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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Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min
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The Sam Harris Debate
128 min
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Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and...
46 min
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Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Tru...
80 min
630
Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate chang...
50 min
631
A better conversation on guns
49 min
632
This isn’t Joe Kennedy’s grandfather’s Democrat...
61 min
633
Amy Chua on how tribalism is tearing America apart
59 min
634
How technology brings out the worst in us, with...
69 min
635
Steven Pinker: enlightenment values made this t...
65 min
636
Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara
71 min
637
How Democracies Die
72 min
638
How to oppose Trump without becoming more like him
69 min
639
You will love this conversation with Jaron Lani...
95 min
640
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had on Tr...
73 min
641
Pod Save America’s Jon Favreau on Trump’s first...
58 min
642
The inside story of Doug Jones’s win in Alabama
59 min
643
What life is like in North Korea
46 min
644
"An orgy of serious policy discussion" with Pau...
93 min
645
The case for impeachment
66 min
646
What Buddhism got right about the human brain
75 min
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Rebecca Traister on #MeToo, female rage, and An...
86 min
648
Ai-jen Poo: the future of work isn’t robots. It...
61 min
649
Evan Osnos on the North Korea crisis, Trump’s m...
82 min
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Why politics needs more conflict, not less
72 min