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
226
E.O. Wilson's plan to save the world
51 min
227
Workers of the world, stay home!
57 min
228
How progressives get back in the game
57 min
229
The highs and lows of the "creator economy"
44 min
230
Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now
55 min
231
The stories soul food tells
45 min
232
The paradox of American freedom
51 min
233
Nonbinary parenthood
55 min
234
John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist
61 min
235
The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care
57 min
236
How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation p...
52 min
237
Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom
How a former sharecropper disrupted American politics
54 min
238
What the internet took from us
53 min
239
Trapped inside with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi
43 min
240
Bryan Stevenson on the legacy of enslavement
57 min
241
What's your status?
51 min
242
Is there a hack for enlightenment?
59 min
243
Fighting a world on fire with fire
56 min
244
Revolutionary Love
51 min
245
How to make meaning out of suffering
52 min
246
Ken Burns's latest on The Greatest
62 min
247
The road from 9/11 to Donald Trump
62 min
248
Rep. Pramila Jayapal on immigrants and America ...
45 min
249
Why America's obsession with rights is wrong
52 min
250
The news is by — and for — rich, white liberals
57 min