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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Happiness isn’t the goal
2024-09-30 • 53min
A message from Sean
2024-09-27 • 1min
What if we get climate change right?
2024-09-23 • 48min
Yuval Noah Harari on the eclipsing of human intelligence
2024-09-16 • 1h 27min
Why cynicism is bad for you
2024-09-09 • 58min
Poetry as religion
2024-09-02 • 59min
The jazz musician’s guide to the universe
2024-08-26 • 57min
Revisiting the "father of capitalism"
2024-08-19 • 55min
Breaking our family patterns
2024-08-12 • 1h 6min
Why Orwell matters
2024-08-05 • 56min
The timebomb the founding fathers left us
2024-07-29 • 50min
Swear like a philosopher
2024-07-22 • 44min
Taking Nietzsche seriously
2024-07-15 • 1h 2min
What India teaches us about liberalism — and its decline
2024-07-08 • 46min
1992: The year politics broke
2024-07-01 • 44min
The existential struggle of being Black
2024-06-24 • 55min
The world after nuclear war
2024-06-17 • 57min
Gaza, Camus, and the logic of violence
2024-06-10 • 54min
This is your kid on smartphones
2024-06-03 • 53min
Life after death?
2024-05-20 • 52min
The world after Ozempic
2024-05-13 • 50min
UFOs, God, and the edge of understanding
2024-05-06 • 46min
How to listen
2024-04-29 • 55min
Everything's a cult now
2024-04-22 • 53min
Fareed Zakaria on our revolutionary moment
2024-04-15 • 45min
Life is hard. Can philosophy help?
2024-04-08 • 51min
The American dream is a pyramid scheme
2024-04-01 • 46min
The chaplain who doesn't believe in God
2024-03-25 • 48min
Can a friend be our most significant other?
2024-03-18 • 50min
The power of climate fiction
2024-03-11 • 47min
The denial of death
2024-03-04 • 45min
A brief history of extinction panics
2024-02-26 • 50min
The new(ish) world order
2024-02-19 • 42min
The free-market century is over
2024-02-12 • 54min
Music and mysticism
2024-02-05 • 47min
The case for banning...millionaires?
2024-01-29 • 53min
The joy of uncertainty
2024-01-22 • 48min
A pro-worker work ethic
2024-01-15 • 41min
How psychedelics can reinvent learning
2024-01-08 • 37min
Seeing ourselves through the darkness
2023-12-26 • 55min
Living Mindfully
2023-12-18 • 41min
Taking anarchism seriously
2023-12-11 • 50min
3,000 years of The Iliad
2023-12-04 • 36min
Late-stage liberalism
2023-11-27 • 53min
The case against free will
2023-11-20 • 58min
A Jew and a Muslim get honest about Israel and Gaza
2023-11-13 • 1h 29s
How to keep panic from attacking
2023-11-06 • 49min
We Are What We Watch
2023-10-30 • 56min
Werner Herzog’s ecstatic truth
2023-10-23 • 56min
The lessons of Sam Bankman-Fried
2023-10-16 • 55min