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