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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The necessity — and danger — of free speech
2022-07-25 • 56min
Hacking coral sex to save the reefs
2022-07-21 • 55min
The price of keeping secrets
2022-07-18 • 52min
Does China control Hollywood?
2022-07-14 • 1h 4min
Steve Bannon is still at war
2022-07-11 • 50min
The Fortress of Solitude saw it all coming
2022-06-30 • 39min
The Philosophers: Stoic revival
2022-06-27 • 1h 5min
Station Eleven's creator on the end of the world
2022-06-23 • 52min
The racist origins of fat phobia
2022-06-16 • 54min
The fight for Ukraine — and democracy
2022-06-13 • 54min
The war on trans people
2022-06-09 • 55min
Michael Ian Black on being a better man
2022-06-06 • 56min
Carmen Maria Machado's haunted feminine
2022-06-02 • 42min
The rise and fall of America's monuments
2022-05-26 • 50min
The Philosophers: America's philosophy, with Cornel West
2022-05-23 • 1h 1min
Why accidents aren't accidental
2022-05-19 • 53min
Rethinking the "end of history"
2022-05-16 • 1h 2min
Anita Hill finally gets even
2022-05-12 • 1h 1min
Elites have captured identity politics
2022-05-09 • 58min
The moral dangers of dirty work
2022-05-05 • 59min
Did the sexual revolution go wrong?
2022-05-02 • 58min
Who decides how to conserve nature?
2022-04-28 • 56min
The Philosophers: Loneliness and totalitarianism
2022-04-25 • 1h 3min
The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 4: The future of Europe
2022-04-21 • 1h 4min
Michael Lewis on why Americans distrust experts
2022-04-18 • 58min
The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 3: The nuclear threat
2022-04-14 • 56min
The case for regret
2022-04-11 • 51min
The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 2: Sanctions
2022-04-07 • 1h 1min
The spirituality of parenting
2022-04-04 • 49min
The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 1: Why did Putin go to war?
2022-03-31 • 1h 1min
The Philosophers: Resisting despair
2022-03-28 • 56min
What happened to American conservatism?
2022-03-24 • 1h 31s
The limits of forgiveness
2022-03-21 • 52min
The madness behind The Method
2022-03-17 • 1h 8min
David Cross is disappointed in you guys
2022-03-14 • 49min
Author Kiley Reid on why we read novels
2022-03-10 • 47min
The conversation about guns we're not having
2022-03-07 • 1h 4min
Why does middle school suck?
2022-03-03 • 1h 5min
Russia's war with Ukraine — and reality
2022-02-28 • 39min
Robert Glasper on why Black Radio is back
2022-02-24 • 57min
Could we lose delicious foods forever?
2022-02-17 • 1h 6min
What Don't Look Up is really about
2022-02-14 • 1h 1min
Democracy in crisis, part 2: The two-party problem
2022-02-10 • 58min
Why we can't pay attention anymore
2022-02-07 • 1h 4min
Democracy in crisis, part 1: Ross Douthat isn't too worried
2022-02-03 • 1h 6min
Pod Save the Democrats
2022-01-31 • 1h 41s
A Yellowjackets creator spills his guts
2022-01-27 • 44min
A scientist's case for "woo-woo"
2022-01-24 • 1h 34s
Imagine a future with no police
2022-01-20 • 1h 5min
Novelist Lauren Groff on the other Matrix
2022-01-13 • 47min