704 Episodes

  1. The end of social media

    Published: 12/1/2022
  2. If society is making us sick, how can we heal?

    Published: 11/28/2022
  3. The free-market century is over

    Published: 11/21/2022
  4. Your identity is a story you tell yourself

    Published: 11/17/2022
  5. James Carville unpacks the midterms

    Published: 11/14/2022
  6. Why are billionaires prepping for the apocalypse?

    Published: 11/10/2022
  7. Today's Republicans were made in the 1990s

    Published: 11/7/2022
  8. Yuval Noah Harari thinks humans are unstoppable

    Published: 11/3/2022
  9. Dying with dignity

    Published: 10/31/2022
  10. Finding hope in a world on the brink

    Published: 10/27/2022
  11. The new American Reconstruction

    Published: 10/24/2022
  12. Is America losing its religion?

    Published: 10/20/2022
  13. How we got to January 6th

    Published: 10/17/2022
  14. Neil deGrasse Tyson gets political

    Published: 10/13/2022
  15. Introducing The Gray Area

    Published: 10/11/2022
  16. Best of: Why America's obsession with rights is wrong

    Published: 10/6/2022
  17. A GOP insider on why the party went Trump

    Published: 10/3/2022
  18. How do we fix the harm we cause?

    Published: 9/29/2022
  19. A new philosophy of love

    Published: 9/26/2022
  20. The politics of 'Yellowstone'

    Published: 9/23/2022

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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.