704 Episodes

  1. The highs and lows of the "creator economy"

    Published: 18/11/2021

  2. Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now

    Published: 15/11/2021

  3. The stories soul food tells

    Published: 11/11/2021

  4. The paradox of American freedom

    Published: 8/11/2021

  5. Nonbinary parenthood

    Published: 4/11/2021

  6. John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist

    Published: 1/11/2021

  7. The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care

    Published: 28/10/2021

  8. How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation panic

    Published: 25/10/2021

  9. Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom

    Published: 21/10/2021

  10. What the internet took from us

    Published: 18/10/2021

  11. Trapped inside with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi

    Published: 14/10/2021

  12. Bryan Stevenson on the legacy of enslavement

    Published: 7/10/2021

  13. What's your status?

    Published: 4/10/2021

  14. Is there a hack for enlightenment?

    Published: 30/09/2021

  15. Fighting a world on fire with fire

    Published: 27/09/2021

  16. Revolutionary Love

    Published: 23/09/2021

  17. How to make meaning out of suffering

    Published: 20/09/2021

  18. Ken Burns's latest on The Greatest

    Published: 16/09/2021

  19. The road from 9/11 to Donald Trump

    Published: 13/09/2021

  20. Rep. Pramila Jayapal on immigrants and America after 9/11

    Published: 9/09/2021

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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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