harvey Weinstein, feminism, and social change 2020-Mar-02 107 minutes

Weeds 2020: The Bernie electability debate 2020-Feb-29 58 minutes

Tracy K. Smith changed how I read poetry 2020-Feb-27 89 minutes

Barbara Ehrenreich on UBI, class conflict, and collective joy 2020-Feb-24 68 minutes

What Donald Trump got right about white America 2020-Feb-20 74 minutes

Ta-Nehisi Coates on my “cold, atheist book” 2020-Feb-17 75 minutes

If God is dead, then … socialism? 2020-Feb-13 65 minutes

Tim Urban on humanity’s wild future 2020-Feb-10 90 minutes

Jill Lepore on what I get wrong 2020-Feb-06 85 minutes

Is Tom Steyer the solution to our dysfunctional politics? 2020-Feb-03 66 minutes

Why We're Polarized, with Jamelle Bouie (live!) 2020-Jan-30 76 minutes

Antisemitism now, antisemitism then 2020-Jan-27 91 minutes

Book excerpt: A better theory of identity politics 2020-Jan-23 64 minutes

The war on Muslims (with Mehdi Hasan) 2020-Jan-20 90 minutes

Post-debate special! 2020-Jan-16 60 minutes

An “uncomfortable” conversation with Cory Booker 2020-Jan-13 93 minutes

The conservative mind of Yuval Levin 2020-Jan-09 81 minutes

How an epidemic begins and ends 2020-Jan-08 37 minutes

Nathan Robinson’s case for socialism 2020-Jan-06 103 minutes

How to topple dictators and transform society (with Erica Chenoweth) 2020-Jan-02 47 minutes

Ask Ezra Anything 2019-Dec-30 94 minutes

Best of: Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle 2019-Dec-26 77 minutes

Republicans vs. the planet 2019-Dec-23 103 minutes

The geoengineering question 2019-Dec-19 76 minutes

How to solve climate change and make life more awesome 2019-Dec-16 96 minutes

Paul Krugman on climate, robots, single-payer, and so much more 2019-Dec-12 90 minutes

The moral philosophy of The Good Place (with Mike Schur and Pamela Hieronymi) 2019-Dec-09 104 minutes

When doing the right thing makes you a criminal 2019-Dec-05 105 minutes

Peter Singer on the lives you can save 2019-Dec-02 79 minutes

Best of: The age of "mega-identity" politics 2019-Nov-28 76 minutes

Because podcast 2019-Nov-25 82 minutes

There’s more to life than profit 2019-Nov-21 94 minutes

Having a bad day? Dave Eggers can help. 2019-Nov-18 85 minutes

How Whole Foods, yoga, and NPR became the hallmarks of the elite 2019-Nov-14 73 minutes

How social media makes us antisocial 2019-Nov-11 95 minutes

ICYMI: Edward Norton’s theory of mind, movies, and power 2019-Nov-08 113 minutes

Introducing Reset 2019-Nov-08 42 minutes

What a smarter Trumpism would sound like 2019-Nov-07 87 minutes

The climate crisis is an oceans crisis 2019-Nov-04 74 minutes

We live in The Good Place. And we’re screwing it up. 2019-Oct-28 87 minutes

Neoliberalism and its discontents 2019-Oct-24 94 minutes

The four words that will decide impeachment 2019-Oct-21 55 minutes

We don’t just feel emotions. We make them. 2019-Oct-17 95 minutes

How politics became a war against reality 2019-Oct-14 89 minutes

The loneliness epidemic 2019-Oct-10 81 minutes

Ibram X. Kendi wants to redefine racism 2019-Oct-07 91 minutes

Malcolm Gladwell’s Stranger Things 2019-Oct-03 97 minutes

An inspiring conversation about democracy 2019-Sep-30 92 minutes

Samantha Power’s journey from foreign policy critic to UN ambassador 2019-Sep-26 93 minutes

When meritocracy wins, everybody loses 2019-Sep-23 91 minutes

Nikole Hannah-Jones on the 1619 project, choosing schools, and Cuba 2019-Sep-19 104 minutes

