Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDying with dignity
Sean Illing talks with reporter Katie Engelhart, whose book The Inevitable is an up-close look at physician-assisted dying. This is the practice of r…
3 years, 4 months ago
Finding hope in a world on the brink
Sean Illing talks with Jonathan Lear, a psychoanalyst and philosopher, about his new book Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life. How can we co…
3 years, 4 months ago
The new American Reconstruction
Sean Illing talks with historian and author Peniel Joseph about his new book The Third Reconstruction, which argues that the time we're currently liv…
3 years, 4 months ago
Is America losing its religion?
Sean Illing talks with Reza Aslan, scholar of religions and author of multiple bestselling nonfiction works, to discuss the state of religion in Amer…
3 years, 4 months ago
How we got to January 6th
Sean Illing talks with war reporter and New Yorker contributing writer Luke Mogelson about his new book The Storm Is Here. In it, Luke shares his on-…
3 years, 4 months ago
Neil deGrasse Tyson gets political
On this first episode of The Gray Area, Sean Illing talks with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who takes on many of our most vexing societal prob…
3 years, 4 months ago
Introducing The Gray Area
Resist certainty, embrace ambiguity. The Gray Area is a philosophical take on culture, politics, and everything in between with host Sean Illing. We …
3 years, 4 months ago
Best of: Why America's obsession with rights is wrong
In this episode originally recorded in July 2021, Vox's Zack Beauchamp talks with Columbia law professor Jamal Greene about his book How Rights Went …
3 years, 4 months ago
A GOP insider on why the party went Trump
Sean Illing talks with former Republican strategist Tim Miller about his new book Why We Did It, which offers an inside look at Donald Trump's total …
3 years, 5 months ago
How do we fix the harm we cause?
Vox’s Marin Cogan talks with Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg about her new book On Repentance And Repair, which is about how to make amends in the modern worl…
3 years, 5 months ago