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
Is starting a family becoming impossible?
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The millennial midlife crisis
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How to be less neurotic
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Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change
Olga Kazan
author of me but better the scientist and promise of personality change ▶ tap to play from here
10% Happier
Dan Harris
one of the books that i read kind of in in reporting out my book is 10 happier ▶ tap to play from here
Your body wasn’t built for a desk
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Body Electric
Manoush Zomorodi
a benoiticious new book body electric about what a life of sitting and staring at screens is doing to us ▶ tap to play from here
The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
we know john height's book the anxious generation has been on the bestseller list for years now ▶ tap to play from here
Why we want to believe in aliens
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We Want to Believe: How Aliens Went Mainstream and Why It Matters
Adam Kirsch
he's a senior editor at the atlantic and author of we want to believe how aliens went mainstream and why it matters ▶ tap to play from here
Straight dating isn’t broken
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Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
John Gray
men are from mars women are from venus was a bestseller for a reason ▶ tap to play from here
Kidneys for sale
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How memory changes you
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Why We Remember
Sharon Ranganath
my guest today is sharon ranganov a neuroscientist and author of a book called why we remember ▶ tap to play from here
Freud was right about one thing
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The Only Cure: Freud and the Neuroscience of Mental Healing
Mark Solms
he's a neuropsychologist and the author of the only cure freud and the neuroscience of mental healing ▶ tap to play from here
Why straight dating feels bleak
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Disposable
Sarah Jones
and my first book disposable is out now from avid reader press ▶ tap to play from here
We’re postliterate
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The Boxcar Children
Gertrude Chandler Warner
my sisters were always excited to to talk about the boxcar children with me and everything like that ▶ tap to play from here
Orality and Literacy
Walter Ong
this is a story that walter ong wrote about in his book orality and literacy ▶ tap to play from here
The Odyssey
Homer
i mean i think everyone's talking about the odyssey right now ▶ tap to play from here
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
in ap english we were reading grapes of wrath ▶ tap to play from here
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
should we really be judging people for reading the hunger games instead of crime and punishment ▶ tap to play from here
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
should we really be judging people for reading the hunger games instead of crime and punishment ▶ tap to play from here
What does a parent owe their child?
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The vanishing pleasures of daily life
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The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratify Life
Anne Bocost
his new book is called the small stuff how to lead a more gratify life ▶ tap to play from here
Essays and Aphorisms
Arthur Schopenhauer
he has a book called essays and aphorisms ▶ tap to play from here
How Google broke the internet
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The Bible
Various Authors - Compiled by Mark T
it happened actually when the protestant reformation happened and you got access to the bible for the first time in the printing press ▶ tap to play from here
The illusion of the ‘self’
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The Self Delusion: The New Neuroscience of How We Invent and Reinvent Our Identities
Gregory Burns
and the author of a fascinating new book called the self delusion the new neuroscience of how we invent and reinvent our identities ▶ tap to play from here
How MAGA is turning on itself
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The global baby bust
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Why public opinion turned on AI
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The Technology Trap
Carl Benedict Frey
the book that i really recommend here is carl benedict fresse the technology trap he's an oxford economist ▶ tap to play from here
A skeptic considers the case for God
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Confessions
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
i read saint augustine in college uh in grad school actually and i was moved bye the the the beauty and the intimacy of the confessions in particular ▶ tap to play from here
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
you look at a book like the brothers karmasov right in that book you have both the most like beautiful case for god and also the most devastating rejection of god ▶ tap to play from here
The “Godzilla El Niño” is coming
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