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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Ask Ezra Anything
92 min
552
Presidents in crisis with Slow Burn’s Leon Neyfakh
80 min
553
Sandy Darity has a plan to close the wealth gap
47 min
554
How identity politics elected Donald Trump
94 min
555
Rep. Mark Sanford on losing the Republican Part...
60 min
556
Doris Kearns Goodwin (live!) on how great presi...
79 min
557
What Nate Silver's learned about forecasting el...
75 min
558
Jay Rosen is pessimistic about the media. So am I.
78 min
559
Why Bill Gates is worried
56 min
560
Reihan Salam makes the case against open borders
86 min
561
Jose Antonio Vargas on living undocumented in T...
84 min
562
Rebecca Traister: Women's rage is transforming ...
67 min
563
Patrick Deneen says liberalism has failed. Is h...
56 min
564
Francis Fukuyama’s case against identity politics
88 min
565
Carol Anderson on the myth of American democracy
52 min
566
Martha C. Nussbaum on how fear deforms our poli...
54 min
567
David French on “The Great White Culture War"
89 min
568
Your attention is being hijacked. Chris Bailey ...
62 min
569
Anand Giridharadas on the elite charade of chan...
90 min
570
I build a world with fantasy master N.K. Jemisin
79 min
571
Reup: Zephyr Teachout vs. Corruption
89 min
572
Is our economy totally screwed? Andrew Yang and...
68 min
573
Chef Marcus Samuelsson on immigration, creativi...
69 min
574
Why online politics gets so extreme so fast
62 min
575
Taking Trump’s corruption seriously
62 min