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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From 4Chan to Charlottesville: where the alt-ri...
83 min
627
Why prosecutors, not cops, are the keys to crim...
73 min
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Chris Hayes on whether Trump should be removed ...
64 min
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Sen. Michael Bennet on why this is a dismal, so...
75 min
630
What’s scary isn’t Trump’s illiberalism but Ame...
62 min
631
Julia Galef on how to argue better and change y...
88 min
632
Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia, the first psychologist t...
65 min
633
Eddie Izzard on World War I, cake or death, and...
65 min
634
Avik Roy and Ezra debate the Senate GOP's healt...
83 min
635
danah boyd on why fake news is so easy to believe
84 min
636
Al Franken on learning to be a politician
52 min
637
Zephyr Teachout on suing Trump, fighting corrup...
89 min
638
Masha Gessen offers a plausible Trump-Russia th...
63 min
639
Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism
63 min
640
Yascha Mounk: Is Trump’s incompetence saving us...
91 min
641
Bryan Stevenson on why the opposite of poverty ...
89 min
642
Death, Sex, and Money’s Anna Sale on bringing e...
50 min
643
Cory Booker returns, live, to talk trust, Trump...
67 min
644
VC Bill Gurley on transforming health care
69 min
645
Elizabeth Warren on what Barack Obama got wrong
43 min
646
Cal Newport on doing Deep Work and escaping soc...
80 min
647
G. Willow Wilson on religion, comics, and moder...
72 min
648
Chris Hayes on the crisis of elites and the pol...
99 min
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Tyler Cowen explains it all
91 min
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Molly Ball on whether facts matter in politics
73 min