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