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 Supreme Court vs. Democracy
64 min
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Eric Garcetti on the lessons of Los Angeles
60 min
653
What Ellen Pao saw coming
51 min
654
The Green Pill
57 min
655
How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’...
71 min
656
Political power and the racial wealth gap
77 min
657
Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American comp...
84 min
658
A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
79 min
659
Optimism about America
78 min
660
The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter refl...
55 min
661
The age of "mega-identity" politics
74 min
662
Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
110 min
663
Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained...
57 min
664
Is modern society making us depressed?
87 min
665
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min
666
The Sam Harris Debate
128 min
667
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and...
46 min
668
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Tru...
80 min
669
Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate chang...
50 min
670
A better conversation on guns
49 min
671
This isn’t Joe Kennedy’s grandfather’s Democrat...
61 min
672
Amy Chua on how tribalism is tearing America apart
59 min
673
How technology brings out the worst in us, with...
69 min
674
Steven Pinker: enlightenment values made this t...
65 min
675
Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara
71 min