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