The Gray Area with Sean Illing

The Gray Area with Sean Illing takes a philosophy-minded look at culture, technology, politics, and the world of ideas. Each week, we invite a guest to explore a question or topic that matters. From the the state of democracy, to the struggle with depression and anxiety, to the nature of identity in the digital age, each episode looks for nuance and honesty in the most important conversations of our time. New episodes drop every Monday.

Philosophy
Politics
News Commentary
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How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’...
71 min
527
Political power and the racial wealth gap
77 min
528
Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American comp...
84 min
529
A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
79 min
530
Optimism about America
78 min
531
The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter refl...
55 min
532
The age of "mega-identity" politics
74 min
533
Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
110 min
534
Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained...
57 min
535
Is modern society making us depressed?
87 min
536
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min
537
The Sam Harris Debate
128 min
538
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and...
46 min
539
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Tru...
80 min
540
Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate chang...
50 min
541
A better conversation on guns
49 min
542
This isn’t Joe Kennedy’s grandfather’s Democrat...
61 min
543
Amy Chua on how tribalism is tearing America apart
59 min
544
How technology brings out the worst in us, with...
69 min
545
Steven Pinker: enlightenment values made this t...
65 min
546
Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara
71 min
547
How Democracies Die
72 min
548
How to oppose Trump without becoming more like him
69 min
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You will love this conversation with Jaron Lani...
95 min
550
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had on Tr...
73 min