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