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