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
What economists and politicians get wrong about...
54 min
577
How to disagree better
94 min
578
Jaron Lanier’s case for deleting social media r...
77 min
579
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had about...
65 min
580
The Supreme Court vs. Democracy
64 min
581
Eric Garcetti on the lessons of Los Angeles
60 min
582
What Ellen Pao saw coming
51 min
583
The Green Pill
57 min
584
How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’...
71 min
585
Political power and the racial wealth gap
77 min
586
Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American comp...
84 min
587
A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
79 min
588
Optimism about America
78 min
589
The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter refl...
55 min
590
The age of "mega-identity" politics
74 min
591
Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
110 min
592
Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained...
57 min
593
Is modern society making us depressed?
87 min
594
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min
595
The Sam Harris Debate
128 min
596
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and...
46 min
597
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Tru...
80 min
598
Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate chang...
50 min
599
A better conversation on guns
49 min
600
This isn’t Joe Kennedy’s grandfather’s Democrat...
61 min