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. From the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Philosophy
Politics
News Commentary
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Astra Taylor will change how you think about de...
Is democracy even possible? A conversation with Astra Taylor
76 min
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Is big tech addictive? Nir Eyal and I debate.
Is big tech addictive? Nir Eyal and Ezra debate.
73 min
478
Generation Climate Change
Ezra sits down with Varshini Prakash of Sunrise Movement
91 min
479
Is the media amplifying Trump’s racism? (with W...
Ezra interviews Whitney Phillips
82 min
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Rutger Bregman’s utopias, and mine
Ezra interviews Rutger Bregman
86 min
481
How white identity politics won the Republican ...
83 min
482
George Will makes the conservative case against...
70 min
483
What deliberative democracy can, and can’t, do ...
Ezra interviews Jane Mansbridge
51 min
484
Rod Dreher on America’s post-Christian culture ...
110 min
485
White threat in a browning America (Jennifer Ri...
73 min
486
Behind the panic in white, Christian America
91 min
487
An enlightening, frustrating conversation on li...
105 min
488
The cognitive cost of poverty (with Sendhil Mul...
93 min
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Failing towards Utopia
20 min
490
Why liberals and conservatives create such diff...
90 min
491
Stacey Abrams and Lauren Groh-Wargo (Live!)
59 min
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This changed how I think about love (with Aliso...
93 min
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The plan behind Elizabeth Warren’s plans
49 min
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Michael Lewis reads my mind
101 min
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How Mitch McConnell convinced Michael Bennet to...
73 min
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How the brains of master meditators change
68 min
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Why good people are easily corrupted (with Lawr...
79 min
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The art of attention (with Jenny Odell)
85 min
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Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housi...
Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housing crisis
59 min
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What kind of news is cable news? (With Brian St...
82 min