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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David Miliband explains the global refugee crisis
46 min
702
Jennifer Lawless on why you — yes, you — should...
61 min
703
JD Vance: the reluctant interpreter of Trumpism
100 min
704
Keith Ellison: The Democratic National Committe...
60 min
705
Elizabeth Kolbert: We have locked in centuries ...
78 min
706
Sarah Kliff and Ezra Interview Obama About Obam...
72 min
707
You Ask, Ezra Answers
93 min
708
Evelyn Farkas explains the crisis in Syria and ...
77 min
709
Tim Wu's interesting, unusual, fascinating life
89 min
710
Ta-Nehisi Coates: "There’s not gonna be a happy...
100 min
711
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison on management, rati...
87 min
712
Award-winning chef José Andrés on cooking, crea...
86 min
713
Heather McGhee returns to talk Trump, race, and...
59 min
714
Ron Brownstein: Clinton didn’t lose because of ...
63 min
715
David Frum on the 2016 election, and the long d...
92 min
716
Deborah Tannen on gendered speech, Hillary Clin...
89 min
717
Joseph Stiglitz on broken markets, bad trade de...
66 min
718
Let's talk about Hillary Clinton's policy ideas...
70 min
719
Francis Fukuyama on whether America's democracy...
67 min
720
Tyler Cowen interviews Ezra Klein about politic...
73 min
721
The best conversation I’ve had about the electi...
68 min
722
HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell on runnin...
43 min
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Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is...
96 min
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Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump ...
55 min
725
Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning...
91 min