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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The politics of 'Yellowstone'
25 min
152
How society sexualizes us
51 min
153
The Parent Trap
How society is failing parents and children
55 min
154
40 Acres: Reaching reconciliation
28 min
155
40 Acres: The old Jim Crow
43 min
156
40 Acres: $14 trillion and no mules
44 min
157
40 Acres: The original promise
49 min
158
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
159
Even Better: Don't call it a budget
45 min
160
The quest for authenticity
Better living through the existentialism of Simone de Beauvoir
46 min
161
Even Better: Setting your boundaries
43 min
162
Your gut instinct is usually wrong
A data scientist on how to make decisions
49 min
163
Even Better: Workplace equality 2.0
51 min
164
Why we're still postmodern (whatever that means)
53 min
165
Even Better: Activism when you don't know where...
47 min
166
The Supreme Court's power grab
60 min
167
How middlemen took over the economy
60 min
168
The necessity — and danger — of free speech
Free speech is essential for democracy. It may also be democracy's downfall.
50 min
169
Hacking coral sex to save the reefs
49 min
170
The price of keeping secrets
47 min
171
Does China control Hollywood?
58 min
172
Steve Bannon is still at war
45 min
173
The Fortress of Solitude saw it all coming
Constance Grady talks with author Jonathan Lethem about his prescient 2003 novel
34 min
174
The Philosophers: Stoic revival
59 min
175
Station Eleven's creator on the end of the world
Showrunner Patrick Somerville on why hope is necessary for survival
47 min