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
Trumpism never existed. It was always just Trump.
2020-10-22 • 1h 45s
What should Democrats do about the Supreme Court?
2020-10-19 • 1h 26min
Marilynne Robinson on writing, metaphysics, and the Donald Trump dilemma
2020-10-15 • 1h 15min
The case for Trump’s foreign policy
2020-10-12 • 1h 14min
Fareed Zakaria on how Biden and Trump see the world
2020-10-08 • 1h 21min
How a climate bill becomes a reality
2020-10-05 • 1h 27min
The meat we eat affects us all
2020-10-02 • 35min
A dark, dangerous debate
2020-09-30 • 1h 14min
A radical — or obvious? — plan to save American democracy
2020-09-28 • 1h 11min
RBG, minority rule, and our looming legitimacy crisis
2020-09-24 • 1h 11min
David French and I debate polarization, secession, and the filibuster
2020-09-21 • 1h 33min
The Matt Yglesias Show
2020-09-17 • 1h 33min
Race, policing, and the universal yearning for safety
2020-09-14 • 53min
How to think about coronavirus risk in your life
2020-09-10 • 1h 9min
Black Republicans, Donald Trump, and America's "George Floyd moment"
2020-09-07 • 1h 28min
Andrew Yang on UBI, coronavirus, and his next job in politics
2020-09-03 • 1h 29min
Why the hell did America invade Iraq?
2020-08-31 • 1h 21min
How to decarbonize America — and create 25 million jobs
2020-08-27 • 1h 10min
Isabel Wilkerson wants to change how we understand race in America
2020-08-24 • 1h 38min
What it would take to end child poverty in America
2020-08-20 • 53min
Hannah Gadsby on comedy, free speech, and living with autism
2020-08-17 • 1h 33min
What would Keynes do?
2020-08-13 • 1h 44min
A devastating indictment of the Republican Party
2020-08-10 • 1h 1min
How inequality and white identity politics feed each other
2020-08-06 • 1h 18min
Best of: Jia Tolentino on what happens when life is an endless performance
2020-08-03 • 1h 45min
Dadding out with Mike Birbiglia
2020-07-30 • 1h 19min
A rabbi explains how to make sense of suffering
2020-07-27 • 57min
The crisis in the news
2020-07-23 • 52min
Bryan Stevenson on how America can heal
2020-07-20 • 1h 21min
What a post-Trump Republican Party might look like
2020-07-16 • 1h 21min
Free speech, safety, and ‘the letter’
2020-07-13 • 1h 31min
The frightening fragility of America's political institutions
2020-07-09 • 1h 9min
Can artificial intelligence be emotionally intelligent?
2020-07-06 • 1h 18min
Danielle Allen on the radicalism of the American revolution — and its lessons for today
2020-07-02 • 1h 12min
Land of the Giants: The Netflix Effect
2020-07-01 • 17min
Nicholas Carr on deep reading and digital thinking
2020-06-29 • 1h 12min
Your questions, answered
2020-06-25 • 1h 23min
Which country has the world's best healthcare system?
2020-06-22 • 1h 10min
The transformative power of restorative justice
2020-06-18 • 1h 14min
Ross Douthat and I debate American decadence
2020-06-15 • 1h 35min
A serious conversation about UFOs
2020-06-11 • 1h 29min
A former prosecutor's case for prison abolition
2020-06-08 • 1h 6min
Why Ta-Nehisi Coates is hopeful
2020-06-04 • 1h 32min
Are humans fundamentally good? (with Rutger Bregman)
2020-06-01 • 1h 39min
From politician to priest
2020-05-28 • 2h 4min
Robert Frank's radical idea
2020-05-25 • 1h 14min
Why “essential” workers are treated as disposable
2020-05-21 • 1h 12min
"The world’s scariest economist” on coronavirus, innovation, and purpose
2020-05-18 • 1h 24min
A mind-bending conversation about quantum mechanics and parallel worlds
2020-05-14 • 1h 22min
Why the coronavirus is so deadly for black America
2020-05-11 • 1h 22min