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 Big Tech benefits from the disinformation p...
52 min
202
Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom
How a former sharecropper disrupted American politics
54 min
203
What the internet took from us
53 min
204
Trapped inside with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi
43 min
205
Bryan Stevenson on the legacy of enslavement
57 min
206
What's your status?
51 min
207
Is there a hack for enlightenment?
59 min
208
Fighting a world on fire with fire
56 min
209
Revolutionary Love
51 min
210
How to make meaning out of suffering
52 min
211
Ken Burns's latest on The Greatest
62 min
212
The road from 9/11 to Donald Trump
62 min
213
Rep. Pramila Jayapal on immigrants and America ...
45 min
214
Why America's obsession with rights is wrong
52 min
215
The news is by — and for — rich, white liberals
57 min
216
Clint Smith III on confronting the legacy of sl...
55 min
217
Was the cruelty the point?
55 min
218
How seashells shaped the world — and predict ou...
52 min
219
Bill Maher on free speech, comedy, and his haters
45 min
220
Robert Reich wants you to take on the system
48 min
221
Marty Baron on the future of news
49 min
222
The death of cool
43 min
223
We need to talk about UFOs. Seriously.
Professor Alex Wendt tells Sean Illing why he thinks the aliens might already be here
57 min
224
Philadelphia's progressive prosecutor
District attorney Larry Krasner talks about his reform agenda, rising gun violence, and how to take on the system
49 min
225
Fareed Zakaria on the fate of democracy
65 min