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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Why online politics gets so extreme so fast
62 min
602
Taking Trump’s corruption seriously
62 min
603
The surprising story of how American politics p...
62 min
604
The most important idea for understanding Ameri...
73 min
605
What economists and politicians get wrong about...
54 min
606
How to disagree better
94 min
607
Jaron Lanier’s case for deleting social media r...
77 min
608
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had about...
65 min
609
The Supreme Court vs. Democracy
64 min
610
Eric Garcetti on the lessons of Los Angeles
60 min
611
What Ellen Pao saw coming
51 min
612
The Green Pill
57 min
613
How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’...
71 min
614
Political power and the racial wealth gap
77 min
615
Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American comp...
84 min
616
A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
79 min
617
Optimism about America
78 min
618
The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter refl...
55 min
619
The age of "mega-identity" politics
74 min
620
Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
110 min
621
Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained...
57 min
622
Is modern society making us depressed?
87 min
623
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min
624
The Sam Harris Debate
128 min
625
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and...
46 min