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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Jaron Lanier’s case for deleting social media r...
77 min
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The most clarifying conversation I’ve had about...
65 min
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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
655
What Ellen Pao saw coming
51 min
656
The Green Pill
57 min
657
How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’...
71 min
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Political power and the racial wealth gap
77 min
659
Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American comp...
84 min
660
A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
79 min
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Optimism about America
78 min
662
The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter refl...
55 min
663
The age of "mega-identity" politics
74 min
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Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
110 min
665
Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained...
57 min
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Is modern society making us depressed?
87 min
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Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min
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The Sam Harris Debate
128 min
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Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and...
46 min
670
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Tru...
80 min
671
Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate chang...
50 min
672
A better conversation on guns
49 min
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This isn’t Joe Kennedy’s grandfather’s Democrat...
61 min
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Amy Chua on how tribalism is tearing America apart
59 min
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How technology brings out the worst in us, with...
69 min