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
The cognitive cost of poverty (with Sendhil Mul...
93 min
552
Failing towards Utopia
20 min
553
Why liberals and conservatives create such diff...
90 min
554
Stacey Abrams and Lauren Groh-Wargo (Live!)
59 min
555
This changed how I think about love (with Aliso...
93 min
556
The plan behind Elizabeth Warren’s plans
49 min
557
Michael Lewis reads my mind
101 min
558
How Mitch McConnell convinced Michael Bennet to...
73 min
559
How the brains of master meditators change
68 min
560
Why good people are easily corrupted (with Lawr...
79 min
561
The art of attention (with Jenny Odell)
85 min
562
Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housi...
Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housing crisis
59 min
563
What kind of news is cable news? (With Brian St...
82 min
564
Contrapoints on taking the trolls seriously
75 min
565
The purpose of political violence
75 min
566
Ask Ezra Anything 3: Endgame
Ezra answers listener questions
90 min
567
The disillusionment of David Brooks
93 min
568
Emily Oster schools me on parenthood
51 min
569
Lessons from Vox’s first 5 years
90 min
570
Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle
79 min
571
How social democrats won Europe — then lost it
64 min
572
In defense of white-backlash politics
96 min
573
Identity, nationalism, and fatherhood
103 min
574
An ex-libertarian’s quest to rebuild the center...
81 min
575
How whiteness distorts our democracy, with Eddi...
86 min