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
576
The Supreme Court vs. Democracy
64 min
577
Eric Garcetti on the lessons of Los Angeles
60 min
578
What Ellen Pao saw coming
51 min
579
The Green Pill
57 min
580
How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’...
71 min
581
Political power and the racial wealth gap
77 min
582
Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American comp...
84 min
583
A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
79 min
584
Optimism about America
78 min
585
The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter refl...
55 min
586
The age of "mega-identity" politics
74 min
587
Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
110 min
588
Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained...
57 min
589
Is modern society making us depressed?
87 min
590
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min
591
The Sam Harris Debate
128 min
592
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and...
46 min
593
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Tru...
80 min
594
Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate chang...
50 min
595
A better conversation on guns
49 min
596
This isn’t Joe Kennedy’s grandfather’s Democrat...
61 min
597
Amy Chua on how tribalism is tearing America apart
59 min
598
How technology brings out the worst in us, with...
69 min
599
Steven Pinker: enlightenment values made this t...
65 min
600
Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara
71 min