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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Novelist Lauren Groff on the other Matrix
42 min
227
Are we living in a simulation?
Philosopher David Chalmers on the question: what is reality, anyway?
63 min
228
Rep. Jamie Raskin on living through the unthink...
52 min
229
Best of: Why fascism in America isn't going away
44 min
230
Best of: Clint Smith III on confronting the leg...
56 min
231
Best of: We need to talk about UFOs. Seriously.
Professor Alex Wendt tells Sean Illing why he thinks the aliens might already be here
57 min
232
Chris Bosh on winning (and losing everything)
53 min
233
The cult of toughness
61 min
234
Is ethical investing a scam?
52 min
235
The good life is painful
49 min
236
The father of environmental justice
45 min
237
Jill Lepore on Elon Musk's imaginary world
57 min
238
E.O. Wilson's plan to save the world
51 min
239
Workers of the world, stay home!
57 min
240
How progressives get back in the game
57 min
241
The highs and lows of the "creator economy"
44 min
242
Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now
55 min
243
The stories soul food tells
45 min
244
The paradox of American freedom
51 min
245
Nonbinary parenthood
55 min
246
John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist
61 min
247
The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care
57 min
248
How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation p...
52 min
249
Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom
How a former sharecropper disrupted American politics
54 min
250
What the internet took from us
53 min