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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Steven Pinker: enlightenment values made this t...
65 min
627
Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara
71 min
628
How Democracies Die
72 min
629
How to oppose Trump without becoming more like him
69 min
630
You will love this conversation with Jaron Lani...
95 min
631
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had on Tr...
73 min
632
Pod Save America’s Jon Favreau on Trump’s first...
58 min
633
The inside story of Doug Jones’s win in Alabama
59 min
634
What life is like in North Korea
46 min
635
"An orgy of serious policy discussion" with Pau...
93 min
636
The case for impeachment
66 min
637
What Buddhism got right about the human brain
75 min
638
Rebecca Traister on #MeToo, female rage, and An...
86 min
639
Ai-jen Poo: the future of work isn’t robots. It...
61 min
640
Evan Osnos on the North Korea crisis, Trump’s m...
82 min
641
Why politics needs more conflict, not less
72 min
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Why the Weinstein scandal gives Tig Notaro hope...
41 min
643
What happens when human beings take control of ...
61 min
644
Ta-Nehisi Coates is not here to comfort you
67 min
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How the Republican Party created Donald Trump
105 min
646
Reihan Salam wants to remake the Republican Par...
76 min
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David Remnick on journalism in the Trump era an...
82 min
648
What Hillary Clinton really thinks
54 min
649
Dan Rather thought he'd seen it all. But then c...
65 min
650
From 4Chan to Charlottesville: where the alt-ri...
83 min