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