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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Best of: The age of "mega-identity" politics
2019-11-28 • 1h 16min
Because podcast
2019-11-25 • 1h 22min
There’s more to life than profit
2019-11-21 • 1h 34min
Having a bad day? Dave Eggers can help.
2019-11-18 • 1h 25min
How Whole Foods, yoga, and NPR became the hallmarks of the elite
2019-11-14 • 1h 13min
How social media makes us antisocial
2019-11-11 • 1h 35min
ICYMI: Edward Norton’s theory of mind, movies, and power
2019-11-08 • 1h 53min
Introducing Reset
2019-11-08 • 42min
What a smarter Trumpism would sound like
2019-11-07 • 1h 27min
The climate crisis is an oceans crisis
2019-11-04 • 1h 14min
We live in The Good Place. And we’re screwing it up.
2019-10-28 • 1h 27min
Neoliberalism and its discontents
2019-10-24 • 1h 34min
The four words that will decide impeachment
2019-10-21 • 55min
We don’t just feel emotions. We make them.
2019-10-17 • 1h 35min
How politics became a war against reality
2019-10-14 • 1h 29min
The loneliness epidemic
2019-10-10 • 1h 21min
Ibram X. Kendi wants to redefine racism
2019-10-07 • 1h 31min
Malcolm Gladwell’s Stranger Things
2019-10-03 • 1h 37min
An inspiring conversation about democracy
2019-09-30 • 1h 32min
Samantha Power’s journey from foreign policy critic to UN ambassador
2019-09-26 • 1h 33min
When meritocracy wins, everybody loses
2019-09-23 • 1h 31min
Nikole Hannah-Jones on the 1619 project, choosing schools, and Cuba
2019-09-19 • 1h 44min
Randall Munroe, the genius behind XKCD
2019-09-16 • 1h 27min
Julián Castro's quiet moral radicalism
2019-09-12 • 1h 7min
Political animals (with Leah Garcés)
2019-09-09 • 1h 32min
John McWhorter thinks we're getting racism wrong
2019-09-05 • 1h 9min
The rocky marriage between libertarians and conservatives
2019-09-02 • 1h 28min
A mind-bending, reality-warping conversation with John Higgs
2019-08-29 • 1h 31min
Jia Tolentino on what happens when life is an endless performance
2019-08-26 • 1h 44min
The original meaning of “identity politics” (with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor)
2019-08-22 • 1h 24min
Are bosses dictators? (with Elizabeth Anderson)
2019-08-19 • 1h 30min
The Constitution is a progressive document
2019-08-15 • 1h 2min
Matt Bruenig’s case for single-payer health care
2019-08-12 • 2h 4min
Can Raj Chetty save the American dream?
2019-08-08 • 1h 22min
Astra Taylor will change how you think about democracy
2019-08-05 • 1h 21min
Is big tech addictive? Nir Eyal and I debate.
2019-08-01 • 1h 19min
Generation Climate Change
2019-07-29 • 1h 37min
Is the media amplifying Trump’s racism? (with Whitney Phillips)
2019-07-25 • 1h 27min
Rutger Bregman’s utopias, and mine
2019-07-22 • 1h 32min
How white identity politics won the Republican civil war
2019-07-18 • 1h 28min
George Will makes the conservative case against democracy
2019-07-15 • 1h 16min
What deliberative democracy can, and can’t, do (with Jane Mansbridge)
2019-07-11 • 56min
Rod Dreher on America’s post-Christian culture war [CORRECTED]
2019-07-08 • 1h 55min
White threat in a browning America (Jennifer Richeson re-air)
2019-07-04 • 1h 18min
Behind the panic in white, Christian America
2019-07-01 • 1h 36min
An enlightening, frustrating conversation on liberalism (with Adam Gopnik)
2019-06-27 • 1h 51min
The cognitive cost of poverty (with Sendhil Mullainathan)
2019-06-24 • 1h 39min
Failing towards Utopia
2019-06-21 • 20min
Why liberals and conservatives create such different media (with Danna Young)
2019-06-20 • 1h 36min
Stacey Abrams and Lauren Groh-Wargo (Live!)
2019-06-17 • 1h 4min