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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The surprising story of how American politics p...
62 min
627
The most important idea for understanding Ameri...
73 min
628
What economists and politicians get wrong about...
54 min
629
How to disagree better
94 min
630
Jaron Lanier’s case for deleting social media r...
77 min
631
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had about...
65 min
632
The Supreme Court vs. Democracy
64 min
633
Eric Garcetti on the lessons of Los Angeles
60 min
634
What Ellen Pao saw coming
51 min
635
The Green Pill
57 min
636
How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’...
71 min
637
Political power and the racial wealth gap
77 min
638
Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American comp...
84 min
639
A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
79 min
640
Optimism about America
78 min
641
The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter refl...
55 min
642
The age of "mega-identity" politics
74 min
643
Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
110 min
644
Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained...
57 min
645
Is modern society making us depressed?
87 min
646
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min
647
The Sam Harris Debate
128 min
648
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and...
46 min
649
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Tru...
80 min
650
Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate chang...
50 min