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
Pod Save the Democrats
55 min
227
A Yellowjackets creator spills his guts
39 min
228
A scientist's case for "woo-woo"
55 min
229
Imagine a future with no police
59 min
230
Novelist Lauren Groff on the other Matrix
42 min
231
Are we living in a simulation?
Philosopher David Chalmers on the question: what is reality, anyway?
63 min
232
Rep. Jamie Raskin on living through the unthink...
52 min
233
Best of: Why fascism in America isn't going away
44 min
234
Best of: Clint Smith III on confronting the leg...
56 min
235
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
236
Chris Bosh on winning (and losing everything)
53 min
237
The cult of toughness
61 min
238
Is ethical investing a scam?
52 min
239
The good life is painful
49 min
240
The father of environmental justice
45 min
241
Jill Lepore on Elon Musk's imaginary world
57 min
242
E.O. Wilson's plan to save the world
51 min
243
Workers of the world, stay home!
57 min
244
How progressives get back in the game
57 min
245
The highs and lows of the "creator economy"
44 min
246
Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now
55 min
247
The stories soul food tells
45 min
248
The paradox of American freedom
51 min
249
Nonbinary parenthood
55 min
250
John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist
61 min