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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What’s scary isn’t Trump’s illiberalism but Ame...
62 min
627
Julia Galef on how to argue better and change y...
88 min
628
Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia, the first psychologist t...
65 min
629
Eddie Izzard on World War I, cake or death, and...
65 min
630
Avik Roy and Ezra debate the Senate GOP's healt...
83 min
631
danah boyd on why fake news is so easy to believe
84 min
632
Al Franken on learning to be a politician
52 min
633
Zephyr Teachout on suing Trump, fighting corrup...
89 min
634
Masha Gessen offers a plausible Trump-Russia th...
63 min
635
Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism
63 min
636
Yascha Mounk: Is Trump’s incompetence saving us...
91 min
637
Bryan Stevenson on why the opposite of poverty ...
89 min
638
Death, Sex, and Money’s Anna Sale on bringing e...
50 min
639
Cory Booker returns, live, to talk trust, Trump...
67 min
640
VC Bill Gurley on transforming health care
69 min
641
Elizabeth Warren on what Barack Obama got wrong
43 min
642
Cal Newport on doing Deep Work and escaping soc...
80 min
643
G. Willow Wilson on religion, comics, and moder...
72 min
644
Chris Hayes on the crisis of elites and the pol...
99 min
645
Tyler Cowen explains it all
91 min
646
Molly Ball on whether facts matter in politics
73 min
647
Denis McDonough on how to run the White House
78 min
648
Cecile Richards on Planned Parenthood, labor or...
72 min
649
Tim Ferriss on suffering, psychedelics, and spi...
108 min
650
Yuval Harari, author of “Sapiens,” on AI, relig...
67 min