Randall Munroe, the genius behind XKCD 2019-Sep-16 87 minutes

Julián Castro's quiet moral radicalism 2019-Sep-12 67 minutes

Political animals (with Leah Garcés) 2019-Sep-09 92 minutes

John McWhorter thinks we're getting racism wrong 2019-Sep-05 69 minutes

The rocky marriage between libertarians and conservatives 2019-Sep-02 88 minutes

A mind-bending, reality-warping conversation with John Higgs 2019-Aug-29 91 minutes

Jia Tolentino on what happens when life is an endless performance 2019-Aug-26 104 minutes

The original meaning of “identity politics” (with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor) 2019-Aug-22 84 minutes

Are bosses dictators? (with Elizabeth Anderson) 2019-Aug-19 90 minutes

The Constitution is a progressive document 2019-Aug-15 62 minutes

Matt Bruenig’s case for single-payer health care 2019-Aug-12 124 minutes

Can Raj Chetty save the American dream? 2019-Aug-08 82 minutes

Astra Taylor will change how you think about democracy 2019-Aug-05 81 minutes

Is big tech addictive? Nir Eyal and I debate. 2019-Aug-01 79 minutes

Generation Climate Change 2019-Jul-29 97 minutes

Is the media amplifying Trump’s racism? (with Whitney Phillips) 2019-Jul-25 87 minutes

Rutger Bregman’s utopias, and mine 2019-Jul-22 92 minutes

How white identity politics won the Republican civil war 2019-Jul-18 88 minutes

George Will makes the conservative case against democracy 2019-Jul-15 76 minutes

What deliberative democracy can, and can’t, do (with Jane Mansbridge) 2019-Jul-11 56 minutes

Rod Dreher on America’s post-Christian culture war [CORRECTED] 2019-Jul-08 115 minutes

White threat in a browning America (Jennifer Richeson re-air) 2019-Jul-04 78 minutes

Behind the panic in white, Christian America 2019-Jul-01 96 minutes

An enlightening, frustrating conversation on liberalism (with Adam Gopnik) 2019-Jun-27 111 minutes

The cognitive cost of poverty (with Sendhil Mullainathan) 2019-Jun-24 99 minutes

Failing towards Utopia 2019-Jun-21 20 minutes

Why liberals and conservatives create such different media (with Danna Young) 2019-Jun-20 96 minutes

Stacey Abrams and Lauren Groh-Wargo (Live!) 2019-Jun-17 64 minutes

This changed how I think about love (with Alison Gopnik) 2019-Jun-13 94 minutes

The plan behind Elizabeth Warren’s plans 2019-Jun-10 54 minutes

Michael Lewis reads my mind 2019-Jun-06 103 minutes

How Mitch McConnell convinced Michael Bennet to run for president 2019-Jun-03 78 minutes

How the brains of master meditators change 2019-May-30 70 minutes

Why good people are easily corrupted (with Lawrence Lessig) 2019-May-27 84 minutes

The art of attention (with Jenny Odell) 2019-May-23 86 minutes

Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housing crisis 2019-May-20 65 minutes

What kind of news is cable news? (With Brian Stelter) 2019-May-16 87 minutes

Contrapoints on taking the trolls seriously 2019-May-13 81 minutes

The purpose of political violence 2019-May-09 81 minutes

Ask Ezra Anything 3: Endgame 2019-May-06 96 minutes

The disillusionment of David Brooks 2019-May-02 98 minutes

Emily Oster schools me on parenthood 2019-Apr-29 57 minutes

Lessons from Vox’s first 5 years 2019-Apr-25 95 minutes

Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle 2019-Apr-22 84 minutes

How social democrats won Europe — then lost it 2019-Apr-18 69 minutes

In defense of white-backlash politics 2019-Apr-15 101 minutes

Identity, nationalism, and fatherhood 2019-Apr-11 108 minutes

An ex-libertarian’s quest to rebuild the center right 2019-Apr-08 86 minutes

How whiteness distorts our democracy, with Eddie Glaude Jr. 2019-Apr-04 91 minutes

Pete Buttigieg’s theory of political change 2019-Apr-01 62 minutes

Meet the policy architect behind the Green New Deal 2019-Mar-28 85 minutes

The somewhat fractured state of American conservatism 2019-Mar-25 63 minutes

American politics after Christianity, with Ross Douthat 2019-Mar-21 79 minutes

Why Gov. Jay Inslee is running for president on climate change 2019-Mar-18 68 minutes

