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 our economy totally screwed? Andrew Yang and...
68 min
627
Chef Marcus Samuelsson on immigration, creativi...
69 min
628
Why online politics gets so extreme so fast
62 min
629
Taking Trump’s corruption seriously
62 min
630
The surprising story of how American politics p...
62 min
631
The most important idea for understanding Ameri...
73 min
632
What economists and politicians get wrong about...
54 min
633
How to disagree better
94 min
634
Jaron Lanier’s case for deleting social media r...
77 min
635
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had about...
65 min
636
The Supreme Court vs. Democracy
64 min
637
Eric Garcetti on the lessons of Los Angeles
60 min
638
What Ellen Pao saw coming
51 min
639
The Green Pill
57 min
640
How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’...
71 min
641
Political power and the racial wealth gap
77 min
642
Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American comp...
84 min
643
A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
79 min
644
Optimism about America
78 min
645
The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter refl...
55 min
646
The age of "mega-identity" politics
74 min
647
Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
110 min
648
Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained...
57 min
649
Is modern society making us depressed?
87 min
650
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min