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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The Impact: Deportation without representation
30 min
552
Molly Ball on Nancy Pelosi’s future and Paul Ry...
59 min
553
Whitney Phillips explains how Trump controls th...
106 min
554
Ask Ezra Anything
92 min
555
Presidents in crisis with Slow Burn’s Leon Neyfakh
80 min
556
Sandy Darity has a plan to close the wealth gap
47 min
557
How identity politics elected Donald Trump
94 min
558
Rep. Mark Sanford on losing the Republican Part...
60 min
559
Doris Kearns Goodwin (live!) on how great presi...
79 min
560
What Nate Silver's learned about forecasting el...
75 min
561
Jay Rosen is pessimistic about the media. So am I.
78 min
562
Why Bill Gates is worried
56 min
563
Reihan Salam makes the case against open borders
86 min
564
Jose Antonio Vargas on living undocumented in T...
84 min
565
Rebecca Traister: Women's rage is transforming ...
67 min
566
Patrick Deneen says liberalism has failed. Is h...
56 min
567
Francis Fukuyama’s case against identity politics
88 min
568
Carol Anderson on the myth of American democracy
52 min
569
Martha C. Nussbaum on how fear deforms our poli...
54 min
570
David French on “The Great White Culture War"
89 min
571
Your attention is being hijacked. Chris Bailey ...
62 min
572
Anand Giridharadas on the elite charade of chan...
90 min
573
I build a world with fantasy master N.K. Jemisin
79 min
574
Reup: Zephyr Teachout vs. Corruption
89 min
575
Is our economy totally screwed? Andrew Yang and...
68 min