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. New episodes drop every Monday.

Philosophy
Politics
News Commentary
276
How to replace everything in the industrialized...
58 min
277
Patricia Lockwood's big, beautiful internet brain
51 min
278
Who is the real George Soros?
53 min
279
Introducing Unexplainable
A new podcast from Vox about everything we don’t know.
26 min
280
The border, explained by someone who knows it i...
51 min
281
"Wintering," wisdom, and weathering life's dark...
62 min
282
Reframing America's race problem
49 min
283
Who owns the Western?
45 min
284
A Watchmen writer on race, TV, and tech giants
52 min
285
Uncovering the history of psychedelics in Chris...
48 min
286
Biden's immigration architect on racism, reform...
58 min
287
The Capitol Siege and American Revolution
41 min
288
Why fascism in Post-Trump America isn't going away
Vox's Sean Illing and Yale professor Jason Stanley discuss why American democracy provides such fertile soil for fascism
40 min
289
The Joe Biden experience
Ezra Klein and Evan Osnos discuss our new president
61 min
290
What it means to be a "good" rich person
Exploring the anxieties of wealthy people and their desire to be seen as "middle class."
46 min
291
Peter Kafka and Kevin Roose on big tech's power...
26 min
292
Sam Sanders and Olivia Nuzzi on President Trump...
41 min
293
Best of: We don’t just feel emotions. We make t...
A mind-blowing conversation with Lisa Feldman Barrett on how emotion is made
90 min
294
Best of: Ending the age of animal cruelty, with...
75 min
295
Best of: The moral philosophy of The Good Place
98 min
296
Best of: Michael Lewis reads my mind
101 min
297
Best of: Tracy K. Smith changed how I read poetry
85 min
298
What I’ve learned, and what comes next.
Ezra reflects on his time with Vox, what he's learned, and what comes next.
38 min
299
Best of: An inspiring conversation about democr...
67 min
300
Michael Pollan on the psychedelic society
70 min