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