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.
| Title | Date published | ||
| The joy of uncertainty | 2024-01-22 | ||
| A pro-worker work ethic | 2024-01-15 | ||
| How psychedelics can reinvent learning | 2024-01-08 | ||
| Seeing ourselves through the darkness | 2023-12-26 | ||
| Living Mindfully | 2023-12-18 | ||
| Taking anarchism seriously | 2023-12-11 | ||
| 3,000 years of The Iliad | 2023-12-04 | ||
| Late-stage liberalism | 2023-11-27 | ||
| The case against free will | 2023-11-20 | ||
| A Jew and a Muslim get honest about Israel and Gaza | 2023-11-13 | ||
| How to keep panic from attacking | 2023-11-06 | ||
| We Are What We Watch | 2023-10-30 | ||
| Werner Herzog’s ecstatic truth | 2023-10-23 | ||
| The lessons of Sam Bankman-Fried | 2023-10-16 | ||
| Is America getting meaner? | 2023-10-02 | ||
| Naomi Klein on her doppelganger (and yours) | 2023-09-25 | ||
| Should we press pause on AI? | 2023-09-18 | ||
| Democracy’s existential crisis | 2023-09-11 | ||
| Conservative socialism? | 2023-08-28 | ||
| The benefits of utopian thinking | 2023-08-21 |