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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How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’...
71 min
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Political power and the racial wealth gap
77 min
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Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American comp...
84 min
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A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan
79 min
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Optimism about America
78 min
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The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter refl...
55 min
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The age of "mega-identity" politics
74 min
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Is American democracy really in decline? A debate.
110 min
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Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained...
57 min
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Is modern society making us depressed?
87 min
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Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump
91 min
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The Sam Harris Debate
128 min
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Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and...
46 min
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Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Tru...
80 min
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Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate chang...
50 min
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A better conversation on guns
49 min
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This isn’t Joe Kennedy’s grandfather’s Democrat...
61 min
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Amy Chua on how tribalism is tearing America apart
59 min
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How technology brings out the worst in us, with...
69 min
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Steven Pinker: enlightenment values made this t...
65 min
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Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara
71 min
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How Democracies Die
72 min
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How to oppose Trump without becoming more like him
69 min
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You will love this conversation with Jaron Lani...
95 min
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The most clarifying conversation I’ve had on Tr...
73 min