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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Eddie Izzard on World War I, cake or death, and...
65 min
577
Avik Roy and Ezra debate the Senate GOP's healt...
83 min
578
danah boyd on why fake news is so easy to believe
84 min
579
Al Franken on learning to be a politician
52 min
580
Zephyr Teachout on suing Trump, fighting corrup...
89 min
581
Masha Gessen offers a plausible Trump-Russia th...
63 min
582
Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism
63 min
583
Yascha Mounk: Is Trump’s incompetence saving us...
91 min
584
Bryan Stevenson on why the opposite of poverty ...
89 min
585
Death, Sex, and Money’s Anna Sale on bringing e...
50 min
586
Cory Booker returns, live, to talk trust, Trump...
67 min
587
VC Bill Gurley on transforming health care
69 min
588
Elizabeth Warren on what Barack Obama got wrong
43 min
589
Cal Newport on doing Deep Work and escaping soc...
80 min
590
G. Willow Wilson on religion, comics, and moder...
72 min
591
Chris Hayes on the crisis of elites and the pol...
99 min
592
Tyler Cowen explains it all
91 min
593
Molly Ball on whether facts matter in politics
73 min
594
Denis McDonough on how to run the White House
78 min
595
Cecile Richards on Planned Parenthood, labor or...
72 min
596
Tim Ferriss on suffering, psychedelics, and spi...
108 min
597
Yuval Harari, author of “Sapiens,” on AI, relig...
67 min
598
Elizabeth Drew covered Watergate. Here's what s...
68 min
599
Avik Roy on why conservatives need to embrace d...
88 min
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Kara Swisher gives a master class on reporting ...
95 min