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