ICYMI: Julia Galef 2019-Mar-14 94 minutes

The roots of extremism, with Deeyah Khan 2019-Mar-11 85 minutes

ICYMI: Paul Krugman 2019-Mar-07 99 minutes

Pop music can make you smarter 2019-Mar-06 21 minutes

Life after climate change, with David Wallace-Wells 2019-Mar-04 74 minutes

Pramila Jayapal thinks we can get to Medicare-for-All fast 2019-Feb-28 60 minutes

Noah Rothman on the "unjustice" of social justice politics 2019-Feb-25 72 minutes

Why should we care about deficits? 2019-Feb-21 68 minutes

Anniversary special: Rachel Maddow 2019-Feb-18 103 minutes

Andrew Sullivan and I work out our differences 2019-Feb-14 127 minutes

The core contradiction of American politics 2019-Feb-11 69 minutes

Leftists vs. liberals, with Elizabeth Bruenig 2019-Feb-07 81 minutes

The world according to Ralph Nader 2019-Feb-04 86 minutes

This conversation will change how you understand misogyny 2019-Jan-31 136 minutes

Ending the age of animal cruelty, with Bruce Friedrich 2019-Jan-28 81 minutes

Robert Sapolsky on the toxic intersection of poverty and stress 2019-Jan-24 81 minutes

Frances Lee on why bipartisanship is irrational 2019-Jan-21 63 minutes

Sean Decatur doesn’t see a free speech crisis on campus 2019-Jan-17 80 minutes

Cal Newport has an answer for digital burnout 2019-Jan-14 71 minutes

Eric Holder’s plan to save democracy 2019-Jan-10 66 minutes

Anil Dash on the biases of tech 2019-Jan-07 82 minutes

Jill Lepore on America’s two revolutions 2019-Jan-03 95 minutes

Best of: N.K. Jemisin 2018-Dec-31 85 minutes

Best-of: Bryan Stevenson 2018-Dec-27 94 minutes

Kara Swisher interviews me on the Future of Journalism (Live!) 2018-Dec-24 95 minutes

TED’s Chris Anderson on the lessons of listening 2018-Dec-20 71 minutes

Rep. Katie Porter on how capitalism is failing 2018-Dec-17 81 minutes

How Hasan Minhaj is reinventing political comedy 2018-Dec-13 104 minutes

Adam Serwer on white political correctness 2018-Dec-10 52 minutes

Will Storr on why you are not yourself 2018-Dec-06 88 minutes

How to be a better carnivore 2018-Dec-03 32 minutes

Peter Beinart on anti-Semitism in America and illiberalism in Israel 2018-Nov-29 88 minutes

Where Jonathan Haidt thinks the American mind went wrong 2018-Nov-26 113 minutes

The Impact: Deportation without representation 2018-Nov-22 33 minutes

Molly Ball on Nancy Pelosi’s future and Paul Ryan’s failure 2018-Nov-19 65 minutes

Whitney Phillips explains how Trump controls the media 2018-Nov-15 112 minutes

Ask Ezra Anything 2018-Nov-12 98 minutes

Presidents in crisis with Slow Burn’s Leon Neyfakh 2018-Nov-08 86 minutes

Sandy Darity has a plan to close the wealth gap 2018-Nov-05 52 minutes

How identity politics elected Donald Trump 2018-Nov-01 99 minutes

Rep. Mark Sanford on losing the Republican Party to Donald Trump 2018-Oct-29 66 minutes

Doris Kearns Goodwin (live!) on how great presidents are made 2018-Oct-25 84 minutes

What Nate Silver's learned about forecasting elections 2018-Oct-22 81 minutes

Jay Rosen is pessimistic about the media. So am I. 2018-Oct-18 84 minutes

Why Bill Gates is worried 2018-Oct-15 61 minutes

Reihan Salam makes the case against open borders 2018-Oct-11 92 minutes

Jose Antonio Vargas on living undocumented in Trump’s America 2018-Oct-08 89 minutes

Rebecca Traister: Women's rage is transforming America 2018-Oct-04 72 minutes

Patrick Deneen says liberalism has failed. Is he right? 2018-Oct-01 62 minutes

Francis Fukuyama’s case against identity politics 2018-Sep-27 94 minutes

Carol Anderson on the myth of American democracy 2018-Sep-24 57 minutes

Martha C. Nussbaum on how fear deforms our politics 2018-Sep-17 57 minutes

David French on “The Great White Culture War" 2018-Sep-10 95 minutes

Your attention is being hijacked. Chris Bailey can help. 2018-Sep-04 67 minutes

Anand Giridharadas on the elite charade of changing the world 2018-Aug-30 95 minutes

