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