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 Buddhism got right about the human brain
75 min
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Rebecca Traister on #MeToo, female rage, and An...
86 min
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Ai-jen Poo: the future of work isn’t robots. It...
61 min
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Evan Osnos on the North Korea crisis, Trump’s m...
82 min
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Why politics needs more conflict, not less
72 min
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Why the Weinstein scandal gives Tig Notaro hope...
41 min
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What happens when human beings take control of ...
61 min
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is not here to comfort you
67 min
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How the Republican Party created Donald Trump
105 min
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Reihan Salam wants to remake the Republican Par...
76 min
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David Remnick on journalism in the Trump era an...
82 min
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What Hillary Clinton really thinks
54 min
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Dan Rather thought he'd seen it all. But then c...
65 min
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From 4Chan to Charlottesville: where the alt-ri...
83 min
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Why prosecutors, not cops, are the keys to crim...
73 min
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Chris Hayes on whether Trump should be removed ...
64 min
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Sen. Michael Bennet on why this is a dismal, so...
75 min
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What’s scary isn’t Trump’s illiberalism but Ame...
62 min
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Julia Galef on how to argue better and change y...
88 min
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Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia, the first psychologist t...
65 min
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Eddie Izzard on World War I, cake or death, and...
65 min
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Avik Roy and Ezra debate the Senate GOP's healt...
83 min
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danah boyd on why fake news is so easy to believe
84 min
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Al Franken on learning to be a politician
52 min
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Zephyr Teachout on suing Trump, fighting corrup...
89 min