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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The most clarifying conversation I’ve had about...
65 min
552
The Supreme Court vs. Democracy
64 min
553
Eric Garcetti on the lessons of Los Angeles
60 min
554
What Ellen Pao saw coming
51 min
555
The Green Pill
57 min
556
How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’...
71 min
557
Political power and the racial wealth gap
77 min
558
Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American comp...
84 min
559
A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
79 min
560
Optimism about America
78 min
561
The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter refl...
55 min
562
The age of "mega-identity" politics
74 min
563
Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
110 min
564
Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained...
57 min
565
Is modern society making us depressed?
87 min
566
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min
567
The Sam Harris Debate
128 min
568
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and...
46 min
569
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Tru...
80 min
570
Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate chang...
50 min
571
A better conversation on guns
49 min
572
This isn’t Joe Kennedy’s grandfather’s Democrat...
61 min
573
Amy Chua on how tribalism is tearing America apart
59 min
574
How technology brings out the worst in us, with...
69 min
575
Steven Pinker: enlightenment values made this t...
65 min