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 | ||
| A philosopher's psychedelic encounter with reality | 2023-05-04 | ||
| The project of Socratic love with Agnes Callard | 2023-05-01 | ||
| The chemistry of connection | 2023-04-27 | ||
| What a slow civil war looks like | 2023-04-24 | ||
| How to listen | 2023-04-20 | ||
| Why we can't give up on persuasion | 2023-04-17 | ||
| Rep. Katie Porter's working-class politics | 2023-04-13 | ||
| The climate apocalypse will be televised | 2023-04-10 | ||
| A philosopher takes on religious life | 2023-04-06 | ||
| Your brain isn't so private anymore | 2023-04-03 | ||
| Brian Stelter thinks the news has a reliability problem | 2023-03-30 | ||
| How corporations got all your data | 2023-03-27 | ||
| The case for failure | 2023-03-16 | ||
| Poetry as religion | 2023-03-13 | ||
| Revisiting the American Dream | 2023-03-09 | ||
| The cost of saving pandas | 2023-03-06 | ||
| Breaking our family patterns | 2023-03-02 | ||
| For Black horror fans, fact is scarier than fiction | 2023-02-27 | ||
| Taking Nietzsche seriously | 2023-02-23 | ||
| The dark history of Silicon Valley | 2023-02-16 |