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
Michael Lewis reads my mind
101 min
527
How Mitch McConnell convinced Michael Bennet to...
73 min
528
How the brains of master meditators change
68 min
529
Why good people are easily corrupted (with Lawr...
79 min
530
The art of attention (with Jenny Odell)
85 min
531
Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housi...
Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housing crisis
59 min
532
What kind of news is cable news? (With Brian St...
82 min
533
Contrapoints on taking the trolls seriously
75 min
534
The purpose of political violence
75 min
535
Ask Ezra Anything 3: Endgame
Ezra answers listener questions
90 min
536
The disillusionment of David Brooks
93 min
537
Emily Oster schools me on parenthood
51 min
538
Lessons from Vox’s first 5 years
90 min
539
Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle
79 min
540
How social democrats won Europe — then lost it
64 min
541
In defense of white-backlash politics
96 min
542
Identity, nationalism, and fatherhood
103 min
543
An ex-libertarian’s quest to rebuild the center...
81 min
544
How whiteness distorts our democracy, with Eddi...
86 min
545
Pete Buttigieg’s theory of political change
56 min
546
Meet the policy architect behind the Green New ...
79 min
547
The somewhat fractured state of American conser...
58 min
548
American politics after Christianity, with Ross...
74 min
549
Why Gov. Jay Inslee is running for president on...
62 min
550
ICYMI: Julia Galef
88 min