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
Contrapoints on taking the trolls seriously
75 min
552
The purpose of political violence
75 min
553
Ask Ezra Anything 3: Endgame
Ezra answers listener questions
90 min
554
The disillusionment of David Brooks
93 min
555
Emily Oster schools me on parenthood
51 min
556
Lessons from Vox’s first 5 years
90 min
557
Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle
79 min
558
How social democrats won Europe — then lost it
64 min
559
In defense of white-backlash politics
96 min
560
Identity, nationalism, and fatherhood
103 min
561
An ex-libertarian’s quest to rebuild the center...
81 min
562
How whiteness distorts our democracy, with Eddi...
86 min
563
Pete Buttigieg’s theory of political change
56 min
564
Meet the policy architect behind the Green New ...
79 min
565
The somewhat fractured state of American conser...
58 min
566
American politics after Christianity, with Ross...
74 min
567
Why Gov. Jay Inslee is running for president on...
62 min
568
ICYMI: Julia Galef
88 min
569
The roots of extremism, with Deeyah Khan
79 min
570
ICYMI: Paul Krugman
94 min
571
Pop music can make you smarter
21 min
572
Life after climate change, with David Wallace-W...
69 min
573
Pramila Jayapal thinks we can get to Medicare-f...
54 min
574
Noah Rothman on the "unjustice" of social justi...
67 min
575
Why should we care about deficits?
62 min