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