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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Ending the age of animal cruelty, with Bruce Fr...
75 min
527
Robert Sapolsky on the toxic intersection of po...
75 min
528
Frances Lee on why bipartisanship is irrational
57 min
529
Sean Decatur doesn’t see a free speech crisis o...
75 min
530
Cal Newport has an answer for digital burnout
66 min
531
Eric Holder’s plan to save democracy
60 min
532
Anil Dash on the biases of tech
77 min
533
Jill Lepore on America’s two revolutions
90 min
534
Best of: N.K. Jemisin
80 min
535
Best-of: Bryan Stevenson
89 min
536
Kara Swisher interviews me on the Future of Jou...
90 min
537
TED’s Chris Anderson on the lessons of listening
66 min
538
Rep. Katie Porter on how capitalism is failing
76 min
539
How Hasan Minhaj is reinventing political comedy
98 min
540
Adam Serwer on white political correctness
47 min
541
Will Storr on why you are not yourself
82 min
542
How to be a better carnivore
32 min
543
Peter Beinart on anti-Semitism in America and i...
83 min
544
Where Jonathan Haidt thinks the American mind w...
108 min
545
The Impact: Deportation without representation
30 min
546
Molly Ball on Nancy Pelosi’s future and Paul Ry...
59 min
547
Whitney Phillips explains how Trump controls th...
106 min
548
Ask Ezra Anything
92 min
549
Presidents in crisis with Slow Burn’s Leon Neyfakh
80 min
550
Sandy Darity has a plan to close the wealth gap
47 min