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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Julia Galef on how to argue better and change y...
88 min
602
Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia, the first psychologist t...
65 min
603
Eddie Izzard on World War I, cake or death, and...
65 min
604
Avik Roy and Ezra debate the Senate GOP's healt...
83 min
605
danah boyd on why fake news is so easy to believe
84 min
606
Al Franken on learning to be a politician
52 min
607
Zephyr Teachout on suing Trump, fighting corrup...
89 min
608
Masha Gessen offers a plausible Trump-Russia th...
63 min
609
Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism
63 min
610
Yascha Mounk: Is Trump’s incompetence saving us...
91 min
611
Bryan Stevenson on why the opposite of poverty ...
89 min
612
Death, Sex, and Money’s Anna Sale on bringing e...
50 min
613
Cory Booker returns, live, to talk trust, Trump...
67 min
614
VC Bill Gurley on transforming health care
69 min
615
Elizabeth Warren on what Barack Obama got wrong
43 min
616
Cal Newport on doing Deep Work and escaping soc...
80 min
617
G. Willow Wilson on religion, comics, and moder...
72 min
618
Chris Hayes on the crisis of elites and the pol...
99 min
619
Tyler Cowen explains it all
91 min
620
Molly Ball on whether facts matter in politics
73 min
621
Denis McDonough on how to run the White House
78 min
622
Cecile Richards on Planned Parenthood, labor or...
72 min
623
Tim Ferriss on suffering, psychedelics, and spi...
108 min
624
Yuval Harari, author of “Sapiens,” on AI, relig...
67 min
625
Elizabeth Drew covered Watergate. Here's what s...
68 min