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
176
Imagine a future with no police
59 min
177
Novelist Lauren Groff on the other Matrix
42 min
178
Are we living in a simulation?
Philosopher David Chalmers on the question: what is reality, anyway?
63 min
179
Rep. Jamie Raskin on living through the unthink...
52 min
180
Best of: Why fascism in America isn't going away
44 min
181
Best of: Clint Smith III on confronting the leg...
56 min
182
Best of: We need to talk about UFOs. Seriously.
Professor Alex Wendt tells Sean Illing why he thinks the aliens might already be here
57 min
183
Chris Bosh on winning (and losing everything)
53 min
184
The cult of toughness
61 min
185
Is ethical investing a scam?
52 min
186
The good life is painful
49 min
187
The father of environmental justice
45 min
188
Jill Lepore on Elon Musk's imaginary world
57 min
189
E.O. Wilson's plan to save the world
51 min
190
Workers of the world, stay home!
57 min
191
How progressives get back in the game
57 min
192
The highs and lows of the "creator economy"
44 min
193
Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now
55 min
194
The stories soul food tells
45 min
195
The paradox of American freedom
51 min
196
Nonbinary parenthood
55 min
197
John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist
61 min
198
The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care
57 min
199
How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation p...
52 min
200
Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom
How a former sharecropper disrupted American politics
54 min