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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Why politics needs more conflict, not less
72 min
627
Why the Weinstein scandal gives Tig Notaro hope...
41 min
628
What happens when human beings take control of ...
61 min
629
Ta-Nehisi Coates is not here to comfort you
67 min
630
How the Republican Party created Donald Trump
105 min
631
Reihan Salam wants to remake the Republican Par...
76 min
632
David Remnick on journalism in the Trump era an...
82 min
633
What Hillary Clinton really thinks
54 min
634
Dan Rather thought he'd seen it all. But then c...
65 min
635
From 4Chan to Charlottesville: where the alt-ri...
83 min
636
Why prosecutors, not cops, are the keys to crim...
73 min
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Chris Hayes on whether Trump should be removed ...
64 min
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Sen. Michael Bennet on why this is a dismal, so...
75 min
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What’s scary isn’t Trump’s illiberalism but Ame...
62 min
640
Julia Galef on how to argue better and change y...
88 min
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Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia, the first psychologist t...
65 min
642
Eddie Izzard on World War I, cake or death, and...
65 min
643
Avik Roy and Ezra debate the Senate GOP's healt...
83 min
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danah boyd on why fake news is so easy to believe
84 min
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Al Franken on learning to be a politician
52 min
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Zephyr Teachout on suing Trump, fighting corrup...
89 min
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Masha Gessen offers a plausible Trump-Russia th...
63 min
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Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism
63 min
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Yascha Mounk: Is Trump’s incompetence saving us...
91 min
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Bryan Stevenson on why the opposite of poverty ...
89 min