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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Taking Trump’s corruption seriously
62 min
652
The surprising story of how American politics p...
62 min
653
The most important idea for understanding Ameri...
73 min
654
What economists and politicians get wrong about...
54 min
655
How to disagree better
94 min
656
Jaron Lanier’s case for deleting social media r...
77 min
657
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had about...
65 min
658
The Supreme Court vs. Democracy
64 min
659
Eric Garcetti on the lessons of Los Angeles
60 min
660
What Ellen Pao saw coming
51 min
661
The Green Pill
57 min
662
How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’...
71 min
663
Political power and the racial wealth gap
77 min
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Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American comp...
84 min
665
A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
79 min
666
Optimism about America
78 min
667
The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter refl...
55 min
668
The age of "mega-identity" politics
74 min
669
Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
110 min
670
Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained...
57 min
671
Is modern society making us depressed?
87 min
672
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min
673
The Sam Harris Debate
128 min
674
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and...
46 min
675
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Tru...
80 min