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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Why politics needs more conflict, not less
72 min
702
Why the Weinstein scandal gives Tig Notaro hope...
41 min
703
What happens when human beings take control of ...
61 min
704
Ta-Nehisi Coates is not here to comfort you
67 min
705
How the Republican Party created Donald Trump
105 min
706
Reihan Salam wants to remake the Republican Par...
76 min
707
David Remnick on journalism in the Trump era an...
82 min
708
What Hillary Clinton really thinks
54 min
709
Dan Rather thought he'd seen it all. But then c...
65 min
710
From 4Chan to Charlottesville: where the alt-ri...
83 min
711
Why prosecutors, not cops, are the keys to crim...
73 min
712
Chris Hayes on whether Trump should be removed ...
64 min
713
Sen. Michael Bennet on why this is a dismal, so...
75 min
714
What’s scary isn’t Trump’s illiberalism but Ame...
62 min
715
Julia Galef on how to argue better and change y...
88 min
716
Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia, the first psychologist t...
65 min
717
Eddie Izzard on World War I, cake or death, and...
65 min
718
Avik Roy and Ezra debate the Senate GOP's healt...
83 min
719
danah boyd on why fake news is so easy to believe
84 min
720
Al Franken on learning to be a politician
52 min
721
Zephyr Teachout on suing Trump, fighting corrup...
89 min
722
Masha Gessen offers a plausible Trump-Russia th...
63 min
723
Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism
63 min
724
Yascha Mounk: Is Trump’s incompetence saving us...
91 min
725
Bryan Stevenson on why the opposite of poverty ...
89 min