I build a world with fantasy master N.K. Jemisin 2018-Aug-27 85 minutes

Reup: Zephyr Teachout vs. Corruption 2018-Aug-24 94 minutes

Is our economy totally screwed? Andrew Yang and I debate. 2018-Aug-20 74 minutes

Chef Marcus Samuelsson on immigration, creativity, and Anthony Bourdain 2018-Aug-13 74 minutes

Why online politics gets so extreme so fast 2018-Aug-06 68 minutes

Taking Trump’s corruption seriously 2018-Aug-02 67 minutes

The surprising story of how American politics polarized 2018-Jul-30 67 minutes

The most important idea for understanding American politics in 2018 2018-Jul-23 79 minutes

What economists and politicians get wrong about trade 2018-Jul-19 60 minutes

How to disagree better 2018-Jul-16 100 minutes

Jaron Lanier’s case for deleting social media right now 2018-Jul-09 82 minutes

The most clarifying conversation I’ve had about Trump and Russia (part 2) 2018-Jul-05 71 minutes

The Supreme Court vs. Democracy 2018-Jul-02 69 minutes

Eric Garcetti on the lessons of Los Angeles 2018-Jun-25 66 minutes

What Ellen Pao saw coming 2018-Jun-18 57 minutes

The Green Pill 2018-Jun-11 63 minutes

How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’s torture program, and the Kochs 2018-Jun-04 76 minutes

Political power and the racial wealth gap 2018-May-28 82 minutes

Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American complacency 2018-May-21 89 minutes

A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan 2018-May-14 85 minutes

Optimism about America 2018-May-07 83 minutes

The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter reflects on her coverage 2018-May-03 60 minutes

The age of "mega-identity" politics 2018-Apr-30 79 minutes

Is American democracy really in decline? A debate. 2018-Apr-23 115 minutes

Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained by a UN diplomat who saw it start 2018-Apr-20 57 minutes

Is modern society making us depressed? 2018-Apr-16 93 minutes

Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump 2018-Apr-12 96 minutes

The Sam Harris Debate 2018-Apr-09 134 minutes

Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and what comes next 2018-Apr-02 51 minutes

Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Trump"? 2018-Mar-26 85 minutes

Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate change, ending malaria, and the problems money can’t solve 2018-Mar-19 55 minutes

A better conversation on guns 2018-Mar-12 54 minutes

This isn’t Joe Kennedy’s grandfather’s Democratic Party, and he knows it 2018-Mar-05 67 minutes

Amy Chua on how tribalism is tearing America apart 2018-Feb-26 64 minutes

How technology brings out the worst in us, with Tristan Harris 2018-Feb-19 74 minutes

Steven Pinker: enlightenment values made this the best moment in human history 2018-Feb-12 71 minutes

Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara 2018-Feb-05 76 minutes

How Democracies Die 2018-Jan-29 77 minutes

How to oppose Trump without becoming more like him 2018-Jan-22 75 minutes

You will love this conversation with Jaron Lanier, but I can’t describe it 2018-Jan-15 101 minutes

The most clarifying conversation I’ve had on Trump and Russia 2018-Jan-08 78 minutes

Pod Save America’s Jon Favreau on Trump’s first year, the GOP’s “rot,” and the left’s failures 2018-Jan-02 64 minutes

The inside story of Doug Jones’s win in Alabama 2017-Dec-25 65 minutes

What life is like in North Korea 2017-Dec-18 52 minutes

"An orgy of serious policy discussion" with Paul Krugman 2017-Dec-11 98 minutes

The case for impeachment 2017-Dec-04 72 minutes

What Buddhism got right about the human brain 2017-Nov-27 80 minutes

Rebecca Traister on #MeToo, female rage, and Anita Hill’s legacy 2017-Nov-20 91 minutes

Ai-jen Poo: the future of work isn’t robots. It’s caring humans. 2017-Nov-13 67 minutes

Evan Osnos on the North Korea crisis, Trump’s mental health, and China's rise 2017-Nov-06 87 minutes

