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
601
The Supreme Court vs. Democracy
64 min
602
Eric Garcetti on the lessons of Los Angeles
60 min
603
What Ellen Pao saw coming
51 min
604
The Green Pill
57 min
605
How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’...
71 min
606
Political power and the racial wealth gap
77 min
607
Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American comp...
84 min
608
A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
79 min
609
Optimism about America
78 min
610
The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter refl...
55 min
611
The age of "mega-identity" politics
74 min
612
Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
110 min
613
Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained...
57 min
614
Is modern society making us depressed?
87 min
615
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min
616
The Sam Harris Debate
128 min
617
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and...
46 min
618
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Tru...
80 min
619
Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate chang...
50 min
620
A better conversation on guns
49 min
621
This isn’t Joe Kennedy’s grandfather’s Democrat...
61 min
622
Amy Chua on how tribalism is tearing America apart
59 min
623
How technology brings out the worst in us, with...
69 min
624
Steven Pinker: enlightenment values made this t...
65 min
625
Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara
71 min