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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Julia Galef on how to argue better and change y...
88 min
577
Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia, the first psychologist t...
65 min
578
Eddie Izzard on World War I, cake or death, and...
65 min
579
Avik Roy and Ezra debate the Senate GOP's healt...
83 min
580
danah boyd on why fake news is so easy to believe
84 min
581
Al Franken on learning to be a politician
52 min
582
Zephyr Teachout on suing Trump, fighting corrup...
89 min
583
Masha Gessen offers a plausible Trump-Russia th...
63 min
584
Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism
63 min
585
Yascha Mounk: Is Trump’s incompetence saving us...
91 min
586
Bryan Stevenson on why the opposite of poverty ...
89 min
587
Death, Sex, and Money’s Anna Sale on bringing e...
50 min
588
Cory Booker returns, live, to talk trust, Trump...
67 min
589
VC Bill Gurley on transforming health care
69 min
590
Elizabeth Warren on what Barack Obama got wrong
43 min
591
Cal Newport on doing Deep Work and escaping soc...
80 min
592
G. Willow Wilson on religion, comics, and moder...
72 min
593
Chris Hayes on the crisis of elites and the pol...
99 min
594
Tyler Cowen explains it all
91 min
595
Molly Ball on whether facts matter in politics
73 min
596
Denis McDonough on how to run the White House
78 min
597
Cecile Richards on Planned Parenthood, labor or...
72 min
598
Tim Ferriss on suffering, psychedelics, and spi...
108 min
599
Yuval Harari, author of “Sapiens,” on AI, relig...
67 min
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Elizabeth Drew covered Watergate. Here's what s...
68 min