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
551
What deliberative democracy can, and can’t, do ...
Ezra interviews Jane Mansbridge
51 min
552
Rod Dreher on America’s post-Christian culture ...
110 min
553
White threat in a browning America (Jennifer Ri...
73 min
554
Behind the panic in white, Christian America
91 min
555
An enlightening, frustrating conversation on li...
105 min
556
The cognitive cost of poverty (with Sendhil Mul...
93 min
557
Failing towards Utopia
20 min
558
Why liberals and conservatives create such diff...
90 min
559
Stacey Abrams and Lauren Groh-Wargo (Live!)
59 min
560
This changed how I think about love (with Aliso...
93 min
561
The plan behind Elizabeth Warren’s plans
49 min
562
Michael Lewis reads my mind
101 min
563
How Mitch McConnell convinced Michael Bennet to...
73 min
564
How the brains of master meditators change
68 min
565
Why good people are easily corrupted (with Lawr...
79 min
566
The art of attention (with Jenny Odell)
85 min
567
Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housi...
Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housing crisis
59 min
568
What kind of news is cable news? (With Brian St...
82 min
569
Contrapoints on taking the trolls seriously
75 min
570
The purpose of political violence
75 min
571
Ask Ezra Anything 3: Endgame
Ezra answers listener questions
90 min
572
The disillusionment of David Brooks
93 min
573
Emily Oster schools me on parenthood
51 min
574
Lessons from Vox’s first 5 years
90 min
575
Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle
79 min