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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Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia, the first psychologist t...
65 min
602
Eddie Izzard on World War I, cake or death, and...
65 min
603
Avik Roy and Ezra debate the Senate GOP's healt...
83 min
604
danah boyd on why fake news is so easy to believe
84 min
605
Al Franken on learning to be a politician
52 min
606
Zephyr Teachout on suing Trump, fighting corrup...
89 min
607
Masha Gessen offers a plausible Trump-Russia th...
63 min
608
Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism
63 min
609
Yascha Mounk: Is Trump’s incompetence saving us...
91 min
610
Bryan Stevenson on why the opposite of poverty ...
89 min
611
Death, Sex, and Money’s Anna Sale on bringing e...
50 min
612
Cory Booker returns, live, to talk trust, Trump...
67 min
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VC Bill Gurley on transforming health care
69 min
614
Elizabeth Warren on what Barack Obama got wrong
43 min
615
Cal Newport on doing Deep Work and escaping soc...
80 min
616
G. Willow Wilson on religion, comics, and moder...
72 min
617
Chris Hayes on the crisis of elites and the pol...
99 min
618
Tyler Cowen explains it all
91 min
619
Molly Ball on whether facts matter in politics
73 min
620
Denis McDonough on how to run the White House
78 min
621
Cecile Richards on Planned Parenthood, labor or...
72 min
622
Tim Ferriss on suffering, psychedelics, and spi...
108 min
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Yuval Harari, author of “Sapiens,” on AI, relig...
67 min
624
Elizabeth Drew covered Watergate. Here's what s...
68 min
625
Avik Roy on why conservatives need to embrace d...
88 min