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 Green Pill
57 min
627
How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’...
71 min
628
Political power and the racial wealth gap
77 min
629
Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American comp...
84 min
630
A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
79 min
631
Optimism about America
78 min
632
The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter refl...
55 min
633
The age of "mega-identity" politics
74 min
634
Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
110 min
635
Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained...
57 min
636
Is modern society making us depressed?
87 min
637
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min
638
The Sam Harris Debate
128 min
639
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and...
46 min
640
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Tru...
80 min
641
Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate chang...
50 min
642
A better conversation on guns
49 min
643
This isn’t Joe Kennedy’s grandfather’s Democrat...
61 min
644
Amy Chua on how tribalism is tearing America apart
59 min
645
How technology brings out the worst in us, with...
69 min
646
Steven Pinker: enlightenment values made this t...
65 min
647
Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara
71 min
648
How Democracies Die
72 min
649
How to oppose Trump without becoming more like him
69 min
650
You will love this conversation with Jaron Lani...
95 min