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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Rep. Katie Porter on how capitalism is failing
76 min
627
How Hasan Minhaj is reinventing political comedy
98 min
628
Adam Serwer on white political correctness
47 min
629
Will Storr on why you are not yourself
82 min
630
How to be a better carnivore
32 min
631
Peter Beinart on anti-Semitism in America and i...
83 min
632
Where Jonathan Haidt thinks the American mind w...
108 min
633
The Impact: Deportation without representation
30 min
634
Molly Ball on Nancy Pelosi’s future and Paul Ry...
59 min
635
Whitney Phillips explains how Trump controls th...
106 min
636
Ask Ezra Anything
92 min
637
Presidents in crisis with Slow Burn’s Leon Neyfakh
80 min
638
Sandy Darity has a plan to close the wealth gap
47 min
639
How identity politics elected Donald Trump
94 min
640
Rep. Mark Sanford on losing the Republican Part...
60 min
641
Doris Kearns Goodwin (live!) on how great presi...
79 min
642
What Nate Silver's learned about forecasting el...
75 min
643
Jay Rosen is pessimistic about the media. So am I.
78 min
644
Why Bill Gates is worried
56 min
645
Reihan Salam makes the case against open borders
86 min
646
Jose Antonio Vargas on living undocumented in T...
84 min
647
Rebecca Traister: Women's rage is transforming ...
67 min
648
Patrick Deneen says liberalism has failed. Is h...
56 min
649
Francis Fukuyama’s case against identity politics
88 min
650
Carol Anderson on the myth of American democracy
52 min