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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678 episoder
A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
2018-05-14 • 1h 25min
Optimism about America
2018-05-07 • 1h 23min
The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter reflects on her coverage
2018-05-03 • 1h 38s
The age of "mega-identity" politics
2018-04-30 • 1h 19min
Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
2018-04-23 • 1h 55min
Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained by a UN diplomat who saw it start
2018-04-20 • 57min
Is modern society making us depressed?
2018-04-16 • 1h 33min
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
2018-04-12 • 1h 36min
The Sam Harris Debate
2018-04-09 • 2h 14min
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and what comes next
2018-04-02 • 51min
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Trump"?
2018-03-26 • 1h 25min
Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate change, ending malaria, and the problems money can’t solve
2018-03-19 • 55min
A better conversation on guns
2018-03-12 • 54min
This isn’t Joe Kennedy’s grandfather’s Democratic Party, and he knows it
2018-03-05 • 1h 7min
Amy Chua on how tribalism is tearing America apart
2018-02-26 • 1h 4min
How technology brings out the worst in us, with Tristan Harris
2018-02-19 • 1h 14min
Steven Pinker: enlightenment values made this the best moment in human history
2018-02-12 • 1h 11min
Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara
2018-02-05 • 1h 16min
How Democracies Die
2018-01-29 • 1h 17min
How to oppose Trump without becoming more like him
2018-01-22 • 1h 15min
You will love this conversation with Jaron Lanier, but I can’t describe it
2018-01-15 • 1h 41min
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had on Trump and Russia
2018-01-08 • 1h 18min
Pod Save America’s Jon Favreau on Trump’s first year, the GOP’s “rot,” and the left’s failures
2018-01-02 • 1h 4min
The inside story of Doug Jones’s win in Alabama
2017-12-25 • 1h 5min
What life is like in North Korea
2017-12-18 • 52min
"An orgy of serious policy discussion" with Paul Krugman
2017-12-11 • 1h 38min
The case for impeachment
2017-12-04 • 1h 12min
What Buddhism got right about the human brain
2017-11-27 • 1h 20min
Rebecca Traister on #MeToo, female rage, and Anita Hill’s legacy
2017-11-20 • 1h 31min
Ai-jen Poo: the future of work isn’t robots. It’s caring humans.
2017-11-13 • 1h 7min
Evan Osnos on the North Korea crisis, Trump’s mental health, and China's rise
2017-11-06 • 1h 27min
Why politics needs more conflict, not less
2017-10-30 • 1h 18min
Why the Weinstein scandal gives Tig Notaro hope about Hollywood
2017-10-23 • 46min
What happens when human beings take control of their own evolution?
2017-10-16 • 1h 7min
Ta-Nehisi Coates is not here to comfort you
2017-10-09 • 1h 13min
How the Republican Party created Donald Trump
2017-10-02 • 1h 51min
Reihan Salam wants to remake the Republican Party -- again
2017-09-25 • 1h 21min
David Remnick on journalism in the Trump era and why he hires obsessives
2017-09-19 • 1h 28min
What Hillary Clinton really thinks
2017-09-12 • 1h 23s
Dan Rather thought he'd seen it all. But then came President Trump.
2017-09-05 • 1h 11min
From 4Chan to Charlottesville: where the alt-right came from, and where it's going
2017-08-29 • 1h 29min
Why prosecutors, not cops, are the keys to criminal justice reform
2017-08-22 • 1h 19min
Chris Hayes on whether Trump should be removed from office
2017-08-15 • 1h 9min
Sen. Michael Bennet on why this is a dismal, sociopathic era in Congress
2017-08-08 • 1h 21min
What’s scary isn’t Trump’s illiberalism but America's acceptance of it
2017-08-01 • 1h 7min
Julia Galef on how to argue better and change your mind more
2017-07-25 • 1h 34min
Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia, the first psychologist to run a jail
2017-07-18 • 1h 11min
Eddie Izzard on World War I, cake or death, and marathoning
2017-07-11 • 1h 11min
Avik Roy and Ezra debate the Senate GOP's health bill
2017-07-03 • 1h 29min
danah boyd on why fake news is so easy to believe
2017-06-27 • 1h 30min