The Gray Area with Sean Illing
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. N
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- 1 Men Are from Mars, Women Are from VenusJohn Gray · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 Moral EconomicsAl Roth · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 We Want to Believe: How Aliens Went Mainstream and Why It MattersAdam Kirsch · 1× across 1 episode
“Her new book is called Valley of Death. how big tech is fueling the future of war”
“journalist Kevin Roos. whose new book, The AGI Chronicles, The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence”
“Dario Amade in particular is obsessed with this book, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which is a polter winning history of the Manhattan Project written by Richard Rhodes”
“we talk about her book, The Nice Life, how to elevate the everyday and find joy in what you have”
“Danielle has just written a new book titled Generation Uncoupled. America's new gender divide and the crisis of human connection”
“some of that was drawn from your, you know, truly excellent book, Rethinking Sex, right”
“author of a book with an unforgettable title. Why it's okay. To want to be rich”
“Adam Smith wrote this book called The Wealth of Nations in seventeen seventy six”
“a book coming out in about a month that's called uh Uh glass houses choosing grace in a judgmental world”
“scathing new book. Traumatized. The new politics of public suffering”
“E. P. Thompson tries to paint a port. portrait of that in the invention of the English working class”
“you have to go into E. P. Thompson and Marks To get an account of what it was like to be in In the factories”
“I think you're talking about Freddie Deborah's book, I think on um mental illness as identity”
“Theew's book is called How to Rule the World, and the title isn't a metaphor”
“Her new book, Inconceivable, The Impossibility of Family in an Age of Uncertainty, goes deep, reporting with insight and fantastic stories on the web of factors influencing the new turn away from childbearing”
“There's this book that I read when I was in my early 30s”
“It's called Life After Ambition, a Good Enough Memoir”
“author of me. But better. The scientist and promise of personality change”
“one of the books that I read kind of in in reporting out my book is 10% happier”
“A Benoiticious New Book. Body Electric. About what a life of sitting and staring at screens is doing to us”
“we know John Height's book, The Anxious Generation, has been on the bestseller list for years now”
“He's a senior editor at The Atlantic and author of We want to believe. How aliens went mainstream and why it matters”
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