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
251
The highs and lows of the "creator economy"
44 min
252
Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now
55 min
253
The stories soul food tells
45 min
254
The paradox of American freedom
51 min
255
Nonbinary parenthood
55 min
256
John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist
61 min
257
The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care
57 min
258
How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation p...
52 min
259
Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom
How a former sharecropper disrupted American politics
54 min
260
What the internet took from us
53 min
261
Trapped inside with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi
43 min
262
Bryan Stevenson on the legacy of enslavement
57 min
263
What's your status?
51 min
264
Is there a hack for enlightenment?
59 min
265
Fighting a world on fire with fire
56 min
266
Revolutionary Love
51 min
267
How to make meaning out of suffering
52 min
268
Ken Burns's latest on The Greatest
62 min
269
The road from 9/11 to Donald Trump
62 min
270
Rep. Pramila Jayapal on immigrants and America ...
45 min
271
Why America's obsession with rights is wrong
52 min
272
The news is by — and for — rich, white liberals
57 min
273
Clint Smith III on confronting the legacy of sl...
55 min
274
Was the cruelty the point?
55 min
275
How seashells shaped the world — and predict ou...
52 min