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
201
Workers of the world, stay home!
57 min
202
How progressives get back in the game
57 min
203
The highs and lows of the "creator economy"
44 min
204
Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now
55 min
205
The stories soul food tells
45 min
206
The paradox of American freedom
51 min
207
Nonbinary parenthood
55 min
208
John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist
61 min
209
The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care
57 min
210
How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation p...
52 min
211
Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom
How a former sharecropper disrupted American politics
54 min
212
What the internet took from us
53 min
213
Trapped inside with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi
43 min
214
Bryan Stevenson on the legacy of enslavement
57 min
215
What's your status?
51 min
216
Is there a hack for enlightenment?
59 min
217
Fighting a world on fire with fire
56 min
218
Revolutionary Love
51 min
219
How to make meaning out of suffering
52 min
220
Ken Burns's latest on The Greatest
62 min
221
The road from 9/11 to Donald Trump
62 min
222
Rep. Pramila Jayapal on immigrants and America ...
45 min
223
Why America's obsession with rights is wrong
52 min
224
The news is by — and for — rich, white liberals
57 min
225
Clint Smith III on confronting the legacy of sl...
55 min