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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Al Franken on learning to be a politician
52 min
677
Zephyr Teachout on suing Trump, fighting corrup...
89 min
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Masha Gessen offers a plausible Trump-Russia th...
63 min
679
Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism
63 min
680
Yascha Mounk: Is Trump’s incompetence saving us...
91 min
681
Bryan Stevenson on why the opposite of poverty ...
89 min
682
Death, Sex, and Money’s Anna Sale on bringing e...
50 min
683
Cory Booker returns, live, to talk trust, Trump...
67 min
684
VC Bill Gurley on transforming health care
69 min
685
Elizabeth Warren on what Barack Obama got wrong
43 min
686
Cal Newport on doing Deep Work and escaping soc...
80 min
687
G. Willow Wilson on religion, comics, and moder...
72 min
688
Chris Hayes on the crisis of elites and the pol...
99 min
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Tyler Cowen explains it all
91 min
690
Molly Ball on whether facts matter in politics
73 min
691
Denis McDonough on how to run the White House
78 min
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Cecile Richards on Planned Parenthood, labor or...
72 min
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Tim Ferriss on suffering, psychedelics, and spi...
108 min
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Yuval Harari, author of “Sapiens,” on AI, relig...
67 min
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Elizabeth Drew covered Watergate. Here's what s...
68 min
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Avik Roy on why conservatives need to embrace d...
88 min
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Kara Swisher gives a master class on reporting ...
95 min
698
David Miliband explains the global refugee crisis
46 min
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Jennifer Lawless on why you — yes, you — should...
61 min
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JD Vance: the reluctant interpreter of Trumpism
100 min