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