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
626
Eric Garcetti on the lessons of Los Angeles
60 min
627
What Ellen Pao saw coming
51 min
628
The Green Pill
57 min
629
How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’...
71 min
630
Political power and the racial wealth gap
77 min
631
Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American comp...
84 min
632
A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
79 min
633
Optimism about America
78 min
634
The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter refl...
55 min
635
The age of "mega-identity" politics
74 min
636
Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
110 min
637
Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained...
57 min
638
Is modern society making us depressed?
87 min
639
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min
640
The Sam Harris Debate
128 min
641
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and...
46 min
642
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Tru...
80 min
643
Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate chang...
50 min
644
A better conversation on guns
49 min
645
This isn’t Joe Kennedy’s grandfather’s Democrat...
61 min
646
Amy Chua on how tribalism is tearing America apart
59 min
647
How technology brings out the worst in us, with...
69 min
648
Steven Pinker: enlightenment values made this t...
65 min
649
Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara
71 min
650
How Democracies Die
72 min