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