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