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