Why politics needs more conflict, not less 2017-Oct-30 78 minutes

Why the Weinstein scandal gives Tig Notaro hope about Hollywood 2017-Oct-23 46 minutes

What happens when human beings take control of their own evolution? 2017-Oct-16 67 minutes

Ta-Nehisi Coates is not here to comfort you 2017-Oct-09 73 minutes

How the Republican Party created Donald Trump 2017-Oct-02 111 minutes

Reihan Salam wants to remake the Republican Party -- again 2017-Sep-25 81 minutes

David Remnick on journalism in the Trump era and why he hires obsessives 2017-Sep-19 88 minutes

What Hillary Clinton really thinks 2017-Sep-12 60 minutes

Dan Rather thought he'd seen it all. But then came President Trump. 2017-Sep-05 71 minutes

From 4Chan to Charlottesville: where the alt-right came from, and where it's going 2017-Aug-29 89 minutes

Why prosecutors, not cops, are the keys to criminal justice reform 2017-Aug-22 79 minutes

Chris Hayes on whether Trump should be removed from office 2017-Aug-15 69 minutes

Sen. Michael Bennet on why this is a dismal, sociopathic era in Congress 2017-Aug-08 81 minutes

What’s scary isn’t Trump’s illiberalism but America's acceptance of it 2017-Aug-01 67 minutes

Julia Galef on how to argue better and change your mind more 2017-Jul-25 94 minutes

Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia, the first psychologist to run a jail 2017-Jul-18 71 minutes

Eddie Izzard on World War I, cake or death, and marathoning 2017-Jul-11 71 minutes

Avik Roy and Ezra debate the Senate GOP's health bill 2017-Jul-03 89 minutes

danah boyd on why fake news is so easy to believe 2017-Jun-27 90 minutes

Al Franken on learning to be a politician 2017-Jun-20 58 minutes

Zephyr Teachout on suing Trump, fighting corruption, and breaking monopolies 2017-Jun-13 94 minutes

Masha Gessen offers a plausible Trump-Russia theory 2017-Jun-06 68 minutes

Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism 2017-May-30 69 minutes

Yascha Mounk: Is Trump’s incompetence saving us from his illiberalism? 2017-May-23 96 minutes

Bryan Stevenson on why the opposite of poverty isn’t wealth, but justice 2017-May-16 95 minutes

Death, Sex, and Money’s Anna Sale on bringing empathy to politics 2017-May-09 55 minutes

Cory Booker returns, live, to talk trust, Trump, and basic incomes 2017-May-04 73 minutes

VC Bill Gurley on transforming health care 2017-May-02 75 minutes

Elizabeth Warren on what Barack Obama got wrong 2017-Apr-25 49 minutes

Cal Newport on doing Deep Work and escaping social media 2017-Apr-18 85 minutes

G. Willow Wilson on religion, comics, and modern myths 2017-Apr-11 78 minutes

Chris Hayes on the crisis of elites and the politics of order 2017-Apr-04 105 minutes

Tyler Cowen explains it all 2017-Mar-28 96 minutes

Molly Ball on whether facts matter in politics 2017-Mar-21 79 minutes

Denis McDonough on how to run the White House 2017-Mar-14 84 minutes

Cecile Richards on Planned Parenthood, labor organizing, and the Supreme Court 2017-Mar-07 77 minutes

Tim Ferriss on suffering, psychedelics, and spirituality 2017-Mar-02 114 minutes

Yuval Harari, author of “Sapiens,” on AI, religion, and 60-day meditation retreats 2017-Feb-28 72 minutes

Elizabeth Drew covered Watergate. Here's what she thinks of Trump. 2017-Feb-21 74 minutes

Avik Roy on why conservatives need to embrace diversity 2017-Feb-14 94 minutes

Kara Swisher gives a master class on reporting and interviewing 2017-Feb-07 100 minutes

David Miliband explains the global refugee crisis 2017-Feb-02 52 minutes

Jennifer Lawless on why you — yes, you — should run for office 2017-Jan-31 66 minutes

JD Vance: the reluctant interpreter of Trumpism 2017-Jan-24 105 minutes

Keith Ellison: The Democratic National Committee has become the Democratic Presidential Committee, and that needs to end 2017-Jan-17 66 minutes

