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
726
Masha Gessen offers a plausible Trump-Russia th...
63 min
727
Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism
63 min
728
Yascha Mounk: Is Trump’s incompetence saving us...
91 min
729
Bryan Stevenson on why the opposite of poverty ...
89 min
730
Death, Sex, and Money’s Anna Sale on bringing e...
50 min
731
Cory Booker returns, live, to talk trust, Trump...
67 min
732
VC Bill Gurley on transforming health care
69 min
733
Elizabeth Warren on what Barack Obama got wrong
43 min
734
Cal Newport on doing Deep Work and escaping soc...
80 min
735
G. Willow Wilson on religion, comics, and moder...
72 min
736
Chris Hayes on the crisis of elites and the pol...
99 min
737
Tyler Cowen explains it all
91 min
738
Molly Ball on whether facts matter in politics
73 min
739
Denis McDonough on how to run the White House
78 min
740
Cecile Richards on Planned Parenthood, labor or...
72 min
741
Tim Ferriss on suffering, psychedelics, and spi...
108 min
742
Yuval Harari, author of “Sapiens,” on AI, relig...
67 min
743
Elizabeth Drew covered Watergate. Here's what s...
68 min
744
Avik Roy on why conservatives need to embrace d...
88 min
745
Kara Swisher gives a master class on reporting ...
95 min
746
David Miliband explains the global refugee crisis
46 min
747
Jennifer Lawless on why you — yes, you — should...
61 min
748
JD Vance: the reluctant interpreter of Trumpism
100 min
749
Keith Ellison: The Democratic National Committe...
60 min
750
Elizabeth Kolbert: We have locked in centuries ...
78 min