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