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
701
Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara
71 min
702
How Democracies Die
72 min
703
How to oppose Trump without becoming more like him
69 min
704
You will love this conversation with Jaron Lani...
95 min
705
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had on Tr...
73 min
706
Pod Save America’s Jon Favreau on Trump’s first...
58 min
707
The inside story of Doug Jones’s win in Alabama
59 min
708
What life is like in North Korea
46 min
709
"An orgy of serious policy discussion" with Pau...
93 min
710
The case for impeachment
66 min
711
What Buddhism got right about the human brain
75 min
712
Rebecca Traister on #MeToo, female rage, and An...
86 min
713
Ai-jen Poo: the future of work isn’t robots. It...
61 min
714
Evan Osnos on the North Korea crisis, Trump’s m...
82 min
715
Why politics needs more conflict, not less
72 min
716
Why the Weinstein scandal gives Tig Notaro hope...
41 min
717
What happens when human beings take control of ...
61 min
718
Ta-Nehisi Coates is not here to comfort you
67 min
719
How the Republican Party created Donald Trump
105 min
720
Reihan Salam wants to remake the Republican Par...
76 min
721
David Remnick on journalism in the Trump era an...
82 min
722
What Hillary Clinton really thinks
54 min
723
Dan Rather thought he'd seen it all. But then c...
65 min
724
From 4Chan to Charlottesville: where the alt-ri...
83 min
725
Why prosecutors, not cops, are the keys to crim...
73 min