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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Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American comp...
84 min
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A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
79 min
603
Optimism about America
78 min
604
The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter refl...
55 min
605
The age of "mega-identity" politics
74 min
606
Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
110 min
607
Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained...
57 min
608
Is modern society making us depressed?
87 min
609
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min
610
The Sam Harris Debate
128 min
611
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and...
46 min
612
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Tru...
80 min
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Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate chang...
50 min
614
A better conversation on guns
49 min
615
This isn’t Joe Kennedy’s grandfather’s Democrat...
61 min
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Amy Chua on how tribalism is tearing America apart
59 min
617
How technology brings out the worst in us, with...
69 min
618
Steven Pinker: enlightenment values made this t...
65 min
619
Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara
71 min
620
How Democracies Die
72 min
621
How to oppose Trump without becoming more like him
69 min
622
You will love this conversation with Jaron Lani...
95 min
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The most clarifying conversation I’ve had on Tr...
73 min
624
Pod Save America’s Jon Favreau on Trump’s first...
58 min
625
The inside story of Doug Jones’s win in Alabama
59 min