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 | ||
| Attention pays (with Chris Hayes) | 2025-01-27 | ||
| How to be happy | 2025-01-20 | ||
| The screens between us | 2025-01-13 | ||
| The importance of failure | 2025-01-06 | ||
| What to do with your sadness, pain, and grief | 2024-12-23 | ||
| What do animals feel? | 2024-12-16 | ||
| Are men okay? | 2024-12-09 | ||
| How to feel alive | 2024-12-02 | ||
| The antidote to climate anxiety | 2024-11-25 | ||
| America’s reactionary moment | 2024-11-18 | ||
| Well this is awkward | 2024-11-11 | ||
| What just happened, and what comes next | 2024-11-08 | ||
| Does being "woke" do any good? | 2024-11-04 | ||
| Is America collapsing like Ancient Rome? | 2024-10-28 | ||
| The world according to Werner Herzog | 2024-10-21 | ||
| Ta-Nehisi Coates on complexity, clarity, and truth. | 2024-10-14 | ||
| Your mind needs chaos | 2024-10-09 | ||
| Musician Laraaji on the origin of creativity | 2024-10-08 | ||
| Is AI creative? | 2024-10-07 | ||
| Happiness isn’t the goal | 2024-09-30 |