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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What Nate Silver's learned about forecasting el...
75 min
552
Jay Rosen is pessimistic about the media. So am I.
78 min
553
Why Bill Gates is worried
56 min
554
Reihan Salam makes the case against open borders
86 min
555
Jose Antonio Vargas on living undocumented in T...
84 min
556
Rebecca Traister: Women's rage is transforming ...
67 min
557
Patrick Deneen says liberalism has failed. Is h...
56 min
558
Francis Fukuyama’s case against identity politics
88 min
559
Carol Anderson on the myth of American democracy
52 min
560
Martha C. Nussbaum on how fear deforms our poli...
54 min
561
David French on “The Great White Culture War"
89 min
562
Your attention is being hijacked. Chris Bailey ...
62 min
563
Anand Giridharadas on the elite charade of chan...
90 min
564
I build a world with fantasy master N.K. Jemisin
79 min
565
Reup: Zephyr Teachout vs. Corruption
89 min
566
Is our economy totally screwed? Andrew Yang and...
68 min
567
Chef Marcus Samuelsson on immigration, creativi...
69 min
568
Why online politics gets so extreme so fast
62 min
569
Taking Trump’s corruption seriously
62 min
570
The surprising story of how American politics p...
62 min
571
The most important idea for understanding Ameri...
73 min
572
What economists and politicians get wrong about...
54 min
573
How to disagree better
94 min
574
Jaron Lanier’s case for deleting social media r...
77 min
575
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had about...
65 min