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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David Remnick on journalism in the Trump era an...
82 min
577
What Hillary Clinton really thinks
54 min
578
Dan Rather thought he'd seen it all. But then c...
65 min
579
From 4Chan to Charlottesville: where the alt-ri...
83 min
580
Why prosecutors, not cops, are the keys to crim...
73 min
581
Chris Hayes on whether Trump should be removed ...
64 min
582
Sen. Michael Bennet on why this is a dismal, so...
75 min
583
What’s scary isn’t Trump’s illiberalism but Ame...
62 min
584
Julia Galef on how to argue better and change y...
88 min
585
Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia, the first psychologist t...
65 min
586
Eddie Izzard on World War I, cake or death, and...
65 min
587
Avik Roy and Ezra debate the Senate GOP's healt...
83 min
588
danah boyd on why fake news is so easy to believe
84 min
589
Al Franken on learning to be a politician
52 min
590
Zephyr Teachout on suing Trump, fighting corrup...
89 min
591
Masha Gessen offers a plausible Trump-Russia th...
63 min
592
Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism
63 min
593
Yascha Mounk: Is Trump’s incompetence saving us...
91 min
594
Bryan Stevenson on why the opposite of poverty ...
89 min
595
Death, Sex, and Money’s Anna Sale on bringing e...
50 min
596
Cory Booker returns, live, to talk trust, Trump...
67 min
597
VC Bill Gurley on transforming health care
69 min
598
Elizabeth Warren on what Barack Obama got wrong
43 min
599
Cal Newport on doing Deep Work and escaping soc...
80 min
600
G. Willow Wilson on religion, comics, and moder...
72 min