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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Taking Trump’s corruption seriously
62 min
602
The surprising story of how American politics p...
62 min
603
The most important idea for understanding Ameri...
73 min
604
What economists and politicians get wrong about...
54 min
605
How to disagree better
94 min
606
Jaron Lanier’s case for deleting social media r...
77 min
607
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had about...
65 min
608
The Supreme Court vs. Democracy
64 min
609
Eric Garcetti on the lessons of Los Angeles
60 min
610
What Ellen Pao saw coming
51 min
611
The Green Pill
57 min
612
How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’...
71 min
613
Political power and the racial wealth gap
77 min
614
Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American comp...
84 min
615
A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
79 min
616
Optimism about America
78 min
617
The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter refl...
55 min
618
The age of "mega-identity" politics
74 min
619
Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
110 min
620
Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained...
57 min
621
Is modern society making us depressed?
87 min
622
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min
623
The Sam Harris Debate
128 min
624
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and...
46 min
625
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Tru...
80 min