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
602
What Hillary Clinton really thinks
54 min
603
Dan Rather thought he'd seen it all. But then c...
65 min
604
From 4Chan to Charlottesville: where the alt-ri...
83 min
605
Why prosecutors, not cops, are the keys to crim...
73 min
606
Chris Hayes on whether Trump should be removed ...
64 min
607
Sen. Michael Bennet on why this is a dismal, so...
75 min
608
What’s scary isn’t Trump’s illiberalism but Ame...
62 min
609
Julia Galef on how to argue better and change y...
88 min
610
Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia, the first psychologist t...
65 min
611
Eddie Izzard on World War I, cake or death, and...
65 min
612
Avik Roy and Ezra debate the Senate GOP's healt...
83 min
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danah boyd on why fake news is so easy to believe
84 min
614
Al Franken on learning to be a politician
52 min
615
Zephyr Teachout on suing Trump, fighting corrup...
89 min
616
Masha Gessen offers a plausible Trump-Russia th...
63 min
617
Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism
63 min
618
Yascha Mounk: Is Trump’s incompetence saving us...
91 min
619
Bryan Stevenson on why the opposite of poverty ...
89 min
620
Death, Sex, and Money’s Anna Sale on bringing e...
50 min
621
Cory Booker returns, live, to talk trust, Trump...
67 min
622
VC Bill Gurley on transforming health care
69 min
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Elizabeth Warren on what Barack Obama got wrong
43 min
624
Cal Newport on doing Deep Work and escaping soc...
80 min
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G. Willow Wilson on religion, comics, and moder...
72 min