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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Sen. Michael Bennet on why this is a dismal, so...
75 min
627
What’s scary isn’t Trump’s illiberalism but Ame...
62 min
628
Julia Galef on how to argue better and change y...
88 min
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Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia, the first psychologist t...
65 min
630
Eddie Izzard on World War I, cake or death, and...
65 min
631
Avik Roy and Ezra debate the Senate GOP's healt...
83 min
632
danah boyd on why fake news is so easy to believe
84 min
633
Al Franken on learning to be a politician
52 min
634
Zephyr Teachout on suing Trump, fighting corrup...
89 min
635
Masha Gessen offers a plausible Trump-Russia th...
63 min
636
Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism
63 min
637
Yascha Mounk: Is Trump’s incompetence saving us...
91 min
638
Bryan Stevenson on why the opposite of poverty ...
89 min
639
Death, Sex, and Money’s Anna Sale on bringing e...
50 min
640
Cory Booker returns, live, to talk trust, Trump...
67 min
641
VC Bill Gurley on transforming health care
69 min
642
Elizabeth Warren on what Barack Obama got wrong
43 min
643
Cal Newport on doing Deep Work and escaping soc...
80 min
644
G. Willow Wilson on religion, comics, and moder...
72 min
645
Chris Hayes on the crisis of elites and the pol...
99 min
646
Tyler Cowen explains it all
91 min
647
Molly Ball on whether facts matter in politics
73 min
648
Denis McDonough on how to run the White House
78 min
649
Cecile Richards on Planned Parenthood, labor or...
72 min
650
Tim Ferriss on suffering, psychedelics, and spi...
108 min