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