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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Taking Trump’s corruption seriously
62 min
552
The surprising story of how American politics p...
62 min
553
The most important idea for understanding Ameri...
73 min
554
What economists and politicians get wrong about...
54 min
555
How to disagree better
94 min
556
Jaron Lanier’s case for deleting social media r...
77 min
557
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had about...
65 min
558
The Supreme Court vs. Democracy
64 min
559
Eric Garcetti on the lessons of Los Angeles
60 min
560
What Ellen Pao saw coming
51 min
561
The Green Pill
57 min
562
How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’...
71 min
563
Political power and the racial wealth gap
77 min
564
Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American comp...
84 min
565
A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
79 min
566
Optimism about America
78 min
567
The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter refl...
55 min
568
The age of "mega-identity" politics
74 min
569
Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
110 min
570
Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained...
57 min
571
Is modern society making us depressed?
87 min
572
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min
573
The Sam Harris Debate
128 min
574
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and...
46 min
575
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Tru...
80 min