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