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
526
Behind the panic in white, Christian America
91 min
527
An enlightening, frustrating conversation on li...
105 min
528
The cognitive cost of poverty (with Sendhil Mul...
93 min
529
Failing towards Utopia
20 min
530
Why liberals and conservatives create such diff...
90 min
531
Stacey Abrams and Lauren Groh-Wargo (Live!)
59 min
532
This changed how I think about love (with Aliso...
93 min
533
The plan behind Elizabeth Warren’s plans
49 min
534
Michael Lewis reads my mind
101 min
535
How Mitch McConnell convinced Michael Bennet to...
73 min
536
How the brains of master meditators change
68 min
537
Why good people are easily corrupted (with Lawr...
79 min
538
The art of attention (with Jenny Odell)
85 min
539
Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housi...
Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housing crisis
59 min
540
What kind of news is cable news? (With Brian St...
82 min
541
Contrapoints on taking the trolls seriously
75 min
542
The purpose of political violence
75 min
543
Ask Ezra Anything 3: Endgame
Ezra answers listener questions
90 min
544
The disillusionment of David Brooks
93 min
545
Emily Oster schools me on parenthood
51 min
546
Lessons from Vox’s first 5 years
90 min
547
Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle
79 min
548
How social democrats won Europe — then lost it
64 min
549
In defense of white-backlash politics
96 min
550
Identity, nationalism, and fatherhood
103 min