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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Molly Ball on whether facts matter in politics
73 min
702
Denis McDonough on how to run the White House
78 min
703
Cecile Richards on Planned Parenthood, labor or...
72 min
704
Tim Ferriss on suffering, psychedelics, and spi...
108 min
705
Yuval Harari, author of “Sapiens,” on AI, relig...
67 min
706
Elizabeth Drew covered Watergate. Here's what s...
68 min
707
Avik Roy on why conservatives need to embrace d...
88 min
708
Kara Swisher gives a master class on reporting ...
95 min
709
David Miliband explains the global refugee crisis
46 min
710
Jennifer Lawless on why you — yes, you — should...
61 min
711
JD Vance: the reluctant interpreter of Trumpism
100 min
712
Keith Ellison: The Democratic National Committe...
60 min
713
Elizabeth Kolbert: We have locked in centuries ...
78 min
714
Sarah Kliff and Ezra Interview Obama About Obam...
72 min
715
You Ask, Ezra Answers
93 min
716
Evelyn Farkas explains the crisis in Syria and ...
77 min
717
Tim Wu's interesting, unusual, fascinating life
89 min
718
Ta-Nehisi Coates: "There’s not gonna be a happy...
100 min
719
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison on management, rati...
87 min
720
Award-winning chef José Andrés on cooking, crea...
86 min
721
Heather McGhee returns to talk Trump, race, and...
59 min
722
Ron Brownstein: Clinton didn’t lose because of ...
63 min
723
David Frum on the 2016 election, and the long d...
92 min
724
Deborah Tannen on gendered speech, Hillary Clin...
89 min
725
Joseph Stiglitz on broken markets, bad trade de...
66 min