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 modern society making us depressed?
87 min
602
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min
603
The Sam Harris Debate
128 min
604
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and...
46 min
605
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Tru...
80 min
606
Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate chang...
50 min
607
A better conversation on guns
49 min
608
This isn’t Joe Kennedy’s grandfather’s Democrat...
61 min
609
Amy Chua on how tribalism is tearing America apart
59 min
610
How technology brings out the worst in us, with...
69 min
611
Steven Pinker: enlightenment values made this t...
65 min
612
Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara
71 min
613
How Democracies Die
72 min
614
How to oppose Trump without becoming more like him
69 min
615
You will love this conversation with Jaron Lani...
95 min
616
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had on Tr...
73 min
617
Pod Save America’s Jon Favreau on Trump’s first...
58 min
618
The inside story of Doug Jones’s win in Alabama
59 min
619
What life is like in North Korea
46 min
620
"An orgy of serious policy discussion" with Pau...
93 min
621
The case for impeachment
66 min
622
What Buddhism got right about the human brain
75 min
623
Rebecca Traister on #MeToo, female rage, and An...
86 min
624
Ai-jen Poo: the future of work isn’t robots. It...
61 min
625
Evan Osnos on the North Korea crisis, Trump’s m...
82 min