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