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