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
Is the media amplifying Trump’s racism? (with W...
Ezra interviews Whitney Phillips
82 min
527
Rutger Bregman’s utopias, and mine
Ezra interviews Rutger Bregman
86 min
528
How white identity politics won the Republican ...
83 min
529
George Will makes the conservative case against...
70 min
530
What deliberative democracy can, and can’t, do ...
Ezra interviews Jane Mansbridge
51 min
531
Rod Dreher on America’s post-Christian culture ...
110 min
532
White threat in a browning America (Jennifer Ri...
73 min
533
Behind the panic in white, Christian America
91 min
534
An enlightening, frustrating conversation on li...
105 min
535
The cognitive cost of poverty (with Sendhil Mul...
93 min
536
Failing towards Utopia
20 min
537
Why liberals and conservatives create such diff...
90 min
538
Stacey Abrams and Lauren Groh-Wargo (Live!)
59 min
539
This changed how I think about love (with Aliso...
93 min
540
The plan behind Elizabeth Warren’s plans
49 min
541
Michael Lewis reads my mind
101 min
542
How Mitch McConnell convinced Michael Bennet to...
73 min
543
How the brains of master meditators change
68 min
544
Why good people are easily corrupted (with Lawr...
79 min
545
The art of attention (with Jenny Odell)
85 min
546
Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housi...
Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housing crisis
59 min
547
What kind of news is cable news? (With Brian St...
82 min
548
Contrapoints on taking the trolls seriously
75 min
549
The purpose of political violence
75 min
550
Ask Ezra Anything 3: Endgame
Ezra answers listener questions
90 min