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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Cecile Richards on Planned Parenthood, labor or...
72 min
627
Tim Ferriss on suffering, psychedelics, and spi...
108 min
628
Yuval Harari, author of “Sapiens,” on AI, relig...
67 min
629
Elizabeth Drew covered Watergate. Here's what s...
68 min
630
Avik Roy on why conservatives need to embrace d...
88 min
631
Kara Swisher gives a master class on reporting ...
95 min
632
David Miliband explains the global refugee crisis
46 min
633
Jennifer Lawless on why you — yes, you — should...
61 min
634
JD Vance: the reluctant interpreter of Trumpism
100 min
635
Keith Ellison: The Democratic National Committe...
60 min
636
Elizabeth Kolbert: We have locked in centuries ...
78 min
637
Sarah Kliff and Ezra Interview Obama About Obam...
72 min
638
You Ask, Ezra Answers
93 min
639
Evelyn Farkas explains the crisis in Syria and ...
77 min
640
Tim Wu's interesting, unusual, fascinating life
89 min
641
Ta-Nehisi Coates: "There’s not gonna be a happy...
100 min
642
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison on management, rati...
87 min
643
Award-winning chef José Andrés on cooking, crea...
86 min
644
Heather McGhee returns to talk Trump, race, and...
59 min
645
Ron Brownstein: Clinton didn’t lose because of ...
63 min
646
David Frum on the 2016 election, and the long d...
92 min
647
Deborah Tannen on gendered speech, Hillary Clin...
89 min
648
Joseph Stiglitz on broken markets, bad trade de...
66 min
649
Let's talk about Hillary Clinton's policy ideas...
70 min
650
Francis Fukuyama on whether America's democracy...
67 min