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 online politics gets so extreme so fast
62 min
627
Taking Trump’s corruption seriously
62 min
628
The surprising story of how American politics p...
62 min
629
The most important idea for understanding Ameri...
73 min
630
What economists and politicians get wrong about...
54 min
631
How to disagree better
94 min
632
Jaron Lanier’s case for deleting social media r...
77 min
633
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had about...
65 min
634
The Supreme Court vs. Democracy
64 min
635
Eric Garcetti on the lessons of Los Angeles
60 min
636
What Ellen Pao saw coming
51 min
637
The Green Pill
57 min
638
How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’...
71 min
639
Political power and the racial wealth gap
77 min
640
Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American comp...
84 min
641
A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
79 min
642
Optimism about America
78 min
643
The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter refl...
55 min
644
The age of "mega-identity" politics
74 min
645
Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
110 min
646
Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained...
57 min
647
Is modern society making us depressed?
87 min
648
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min
649
The Sam Harris Debate
128 min
650
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and...
46 min