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 Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’...
71 min
602
Political power and the racial wealth gap
77 min
603
Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American comp...
84 min
604
A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
79 min
605
Optimism about America
78 min
606
The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter refl...
55 min
607
The age of "mega-identity" politics
74 min
608
Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
110 min
609
Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained...
57 min
610
Is modern society making us depressed?
87 min
611
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min
612
The Sam Harris Debate
128 min
613
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and...
46 min
614
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Tru...
80 min
615
Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate chang...
50 min
616
A better conversation on guns
49 min
617
This isn’t Joe Kennedy’s grandfather’s Democrat...
61 min
618
Amy Chua on how tribalism is tearing America apart
59 min
619
How technology brings out the worst in us, with...
69 min
620
Steven Pinker: enlightenment values made this t...
65 min
621
Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara
71 min
622
How Democracies Die
72 min
623
How to oppose Trump without becoming more like him
69 min
624
You will love this conversation with Jaron Lani...
95 min
625
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had on Tr...
73 min