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