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
Introducing: Now & Then
2021-07-01 • 58min
The science of dating
2021-06-24 • 54min
Honoring Juneteenth with Ibram X. Kendi
2021-06-17 • 53min
Digital dictatorship
2021-06-10 • 59min
The man who proposed reparations in the 1860s
2021-06-03 • 1h 7min
What pandemic recovery should look like
2021-05-27 • 56min
The gift of getting old
2021-05-20 • 58min
Freedom, and what it means to have a body
2021-05-13 • 56min
Why are we so worried about Satan?
2021-05-06 • 1h 4min
How to be wrong less often
2021-04-29 • 54min
The complicated history of wildlife conservation
2021-04-22 • 1h 7min
How to replace everything in the industrialized world
2021-04-15 • 1h 3min
Patricia Lockwood's big, beautiful internet brain
2021-04-08 • 57min
Who is the real George Soros?
2021-04-01 • 58min
Introducing Unexplainable
2021-03-27 • 28min
The border, explained by someone who knows it intimately
2021-03-25 • 57min
"Wintering," wisdom, and weathering life's darkest times
2021-03-18 • 1h 8min
Reframing America's race problem
2021-03-11 • 54min
Who owns the Western?
2021-03-04 • 51min
A Watchmen writer on race, TV, and tech giants
2021-02-25 • 54min
Uncovering the history of psychedelics in Christianity
2021-02-18 • 53min
Biden's immigration architect on racism, reform, and the Obama legacy
2021-02-11 • 1h 4min
The Capitol Siege and American Revolution
2021-02-04 • 46min
Why fascism in Post-Trump America isn't going away
2021-01-28 • 45min
The Joe Biden experience
2021-01-25 • 1h 7min
What it means to be a "good" rich person
2021-01-21 • 50min
Peter Kafka and Kevin Roose on big tech's power and responsibility
2021-01-18 • 30min
Sam Sanders and Olivia Nuzzi on President Trump’s last days
2021-01-14 • 46min
Best of: We don’t just feel emotions. We make them.
2021-01-07 • 1h 35min
Best of: Ending the age of animal cruelty, with Bruce Friedrich
2021-01-04 • 1h 21min
Best of: The moral philosophy of The Good Place
2020-12-31 • 1h 44min
Best of: Michael Lewis reads my mind
2020-12-28 • 1h 46min
Best of: Tracy K. Smith changed how I read poetry
2020-12-24 • 1h 30min
What I’ve learned, and what comes next.
2020-12-21 • 41min
Best of: An inspiring conversation about democracy with Danielle Allen
2020-12-17 • 1h 12min
Michael Pollan on the psychedelic society
2020-12-14 • 1h 16min
Best of: Robert Sapolsky on the toxic intersection of poverty and stress
2020-12-10 • 1h 20min
Joe Biden and "the new progressivism"
2020-12-07 • 1h 3min
Best of: Frances Lee on why bipartisanship is irrational
2020-12-03 • 59min
The most important book I've read this year
2020-11-30 • 1h 36min
Best of: Alison Gopnik changed how I think about love
2020-11-26 • 1h 35min
Best of: Vivek Murthy on America’s loneliness epidemic
2020-11-23 • 1h 21min
What Democrats got wrong about Hispanic voters
2020-11-19 • 1h 6min
Antitrust, censorship, misinformation, and the 2020 election
2020-11-16 • 1h 1min
The crisis isn’t Trump. It’s the Republican Party.
2020-11-12 • 1h 6min
The Joe Biden experience
2020-11-07 • 1h 8min
Chris Hayes and I process this wild election
2020-11-05 • 1h 5min
Stacey Abrams on minority rule, voting rights, and the future of democracy
2020-11-02 • 1h 10min
Nate Silver on why 2020 isn't 2016
2020-10-29 • 1h 11min
Sarah Kliff grades Biden and Trump's health care plans
2020-10-26 • 1h 18min