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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Generation Climate Change
Ezra sits down with Varshini Prakash of Sunrise Movement
91 min
552
Is the media amplifying Trump’s racism? (with W...
Ezra interviews Whitney Phillips
82 min
553
Rutger Bregman’s utopias, and mine
Ezra interviews Rutger Bregman
86 min
554
How white identity politics won the Republican ...
83 min
555
George Will makes the conservative case against...
70 min
556
What deliberative democracy can, and can’t, do ...
Ezra interviews Jane Mansbridge
51 min
557
Rod Dreher on America’s post-Christian culture ...
110 min
558
White threat in a browning America (Jennifer Ri...
73 min
559
Behind the panic in white, Christian America
91 min
560
An enlightening, frustrating conversation on li...
105 min
561
The cognitive cost of poverty (with Sendhil Mul...
93 min
562
Failing towards Utopia
20 min
563
Why liberals and conservatives create such diff...
90 min
564
Stacey Abrams and Lauren Groh-Wargo (Live!)
59 min
565
This changed how I think about love (with Aliso...
93 min
566
The plan behind Elizabeth Warren’s plans
49 min
567
Michael Lewis reads my mind
101 min
568
How Mitch McConnell convinced Michael Bennet to...
73 min
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How the brains of master meditators change
68 min
570
Why good people are easily corrupted (with Lawr...
79 min
571
The art of attention (with Jenny Odell)
85 min
572
Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housi...
Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housing crisis
59 min
573
What kind of news is cable news? (With Brian St...
82 min
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Contrapoints on taking the trolls seriously
75 min
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The purpose of political violence
75 min