704 Episodes

  1. How politics became a war against reality

    Published: 14/10/2019
  2. The loneliness epidemic

    Published: 10/10/2019
  3. Ibram X. Kendi wants to redefine racism

    Published: 7/10/2019
  4. Malcolm Gladwell’s Stranger Things

    Published: 3/10/2019
  5. An inspiring conversation about democracy

    Published: 30/09/2019
  6. Samantha Power’s journey from foreign policy critic to UN ambassador

    Published: 26/09/2019
  7. When meritocracy wins, everybody loses

    Published: 23/09/2019
  8. Nikole Hannah-Jones on the 1619 project, choosing schools, and Cuba

    Published: 19/09/2019
  9. Randall Munroe, the genius behind XKCD

    Published: 16/09/2019
  10. Julián Castro's quiet moral radicalism

    Published: 12/09/2019
  11. Political animals (with Leah Garcés)

    Published: 9/09/2019
  12. John McWhorter thinks we're getting racism wrong

    Published: 5/09/2019
  13. The rocky marriage between libertarians and conservatives

    Published: 2/09/2019
  14. A mind-bending, reality-warping conversation with John Higgs

    Published: 29/08/2019
  15. Jia Tolentino on what happens when life is an endless performance

    Published: 26/08/2019
  16. The original meaning of “identity politics” (with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor)

    Published: 22/08/2019
  17. Are bosses dictators? (with Elizabeth Anderson)

    Published: 19/08/2019
  18. The Constitution is a progressive document

    Published: 15/08/2019
  19. Matt Bruenig’s case for single-payer health care

    Published: 12/08/2019
  20. Can Raj Chetty save the American dream?

    Published: 8/08/2019

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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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