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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What Ellen Pao saw coming
51 min
602
The Green Pill
57 min
603
How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’...
71 min
604
Political power and the racial wealth gap
77 min
605
Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American comp...
84 min
606
A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
79 min
607
Optimism about America
78 min
608
The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter refl...
55 min
609
The age of "mega-identity" politics
74 min
610
Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
110 min
611
Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained...
57 min
612
Is modern society making us depressed?
87 min
613
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min
614
The Sam Harris Debate
128 min
615
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and...
46 min
616
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Tru...
80 min
617
Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate chang...
50 min
618
A better conversation on guns
49 min
619
This isn’t Joe Kennedy’s grandfather’s Democrat...
61 min
620
Amy Chua on how tribalism is tearing America apart
59 min
621
How technology brings out the worst in us, with...
69 min
622
Steven Pinker: enlightenment values made this t...
65 min
623
Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara
71 min
624
How Democracies Die
72 min
625
How to oppose Trump without becoming more like him
69 min