704 Episodes

  1. Democracy’s existential crisis

    Published: 9/11/2023
  2. Conservative socialism?

    Published: 8/28/2023
  3. The benefits of utopian thinking

    Published: 8/21/2023
  4. What Clarence Thomas really thinks

    Published: 8/14/2023
  5. The new crisis of masculinity

    Published: 8/7/2023
  6. How we all became a brand

    Published: 7/31/2023
  7. The therapeutic potential of MDMA

    Published: 7/24/2023
  8. Is the journey to self-discovery pointless?

    Published: 7/17/2023
  9. Parenting through the climate crisis

    Published: 7/10/2023
  10. Seeing ourselves through darkness

    Published: 6/29/2023
  11. Best of: A new philosophy of love

    Published: 6/26/2023
  12. The future of tribalism

    Published: 6/22/2023
  13. When you can't separate art from artist

    Published: 6/15/2023
  14. The case for not killing yourself

    Published: 6/12/2023
  15. What comes after Black Lives Matter?

    Published: 6/8/2023
  16. Clickbait’s destructive legacy

    Published: 6/5/2023
  17. Simone Weil’s radical philosophy of love and attention

    Published: 6/1/2023
  18. Peter Singer on his ethical legacy

    Published: 5/25/2023
  19. Why the poor in America stay poor

    Published: 5/22/2023
  20. The spiritual roots of our strange relationship to work

    Published: 5/18/2023

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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.