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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Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
110 min
602
Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained...
57 min
603
Is modern society making us depressed?
87 min
604
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min
605
The Sam Harris Debate
128 min
606
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and...
46 min
607
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Tru...
80 min
608
Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate chang...
50 min
609
A better conversation on guns
49 min
610
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
612
How technology brings out the worst in us, with...
69 min
613
Steven Pinker: enlightenment values made this t...
65 min
614
Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara
71 min
615
How Democracies Die
72 min
616
How to oppose Trump without becoming more like him
69 min
617
You will love this conversation with Jaron Lani...
95 min
618
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had on Tr...
73 min
619
Pod Save America’s Jon Favreau on Trump’s first...
58 min
620
The inside story of Doug Jones’s win in Alabama
59 min
621
What life is like in North Korea
46 min
622
"An orgy of serious policy discussion" with Pau...
93 min
623
The case for impeachment
66 min
624
What Buddhism got right about the human brain
75 min
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Rebecca Traister on #MeToo, female rage, and An...
86 min