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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Sean Decatur doesn’t see a free speech crisis o...
75 min
527
Cal Newport has an answer for digital burnout
66 min
528
Eric Holder’s plan to save democracy
60 min
529
Anil Dash on the biases of tech
77 min
530
Jill Lepore on America’s two revolutions
90 min
531
Best of: N.K. Jemisin
80 min
532
Best-of: Bryan Stevenson
89 min
533
Kara Swisher interviews me on the Future of Jou...
90 min
534
TED’s Chris Anderson on the lessons of listening
66 min
535
Rep. Katie Porter on how capitalism is failing
76 min
536
How Hasan Minhaj is reinventing political comedy
98 min
537
Adam Serwer on white political correctness
47 min
538
Will Storr on why you are not yourself
82 min
539
How to be a better carnivore
32 min
540
Peter Beinart on anti-Semitism in America and i...
83 min
541
Where Jonathan Haidt thinks the American mind w...
108 min
542
The Impact: Deportation without representation
30 min
543
Molly Ball on Nancy Pelosi’s future and Paul Ry...
59 min
544
Whitney Phillips explains how Trump controls th...
106 min
545
Ask Ezra Anything
92 min
546
Presidents in crisis with Slow Burn’s Leon Neyfakh
80 min
547
Sandy Darity has a plan to close the wealth gap
47 min
548
How identity politics elected Donald Trump
94 min
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Rep. Mark Sanford on losing the Republican Part...
60 min
550
Doris Kearns Goodwin (live!) on how great presi...
79 min