Elizabeth Kolbert: We have locked in centuries of climate change 2017-Jan-10 84 minutes

Sarah Kliff and Ezra Interview Obama About Obamacare 2017-Jan-06 78 minutes

You Ask, Ezra Answers 2017-Jan-03 98 minutes

Evelyn Farkas explains the crisis in Syria and the threat of Russia 2016-Dec-27 83 minutes

Tim Wu's interesting, unusual, fascinating life 2016-Dec-20 94 minutes

Ta-Nehisi Coates: "There’s not gonna be a happy ending to this story" 2016-Dec-14 106 minutes

Stripe CEO Patrick Collison on management, rationalism, and the enlightenment 2016-Dec-06 92 minutes

Award-winning chef José Andrés on cooking, creativity, and learning from the best 2016-Nov-29 92 minutes

Heather McGhee returns to talk Trump, race, and empathy 2016-Nov-22 65 minutes

Ron Brownstein: Clinton didn’t lose because of the white working class 2016-Nov-15 69 minutes

David Frum on the 2016 election, and the long decline of the GOP 2016-Nov-06 97 minutes

Deborah Tannen on gendered speech, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and you 2016-Nov-01 95 minutes

Joseph Stiglitz on broken markets, bad trade deals, and basic incomes 2016-Oct-25 71 minutes

Let's talk about Hillary Clinton's policy ideas, with Jonathan Cohn 2016-Oct-18 75 minutes

Francis Fukuyama on whether America's democracy is decaying 2016-Oct-11 73 minutes

Tyler Cowen interviews Ezra Klein about politics, media, and more 2016-Oct-06 78 minutes

The best conversation I’ve had about the election, with Molly Ball 2016-Oct-04 74 minutes

HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell on running Obamacare, Medicare, and Medicaid 2016-Sep-27 47 minutes

Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is health 2016-Sep-20 102 minutes

Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump supporters 2016-Sep-13 61 minutes

Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning from games, and finding your online identity 2016-Sep-06 96 minutes

W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twitter, and fame 2016-Aug-30 93 minutes

Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining consensus opinions 2016-Aug-23 95 minutes

Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conflicts 2016-Aug-16 91 minutes

Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, and connecting newsrooms 2016-Aug-09 85 minutes

Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, and indie music 2016-Aug-02 99 minutes

Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show 2016-Jul-26 78 minutes

Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how the Republican Party lost its way 2016-Jul-19 79 minutes

Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton. 2016-Jul-12 48 minutes

Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the science of flavor 2016-Jul-05 46 minutes

Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong about racism 2016-Jun-28 79 minutes

Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lessons, and interrogating strangers 2016-Jun-21 63 minutes

Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, and modern feminism 2016-Jun-14 73 minutes

Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art 2016-Jun-07 60 minutes

Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez 2016-May-31 69 minutes

Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing political correctness, and Donald Trump 2016-May-24 116 minutes

Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks 2016-May-17 60 minutes

Arianna Huffington on sleep, death, and social media 2016-May-10 86 minutes

Robert Reich on supporting Bernie Sanders, dating Hillary Clinton, and fighting inequality 2016-May-03 104 minutes

Bruce Friedrich on how technology will reduce animal suffering 2016-Apr-26 79 minutes

Ben Thompson on how to make it in media in 2016 2016-Apr-19 97 minutes

Ben Thompson on how the media business is changing 2016-Apr-19 97 minutes

Grover Norquist explains what it takes to change American politics 2016-Apr-12 90 minutes

Neera Tanden on what it's like to work for Hillary Clinton 2016-Apr-05 71 minutes

David Chang, head of the Momofuku empire 2016-Mar-29 88 minutes

Cory Booker on the spiritual dimension of politics 2016-Mar-22 110 minutes

Michael Needham on the Republican Party's crack-up 2016-Mar-15 73 minutes

Jim Yong Kim on revolutionizing how we treat the world's poor 2016-Mar-08 77 minutes

Theda Skocpol on how political scientists think differently about politics 2016-Mar-01 63 minutes

Bill Gates on stopping climate change, building robots, and the best books he's read 2016-Feb-23 44 minutes

How lobbying works, with super-lobbyist Tony Podesta 2016-Feb-16 59 minutes

Rachel Maddow on skinhead rallies, AIDS activism, and why she doesn't read op-eds 2016-Feb-09 106 minutes