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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Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American comp...
84 min
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A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
79 min
628
Optimism about America
78 min
629
The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter refl...
55 min
630
The age of "mega-identity" politics
74 min
631
Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
110 min
632
Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained...
57 min
633
Is modern society making us depressed?
87 min
634
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min
635
The Sam Harris Debate
128 min
636
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and...
46 min
637
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Tru...
80 min
638
Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate chang...
50 min
639
A better conversation on guns
49 min
640
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
642
How technology brings out the worst in us, with...
69 min
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Steven Pinker: enlightenment values made this t...
65 min
644
Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara
71 min
645
How Democracies Die
72 min
646
How to oppose Trump without becoming more like him
69 min
647
You will love this conversation with Jaron Lani...
95 min
648
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had on Tr...
73 min
649
Pod Save America’s Jon Favreau on Trump’s first...
58 min
650
The inside story of Doug Jones’s win in Alabama
59 min