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 Ellen Pao saw coming
51 min
577
The Green Pill
57 min
578
How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’...
71 min
579
Political power and the racial wealth gap
77 min
580
Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American comp...
84 min
581
A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
79 min
582
Optimism about America
78 min
583
The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter refl...
55 min
584
The age of "mega-identity" politics
74 min
585
Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
110 min
586
Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained...
57 min
587
Is modern society making us depressed?
87 min
588
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min
589
The Sam Harris Debate
128 min
590
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and...
46 min
591
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Tru...
80 min
592
Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate chang...
50 min
593
A better conversation on guns
49 min
594
This isn’t Joe Kennedy’s grandfather’s Democrat...
61 min
595
Amy Chua on how tribalism is tearing America apart
59 min
596
How technology brings out the worst in us, with...
69 min
597
Steven Pinker: enlightenment values made this t...
65 min
598
Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara
71 min
599
How Democracies Die
72 min
600
How to oppose Trump without becoming more like him
69 min