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