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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Masha Gessen offers a plausible Trump-Russia th...
63 min
702
Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism
63 min
703
Yascha Mounk: Is Trump’s incompetence saving us...
91 min
704
Bryan Stevenson on why the opposite of poverty ...
89 min
705
Death, Sex, and Money’s Anna Sale on bringing e...
50 min
706
Cory Booker returns, live, to talk trust, Trump...
67 min
707
VC Bill Gurley on transforming health care
69 min
708
Elizabeth Warren on what Barack Obama got wrong
43 min
709
Cal Newport on doing Deep Work and escaping soc...
80 min
710
G. Willow Wilson on religion, comics, and moder...
72 min
711
Chris Hayes on the crisis of elites and the pol...
99 min
712
Tyler Cowen explains it all
91 min
713
Molly Ball on whether facts matter in politics
73 min
714
Denis McDonough on how to run the White House
78 min
715
Cecile Richards on Planned Parenthood, labor or...
72 min
716
Tim Ferriss on suffering, psychedelics, and spi...
108 min
717
Yuval Harari, author of “Sapiens,” on AI, relig...
67 min
718
Elizabeth Drew covered Watergate. Here's what s...
68 min
719
Avik Roy on why conservatives need to embrace d...
88 min
720
Kara Swisher gives a master class on reporting ...
95 min
721
David Miliband explains the global refugee crisis
46 min
722
Jennifer Lawless on why you — yes, you — should...
61 min
723
JD Vance: the reluctant interpreter of Trumpism
100 min
724
Keith Ellison: The Democratic National Committe...
60 min
725
Elizabeth Kolbert: We have locked in centuries ...
78 min