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