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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677 episoder
Rep. Jamie Raskin on living through the unthinkable, twice
2022-01-06 • 57min
Best of: Why fascism in America isn't going away
2022-01-03 • 49min
Best of: Clint Smith III on confronting the legacy of slavery
2021-12-30 • 1h 1min
Best of: We need to talk about UFOs. Seriously.
2021-12-27 • 1h 3min
Chris Bosh on winning (and losing everything)
2021-12-23 • 58min
The cult of toughness
2021-12-20 • 1h 6min
Is ethical investing a scam?
2021-12-16 • 57min
The good life is painful
2021-12-13 • 55min
The father of environmental justice
2021-12-09 • 50min
Jill Lepore on Elon Musk's imaginary world
2021-12-06 • 1h 3min
E.O. Wilson's plan to save the world
2021-12-02 • 56min
Workers of the world, stay home!
2021-11-29 • 1h 2min
How progressives get back in the game
2021-11-22 • 1h 3min
The highs and lows of the "creator economy"
2021-11-18 • 49min
Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now
2021-11-15 • 1h 30s
The stories soul food tells
2021-11-11 • 51min
The paradox of American freedom
2021-11-08 • 57min
Nonbinary parenthood
2021-11-04 • 1h 51s
John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist
2021-11-01 • 1h 6min
The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care
2021-10-28 • 1h 3min
How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation panic
2021-10-25 • 58min
Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom
2021-10-21 • 59min
What the internet took from us
2021-10-18 • 58min
Trapped inside with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi
2021-10-14 • 49min
Bryan Stevenson on the legacy of enslavement
2021-10-07 • 1h 3min
What's your status?
2021-10-04 • 57min
Is there a hack for enlightenment?
2021-09-30 • 1h 5min
Fighting a world on fire with fire
2021-09-27 • 1h 2min
Revolutionary Love
2021-09-23 • 57min
How to make meaning out of suffering
2021-09-20 • 56min
Ken Burns's latest on The Greatest
2021-09-16 • 1h 7min
The road from 9/11 to Donald Trump
2021-09-13 • 1h 8min
Rep. Pramila Jayapal on immigrants and America after 9/11
2021-09-09 • 51min
Why America's obsession with rights is wrong
2021-09-02 • 58min
The news is by — and for — rich, white liberals
2021-08-30 • 1h 2min
Clint Smith III on confronting the legacy of slavery
2021-08-26 • 1h 1min
Was the cruelty the point?
2021-08-23 • 1h 1min
How seashells shaped the world — and predict our future
2021-08-19 • 58min
Bill Maher on free speech, comedy, and his haters
2021-08-16 • 50min
Robert Reich wants you to take on the system
2021-08-12 • 53min
Marty Baron on the future of news
2021-08-09 • 54min
The death of cool
2021-08-05 • 48min
We need to talk about UFOs. Seriously.
2021-08-02 • 1h 2min
Philadelphia's progressive prosecutor
2021-07-29 • 55min
Fareed Zakaria on the fate of democracy
2021-07-26 • 1h 11min
Jane Goodall on the power of hope
2021-07-22 • 1h 2min
Why we love drugs
2021-07-19 • 1h 3min
The rugged majesty of revision
2021-07-15 • 1h 26s
How to forgive
2021-07-12 • 59min
What makes a great conversation?
2021-07-08 • 22min