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 Hillary Clinton really thinks
54 min
627
Dan Rather thought he'd seen it all. But then c...
65 min
628
From 4Chan to Charlottesville: where the alt-ri...
83 min
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Why prosecutors, not cops, are the keys to crim...
73 min
630
Chris Hayes on whether Trump should be removed ...
64 min
631
Sen. Michael Bennet on why this is a dismal, so...
75 min
632
What’s scary isn’t Trump’s illiberalism but Ame...
62 min
633
Julia Galef on how to argue better and change y...
88 min
634
Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia, the first psychologist t...
65 min
635
Eddie Izzard on World War I, cake or death, and...
65 min
636
Avik Roy and Ezra debate the Senate GOP's healt...
83 min
637
danah boyd on why fake news is so easy to believe
84 min
638
Al Franken on learning to be a politician
52 min
639
Zephyr Teachout on suing Trump, fighting corrup...
89 min
640
Masha Gessen offers a plausible Trump-Russia th...
63 min
641
Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism
63 min
642
Yascha Mounk: Is Trump’s incompetence saving us...
91 min
643
Bryan Stevenson on why the opposite of poverty ...
89 min
644
Death, Sex, and Money’s Anna Sale on bringing e...
50 min
645
Cory Booker returns, live, to talk trust, Trump...
67 min
646
VC Bill Gurley on transforming health care
69 min
647
Elizabeth Warren on what Barack Obama got wrong
43 min
648
Cal Newport on doing Deep Work and escaping soc...
80 min
649
G. Willow Wilson on religion, comics, and moder...
72 min
650
Chris Hayes on the crisis of elites and the pol...
99 min