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 | ||
| Best of: A new philosophy of love | 2023-06-26 | ||
| The future of tribalism | 2023-06-22 | ||
| When you can't separate art from artist | 2023-06-15 | ||
| The case for not killing yourself | 2023-06-12 | ||
| What comes after Black Lives Matter? | 2023-06-08 | ||
| Clickbait’s destructive legacy | 2023-06-05 | ||
| Simone Weil’s radical philosophy of love and attention | 2023-06-01 | ||
| Peter Singer on his ethical legacy | 2023-05-25 | ||
| Why the poor in America stay poor | 2023-05-22 | ||
| The spiritual roots of our strange relationship to work | 2023-05-18 | ||
| Mysteries of the mind | 2023-05-15 | ||
| Why we can’t just blame capitalism for everything | 2023-05-11 | ||
| Being human in the age of AI | 2023-05-08 | ||
| 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 |