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 most important idea for understanding Ameri...
73 min
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What economists and politicians get wrong about...
54 min
653
How to disagree better
94 min
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Jaron Lanier’s case for deleting social media r...
77 min
655
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had about...
65 min
656
The Supreme Court vs. Democracy
64 min
657
Eric Garcetti on the lessons of Los Angeles
60 min
658
What Ellen Pao saw coming
51 min
659
The Green Pill
57 min
660
How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’...
71 min
661
Political power and the racial wealth gap
77 min
662
Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American comp...
84 min
663
A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
79 min
664
Optimism about America
78 min
665
The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter refl...
55 min
666
The age of "mega-identity" politics
74 min
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Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
110 min
668
Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained...
57 min
669
Is modern society making us depressed?
87 min
670
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min
671
The Sam Harris Debate
128 min
672
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and...
46 min
673
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Tru...
80 min
674
Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate chang...
50 min
675
A better conversation on guns
49 min