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
576
White threat in a browning America (Jennifer Ri...
73 min
577
Behind the panic in white, Christian America
91 min
578
An enlightening, frustrating conversation on li...
105 min
579
The cognitive cost of poverty (with Sendhil Mul...
93 min
580
Failing towards Utopia
20 min
581
Why liberals and conservatives create such diff...
90 min
582
Stacey Abrams and Lauren Groh-Wargo (Live!)
59 min
583
This changed how I think about love (with Aliso...
93 min
584
The plan behind Elizabeth Warren’s plans
49 min
585
Michael Lewis reads my mind
101 min
586
How Mitch McConnell convinced Michael Bennet to...
73 min
587
How the brains of master meditators change
68 min
588
Why good people are easily corrupted (with Lawr...
79 min
589
The art of attention (with Jenny Odell)
85 min
590
Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housi...
Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housing crisis
59 min
591
What kind of news is cable news? (With Brian St...
82 min
592
Contrapoints on taking the trolls seriously
75 min
593
The purpose of political violence
75 min
594
Ask Ezra Anything 3: Endgame
Ezra answers listener questions
90 min
595
The disillusionment of David Brooks
93 min
596
Emily Oster schools me on parenthood
51 min
597
Lessons from Vox’s first 5 years
90 min
598
Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle
79 min
599
How social democrats won Europe — then lost it
64 min
600
In defense of white-backlash politics
96 min