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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Why prosecutors, not cops, are the keys to crim...
73 min
602
Chris Hayes on whether Trump should be removed ...
64 min
603
Sen. Michael Bennet on why this is a dismal, so...
75 min
604
What’s scary isn’t Trump’s illiberalism but Ame...
62 min
605
Julia Galef on how to argue better and change y...
88 min
606
Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia, the first psychologist t...
65 min
607
Eddie Izzard on World War I, cake or death, and...
65 min
608
Avik Roy and Ezra debate the Senate GOP's healt...
83 min
609
danah boyd on why fake news is so easy to believe
84 min
610
Al Franken on learning to be a politician
52 min
611
Zephyr Teachout on suing Trump, fighting corrup...
89 min
612
Masha Gessen offers a plausible Trump-Russia th...
63 min
613
Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism
63 min
614
Yascha Mounk: Is Trump’s incompetence saving us...
91 min
615
Bryan Stevenson on why the opposite of poverty ...
89 min
616
Death, Sex, and Money’s Anna Sale on bringing e...
50 min
617
Cory Booker returns, live, to talk trust, Trump...
67 min
618
VC Bill Gurley on transforming health care
69 min
619
Elizabeth Warren on what Barack Obama got wrong
43 min
620
Cal Newport on doing Deep Work and escaping soc...
80 min
621
G. Willow Wilson on religion, comics, and moder...
72 min
622
Chris Hayes on the crisis of elites and the pol...
99 min
623
Tyler Cowen explains it all
91 min
624
Molly Ball on whether facts matter in politics
73 min
625
Denis McDonough on how to run the White House
78 min