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