Sean Illing
Host of The Gray Area
Latest articles by Sean Illing
The Gray Area
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Mark Lilla, author of a new book on ignorance, discusses when we’re better off searching for knowledge and when we’re better off living in the dark.
By Sean Illing
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The Gray Area
How the attention economy is reshaping our world.
By Sean Illing
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The Gray Area
Technology and the cost of convenience, explained.
By Sean Illing
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The Gray Area
Why is it so hard to talk about masculinity?
By Sean Illing
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The Gray Area
How to feel alive, explained by a philosopher.
By Sean Illing
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The Gray Area
How Trump’s Republican Party left conservatism behind.
By Sean Illing and Zack Beauchamp
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The Gray Area
Musa al-Gharbi on his new book We Have Never Been Woke.
By Sean Illing
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The Gray Area
Caesar, Trump, and the future of American democracy.
By Sean Illing
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The Gray Area
What the author saw in Palestine.
By Sean Illing
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The Gray Area
Laraaji — ambient musician and onetime actor and comic — on laughter, surrender, and transcending the thinking mind.
By Sean Illing