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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How to disagree better
94 min
627
Jaron Lanier’s case for deleting social media r...
77 min
628
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had about...
65 min
629
The Supreme Court vs. Democracy
64 min
630
Eric Garcetti on the lessons of Los Angeles
60 min
631
What Ellen Pao saw coming
51 min
632
The Green Pill
57 min
633
How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’...
71 min
634
Political power and the racial wealth gap
77 min
635
Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American comp...
84 min
636
A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
79 min
637
Optimism about America
78 min
638
The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter refl...
55 min
639
The age of "mega-identity" politics
74 min
640
Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
110 min
641
Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained...
57 min
642
Is modern society making us depressed?
87 min
643
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min
644
The Sam Harris Debate
128 min
645
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and...
46 min
646
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Tru...
80 min
647
Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate chang...
50 min
648
A better conversation on guns
49 min
649
This isn’t Joe Kennedy’s grandfather’s Democrat...
61 min
650
Amy Chua on how tribalism is tearing America apart
59 min