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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Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara
71 min
577
How Democracies Die
72 min
578
How to oppose Trump without becoming more like him
69 min
579
You will love this conversation with Jaron Lani...
95 min
580
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had on Tr...
73 min
581
Pod Save America’s Jon Favreau on Trump’s first...
58 min
582
The inside story of Doug Jones’s win in Alabama
59 min
583
What life is like in North Korea
46 min
584
"An orgy of serious policy discussion" with Pau...
93 min
585
The case for impeachment
66 min
586
What Buddhism got right about the human brain
75 min
587
Rebecca Traister on #MeToo, female rage, and An...
86 min
588
Ai-jen Poo: the future of work isn’t robots. It...
61 min
589
Evan Osnos on the North Korea crisis, Trump’s m...
82 min
590
Why politics needs more conflict, not less
72 min
591
Why the Weinstein scandal gives Tig Notaro hope...
41 min
592
What happens when human beings take control of ...
61 min
593
Ta-Nehisi Coates is not here to comfort you
67 min
594
How the Republican Party created Donald Trump
105 min
595
Reihan Salam wants to remake the Republican Par...
76 min
596
David Remnick on journalism in the Trump era an...
82 min
597
What Hillary Clinton really thinks
54 min
598
Dan Rather thought he'd seen it all. But then c...
65 min
599
From 4Chan to Charlottesville: where the alt-ri...
83 min
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Why prosecutors, not cops, are the keys to crim...
73 min