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