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