704 Episodes

  1. Mysteries of the mind

    Published: 5/15/2023
  2. Why we can’t just blame capitalism for everything

    Published: 5/11/2023
  3. Being human in the age of AI

    Published: 5/8/2023
  4. A philosopher's psychedelic encounter with reality

    Published: 5/4/2023
  5. The project of Socratic love with Agnes Callard

    Published: 5/1/2023
  6. The chemistry of connection

    Published: 4/27/2023
  7. What a slow civil war looks like

    Published: 4/24/2023
  8. How to listen

    Published: 4/20/2023
  9. Why we can't give up on persuasion

    Published: 4/17/2023
  10. Rep. Katie Porter's working-class politics

    Published: 4/13/2023
  11. The climate apocalypse will be televised

    Published: 4/10/2023
  12. A philosopher takes on religious life

    Published: 4/6/2023
  13. Your brain isn't so private anymore

    Published: 4/3/2023
  14. Brian Stelter thinks the news has a reliability problem

    Published: 3/30/2023
  15. How corporations got all your data

    Published: 3/27/2023
  16. The case for failure

    Published: 3/16/2023
  17. Poetry as religion

    Published: 3/13/2023
  18. Revisiting the American Dream

    Published: 3/9/2023
  19. The cost of saving pandas

    Published: 3/6/2023
  20. Breaking our family patterns

    Published: 3/2/2023

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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.