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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Robert Sapolsky on the toxic intersection of po...
75 min
627
Frances Lee on why bipartisanship is irrational
57 min
628
Sean Decatur doesn’t see a free speech crisis o...
75 min
629
Cal Newport has an answer for digital burnout
66 min
630
Eric Holder’s plan to save democracy
60 min
631
Anil Dash on the biases of tech
77 min
632
Jill Lepore on America’s two revolutions
90 min
633
Best of: N.K. Jemisin
80 min
634
Best-of: Bryan Stevenson
89 min
635
Kara Swisher interviews me on the Future of Jou...
90 min
636
TED’s Chris Anderson on the lessons of listening
66 min
637
Rep. Katie Porter on how capitalism is failing
76 min
638
How Hasan Minhaj is reinventing political comedy
98 min
639
Adam Serwer on white political correctness
47 min
640
Will Storr on why you are not yourself
82 min
641
How to be a better carnivore
32 min
642
Peter Beinart on anti-Semitism in America and i...
83 min
643
Where Jonathan Haidt thinks the American mind w...
108 min
644
The Impact: Deportation without representation
30 min
645
Molly Ball on Nancy Pelosi’s future and Paul Ry...
59 min
646
Whitney Phillips explains how Trump controls th...
106 min
647
Ask Ezra Anything
92 min
648
Presidents in crisis with Slow Burn’s Leon Neyfakh
80 min
649
Sandy Darity has a plan to close the wealth gap
47 min
650
How identity politics elected Donald Trump
94 min