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
476
Generation Climate Change
Ezra sits down with Varshini Prakash of Sunrise Movement
91 min
477
Is the media amplifying Trump’s racism? (with W...
Ezra interviews Whitney Phillips
82 min
478
Rutger Bregman’s utopias, and mine
Ezra interviews Rutger Bregman
86 min
479
How white identity politics won the Republican ...
83 min
480
George Will makes the conservative case against...
70 min
481
What deliberative democracy can, and can’t, do ...
Ezra interviews Jane Mansbridge
51 min
482
Rod Dreher on America’s post-Christian culture ...
110 min
483
White threat in a browning America (Jennifer Ri...
73 min
484
Behind the panic in white, Christian America
91 min
485
An enlightening, frustrating conversation on li...
105 min
486
The cognitive cost of poverty (with Sendhil Mul...
93 min
487
Failing towards Utopia
20 min
488
Why liberals and conservatives create such diff...
90 min
489
Stacey Abrams and Lauren Groh-Wargo (Live!)
59 min
490
This changed how I think about love (with Aliso...
93 min
491
The plan behind Elizabeth Warren’s plans
49 min
492
Michael Lewis reads my mind
101 min
493
How Mitch McConnell convinced Michael Bennet to...
73 min
494
How the brains of master meditators change
68 min
495
Why good people are easily corrupted (with Lawr...
79 min
496
The art of attention (with Jenny Odell)
85 min
497
Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housi...
Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housing crisis
59 min
498
What kind of news is cable news? (With Brian St...
82 min
499
Contrapoints on taking the trolls seriously
75 min
500
The purpose of political violence
75 min