704 Episodes

  1. Astra Taylor will change how you think about democracy

    Published: 5/08/2019

  2. Is big tech addictive? Nir Eyal and I debate.

    Published: 1/08/2019

  3. Generation Climate Change

    Published: 29/07/2019

  4. Is the media amplifying Trump’s racism? (with Whitney Phillips)

    Published: 25/07/2019

  5. Rutger Bregman’s utopias, and mine

    Published: 22/07/2019

  6. How white identity politics won the Republican civil war

    Published: 18/07/2019

  7. George Will makes the conservative case against democracy

    Published: 15/07/2019

  8. What deliberative democracy can, and can’t, do (with Jane Mansbridge)

    Published: 11/07/2019

  9. Rod Dreher on America’s post-Christian culture war [CORRECTED]

    Published: 8/07/2019

  10. White threat in a browning America (Jennifer Richeson re-air)

    Published: 4/07/2019

  11. Behind the panic in white, Christian America

    Published: 1/07/2019

  12. An enlightening, frustrating conversation on liberalism (with Adam Gopnik)

    Published: 27/06/2019

  13. The cognitive cost of poverty (with Sendhil Mullainathan)

    Published: 24/06/2019

  14. Failing towards Utopia

    Published: 21/06/2019

  15. Why liberals and conservatives create such different media (with Danna Young)

    Published: 20/06/2019

  16. Stacey Abrams and Lauren Groh-Wargo (Live!)

    Published: 17/06/2019

  17. This changed how I think about love (with Alison Gopnik)

    Published: 13/06/2019

  18. The plan behind Elizabeth Warren’s plans

    Published: 10/06/2019

  19. Michael Lewis reads my mind

    Published: 6/06/2019

  20. How Mitch McConnell convinced Michael Bennet to run for president

    Published: 3/06/2019

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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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