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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Robert Sapolsky on the toxic intersection of po...
75 min
552
Frances Lee on why bipartisanship is irrational
57 min
553
Sean Decatur doesn’t see a free speech crisis o...
75 min
554
Cal Newport has an answer for digital burnout
66 min
555
Eric Holder’s plan to save democracy
60 min
556
Anil Dash on the biases of tech
77 min
557
Jill Lepore on America’s two revolutions
90 min
558
Best of: N.K. Jemisin
80 min
559
Best-of: Bryan Stevenson
89 min
560
Kara Swisher interviews me on the Future of Jou...
90 min
561
TED’s Chris Anderson on the lessons of listening
66 min
562
Rep. Katie Porter on how capitalism is failing
76 min
563
How Hasan Minhaj is reinventing political comedy
98 min
564
Adam Serwer on white political correctness
47 min
565
Will Storr on why you are not yourself
82 min
566
How to be a better carnivore
32 min
567
Peter Beinart on anti-Semitism in America and i...
83 min
568
Where Jonathan Haidt thinks the American mind w...
108 min
569
The Impact: Deportation without representation
30 min
570
Molly Ball on Nancy Pelosi’s future and Paul Ry...
59 min
571
Whitney Phillips explains how Trump controls th...
106 min
572
Ask Ezra Anything
92 min
573
Presidents in crisis with Slow Burn’s Leon Neyfakh
80 min
574
Sandy Darity has a plan to close the wealth gap
47 min
575
How identity politics elected Donald Trump
94 min