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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How technology brings out the worst in us, with...
69 min
602
Steven Pinker: enlightenment values made this t...
65 min
603
Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara
71 min
604
How Democracies Die
72 min
605
How to oppose Trump without becoming more like him
69 min
606
You will love this conversation with Jaron Lani...
95 min
607
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had on Tr...
73 min
608
Pod Save America’s Jon Favreau on Trump’s first...
58 min
609
The inside story of Doug Jones’s win in Alabama
59 min
610
What life is like in North Korea
46 min
611
"An orgy of serious policy discussion" with Pau...
93 min
612
The case for impeachment
66 min
613
What Buddhism got right about the human brain
75 min
614
Rebecca Traister on #MeToo, female rage, and An...
86 min
615
Ai-jen Poo: the future of work isn’t robots. It...
61 min
616
Evan Osnos on the North Korea crisis, Trump’s m...
82 min
617
Why politics needs more conflict, not less
72 min
618
Why the Weinstein scandal gives Tig Notaro hope...
41 min
619
What happens when human beings take control of ...
61 min
620
Ta-Nehisi Coates is not here to comfort you
67 min
621
How the Republican Party created Donald Trump
105 min
622
Reihan Salam wants to remake the Republican Par...
76 min
623
David Remnick on journalism in the Trump era an...
82 min
624
What Hillary Clinton really thinks
54 min
625
Dan Rather thought he'd seen it all. But then c...
65 min