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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Ta-Nehisi Coates is not here to comfort you
67 min
627
How the Republican Party created Donald Trump
105 min
628
Reihan Salam wants to remake the Republican Par...
76 min
629
David Remnick on journalism in the Trump era an...
82 min
630
What Hillary Clinton really thinks
54 min
631
Dan Rather thought he'd seen it all. But then c...
65 min
632
From 4Chan to Charlottesville: where the alt-ri...
83 min
633
Why prosecutors, not cops, are the keys to crim...
73 min
634
Chris Hayes on whether Trump should be removed ...
64 min
635
Sen. Michael Bennet on why this is a dismal, so...
75 min
636
What’s scary isn’t Trump’s illiberalism but Ame...
62 min
637
Julia Galef on how to argue better and change y...
88 min
638
Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia, the first psychologist t...
65 min
639
Eddie Izzard on World War I, cake or death, and...
65 min
640
Avik Roy and Ezra debate the Senate GOP's healt...
83 min
641
danah boyd on why fake news is so easy to believe
84 min
642
Al Franken on learning to be a politician
52 min
643
Zephyr Teachout on suing Trump, fighting corrup...
89 min
644
Masha Gessen offers a plausible Trump-Russia th...
63 min
645
Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism
63 min
646
Yascha Mounk: Is Trump’s incompetence saving us...
91 min
647
Bryan Stevenson on why the opposite of poverty ...
89 min
648
Death, Sex, and Money’s Anna Sale on bringing e...
50 min
649
Cory Booker returns, live, to talk trust, Trump...
67 min
650
VC Bill Gurley on transforming health care
69 min