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