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