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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Is modern society making us depressed?
87 min
627
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min
628
The Sam Harris Debate
128 min
629
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and...
46 min
630
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Tru...
80 min
631
Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate chang...
50 min
632
A better conversation on guns
49 min
633
This isn’t Joe Kennedy’s grandfather’s Democrat...
61 min
634
Amy Chua on how tribalism is tearing America apart
59 min
635
How technology brings out the worst in us, with...
69 min
636
Steven Pinker: enlightenment values made this t...
65 min
637
Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara
71 min
638
How Democracies Die
72 min
639
How to oppose Trump without becoming more like him
69 min
640
You will love this conversation with Jaron Lani...
95 min
641
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had on Tr...
73 min
642
Pod Save America’s Jon Favreau on Trump’s first...
58 min
643
The inside story of Doug Jones’s win in Alabama
59 min
644
What life is like in North Korea
46 min
645
"An orgy of serious policy discussion" with Pau...
93 min
646
The case for impeachment
66 min
647
What Buddhism got right about the human brain
75 min
648
Rebecca Traister on #MeToo, female rage, and An...
86 min
649
Ai-jen Poo: the future of work isn’t robots. It...
61 min
650
Evan Osnos on the North Korea crisis, Trump’s m...
82 min