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