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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Matt Bruenig’s case for single-payer health care
Ezra interviews Matt Bruenig
119 min
552
Can Raj Chetty save the American dream?
Ezra chats with Raj Chetty about the fading American dream.
77 min
553
Astra Taylor will change how you think about de...
Is democracy even possible? A conversation with Astra Taylor
76 min
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Is big tech addictive? Nir Eyal and I debate.
Is big tech addictive? Nir Eyal and Ezra debate.
73 min
555
Generation Climate Change
Ezra sits down with Varshini Prakash of Sunrise Movement
91 min
556
Is the media amplifying Trump’s racism? (with W...
Ezra interviews Whitney Phillips
82 min
557
Rutger Bregman’s utopias, and mine
Ezra interviews Rutger Bregman
86 min
558
How white identity politics won the Republican ...
83 min
559
George Will makes the conservative case against...
70 min
560
What deliberative democracy can, and can’t, do ...
Ezra interviews Jane Mansbridge
51 min
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Rod Dreher on America’s post-Christian culture ...
110 min
562
White threat in a browning America (Jennifer Ri...
73 min
563
Behind the panic in white, Christian America
91 min
564
An enlightening, frustrating conversation on li...
105 min
565
The cognitive cost of poverty (with Sendhil Mul...
93 min
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Failing towards Utopia
20 min
567
Why liberals and conservatives create such diff...
90 min
568
Stacey Abrams and Lauren Groh-Wargo (Live!)
59 min
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This changed how I think about love (with Aliso...
93 min
570
The plan behind Elizabeth Warren’s plans
49 min
571
Michael Lewis reads my mind
101 min
572
How Mitch McConnell convinced Michael Bennet to...
73 min
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How the brains of master meditators change
68 min
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Why good people are easily corrupted (with Lawr...
79 min
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The art of attention (with Jenny Odell)
85 min