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
526
What Ellen Pao saw coming
51 min
527
The Green Pill
57 min
528
How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’...
71 min
529
Political power and the racial wealth gap
77 min
530
Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American comp...
84 min
531
A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
79 min
532
Optimism about America
78 min
533
The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter refl...
55 min
534
The age of "mega-identity" politics
74 min
535
Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
110 min
536
Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained...
57 min
537
Is modern society making us depressed?
87 min
538
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min
539
The Sam Harris Debate
128 min
540
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and...
46 min
541
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Tru...
80 min
542
Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate chang...
50 min
543
A better conversation on guns
49 min
544
This isn’t Joe Kennedy’s grandfather’s Democrat...
61 min
545
Amy Chua on how tribalism is tearing America apart
59 min
546
How technology brings out the worst in us, with...
69 min
547
Steven Pinker: enlightenment values made this t...
65 min
548
Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara
71 min
549
How Democracies Die
72 min
550
How to oppose Trump without becoming more like him
69 min