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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Novelist Lauren Groff on the other Matrix
42 min
177
Are we living in a simulation?
Philosopher David Chalmers on the question: what is reality, anyway?
63 min
178
Rep. Jamie Raskin on living through the unthink...
52 min
179
Best of: Why fascism in America isn't going away
44 min
180
Best of: Clint Smith III on confronting the leg...
56 min
181
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
182
Chris Bosh on winning (and losing everything)
53 min
183
The cult of toughness
61 min
184
Is ethical investing a scam?
52 min
185
The good life is painful
49 min
186
The father of environmental justice
45 min
187
Jill Lepore on Elon Musk's imaginary world
57 min
188
E.O. Wilson's plan to save the world
51 min
189
Workers of the world, stay home!
57 min
190
How progressives get back in the game
57 min
191
The highs and lows of the "creator economy"
44 min
192
Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now
55 min
193
The stories soul food tells
45 min
194
The paradox of American freedom
51 min
195
Nonbinary parenthood
55 min
196
John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist
61 min
197
The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care
57 min
198
How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation p...
52 min
199
Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom
How a former sharecropper disrupted American politics
54 min
200
What the internet took from us
53 min