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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Best of: N.K. Jemisin
80 min
477
Best-of: Bryan Stevenson
89 min
478
Kara Swisher interviews me on the Future of Jou...
90 min
479
TED’s Chris Anderson on the lessons of listening
66 min
480
Rep. Katie Porter on how capitalism is failing
76 min
481
How Hasan Minhaj is reinventing political comedy
98 min
482
Adam Serwer on white political correctness
47 min
483
Will Storr on why you are not yourself
82 min
484
How to be a better carnivore
32 min
485
Peter Beinart on anti-Semitism in America and i...
83 min
486
Where Jonathan Haidt thinks the American mind w...
108 min
487
The Impact: Deportation without representation
30 min
488
Molly Ball on Nancy Pelosi’s future and Paul Ry...
59 min
489
Whitney Phillips explains how Trump controls th...
106 min
490
Ask Ezra Anything
92 min
491
Presidents in crisis with Slow Burn’s Leon Neyfakh
80 min
492
Sandy Darity has a plan to close the wealth gap
47 min
493
How identity politics elected Donald Trump
94 min
494
Rep. Mark Sanford on losing the Republican Part...
60 min
495
Doris Kearns Goodwin (live!) on how great presi...
79 min
496
What Nate Silver's learned about forecasting el...
75 min
497
Jay Rosen is pessimistic about the media. So am I.
78 min
498
Why Bill Gates is worried
56 min
499
Reihan Salam makes the case against open borders
86 min
500
Jose Antonio Vargas on living undocumented in T...
84 min