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
This changed how I think about love (with Aliso...
93 min
577
The plan behind Elizabeth Warren’s plans
49 min
578
Michael Lewis reads my mind
101 min
579
How Mitch McConnell convinced Michael Bennet to...
73 min
580
How the brains of master meditators change
68 min
581
Why good people are easily corrupted (with Lawr...
79 min
582
The art of attention (with Jenny Odell)
85 min
583
Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housi...
Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housing crisis
59 min
584
What kind of news is cable news? (With Brian St...
82 min
585
Contrapoints on taking the trolls seriously
75 min
586
The purpose of political violence
75 min
587
Ask Ezra Anything 3: Endgame
Ezra answers listener questions
90 min
588
The disillusionment of David Brooks
93 min
589
Emily Oster schools me on parenthood
51 min
590
Lessons from Vox’s first 5 years
90 min
591
Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle
79 min
592
How social democrats won Europe — then lost it
64 min
593
In defense of white-backlash politics
96 min
594
Identity, nationalism, and fatherhood
103 min
595
An ex-libertarian’s quest to rebuild the center...
81 min
596
How whiteness distorts our democracy, with Eddi...
86 min
597
Pete Buttigieg’s theory of political change
56 min
598
Meet the policy architect behind the Green New ...
79 min
599
The somewhat fractured state of American conser...
58 min
600
American politics after Christianity, with Ross...
74 min