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
626
Molly Ball on Nancy Pelosi’s future and Paul Ry...
59 min
627
Whitney Phillips explains how Trump controls th...
106 min
628
Ask Ezra Anything
92 min
629
Presidents in crisis with Slow Burn’s Leon Neyfakh
80 min
630
Sandy Darity has a plan to close the wealth gap
47 min
631
How identity politics elected Donald Trump
94 min
632
Rep. Mark Sanford on losing the Republican Part...
60 min
633
Doris Kearns Goodwin (live!) on how great presi...
79 min
634
What Nate Silver's learned about forecasting el...
75 min
635
Jay Rosen is pessimistic about the media. So am I.
78 min
636
Why Bill Gates is worried
56 min
637
Reihan Salam makes the case against open borders
86 min
638
Jose Antonio Vargas on living undocumented in T...
84 min
639
Rebecca Traister: Women's rage is transforming ...
67 min
640
Patrick Deneen says liberalism has failed. Is h...
56 min
641
Francis Fukuyama’s case against identity politics
88 min
642
Carol Anderson on the myth of American democracy
52 min
643
Martha C. Nussbaum on how fear deforms our poli...
54 min
644
David French on “The Great White Culture War"
89 min
645
Your attention is being hijacked. Chris Bailey ...
62 min
646
Anand Giridharadas on the elite charade of chan...
90 min
647
I build a world with fantasy master N.K. Jemisin
79 min
648
Reup: Zephyr Teachout vs. Corruption
89 min
649
Is our economy totally screwed? Andrew Yang and...
68 min
650
Chef Marcus Samuelsson on immigration, creativi...
69 min