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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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
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How white identity politics won the Republican ...
83 min
504
George Will makes the conservative case against...
70 min
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What deliberative democracy can, and can’t, do ...
Ezra interviews Jane Mansbridge
51 min
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Rod Dreher on America’s post-Christian culture ...
110 min
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White threat in a browning America (Jennifer Ri...
73 min
508
Behind the panic in white, Christian America
91 min
509
An enlightening, frustrating conversation on li...
105 min
510
The cognitive cost of poverty (with Sendhil Mul...
93 min
511
Failing towards Utopia
20 min
512
Why liberals and conservatives create such diff...
90 min
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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
518
How the brains of master meditators change
68 min
519
Why good people are easily corrupted (with Lawr...
79 min
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The art of attention (with Jenny Odell)
85 min
521
Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housi...
Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housing crisis
59 min
522
What kind of news is cable news? (With Brian St...
82 min
523
Contrapoints on taking the trolls seriously
75 min
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The purpose of political violence
75 min
525
Ask Ezra Anything 3: Endgame
Ezra answers listener questions
90 min