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