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