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.
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How do we fix the harm we cause?
45 min
127
A new philosophy of love
55 min
128
The politics of 'Yellowstone'
25 min
129
How society sexualizes us
51 min
130
The Parent Trap
How society is failing parents and children
55 min
131
40 Acres: Reaching reconciliation
28 min
132
40 Acres: The old Jim Crow
43 min
133
40 Acres: $14 trillion and no mules
44 min
134
40 Acres: The original promise
49 min
135
What Clarence Thomas really thinks
And why he's the most misunderstood Supreme Court Justice, according to the author of The Enigma of Clarence Thomas
59 min
136
Even Better: Don't call it a budget
45 min
137
The quest for authenticity
Better living through the existentialism of Simone de Beauvoir
46 min
138
Even Better: Setting your boundaries
43 min
139
Your gut instinct is usually wrong
A data scientist on how to make decisions
49 min
140
Even Better: Workplace equality 2.0
51 min
141
Why we're still postmodern (whatever that means)
53 min
142
Even Better: Activism when you don't know where...
47 min
143
The Supreme Court's power grab
60 min
144
How middlemen took over the economy
60 min
145
The necessity — and danger — of free speech
Free speech is essential for democracy. It may also be democracy's downfall.
50 min
146
Hacking coral sex to save the reefs
49 min
147
The price of keeping secrets
47 min
148
Does China control Hollywood?
58 min
149
Steve Bannon is still at war
45 min
150
The Fortress of Solitude saw it all coming
Constance Grady talks with author Jonathan Lethem about his prescient 2003 novel
34 min