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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The most clarifying conversation I’ve had on Tr...
73 min
577
Pod Save America’s Jon Favreau on Trump’s first...
58 min
578
The inside story of Doug Jones’s win in Alabama
59 min
579
What life is like in North Korea
46 min
580
"An orgy of serious policy discussion" with Pau...
93 min
581
The case for impeachment
66 min
582
What Buddhism got right about the human brain
75 min
583
Rebecca Traister on #MeToo, female rage, and An...
86 min
584
Ai-jen Poo: the future of work isn’t robots. It...
61 min
585
Evan Osnos on the North Korea crisis, Trump’s m...
82 min
586
Why politics needs more conflict, not less
72 min
587
Why the Weinstein scandal gives Tig Notaro hope...
41 min
588
What happens when human beings take control of ...
61 min
589
Ta-Nehisi Coates is not here to comfort you
67 min
590
How the Republican Party created Donald Trump
105 min
591
Reihan Salam wants to remake the Republican Par...
76 min
592
David Remnick on journalism in the Trump era an...
82 min
593
What Hillary Clinton really thinks
54 min
594
Dan Rather thought he'd seen it all. But then c...
65 min
595
From 4Chan to Charlottesville: where the alt-ri...
83 min
596
Why prosecutors, not cops, are the keys to crim...
73 min
597
Chris Hayes on whether Trump should be removed ...
64 min
598
Sen. Michael Bennet on why this is a dismal, so...
75 min
599
What’s scary isn’t Trump’s illiberalism but Ame...
62 min
600
Julia Galef on how to argue better and change y...
88 min