

The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Vox
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.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on The Gray Area with Sean Illing podcast:

#1 Mentioned in 181 episodes
How to Change
The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

#2 Mentioned in 16 episodes
Why We're Polarized

#3 Mentioned in 7 episodes
The Paradox of Democracy
Free Speech, Open Media, and Perilous Persuasion

#4 Mentioned in 7 episodes
The Brothers Karamazov

#5 Mentioned in 6 episodes
Evicted

#6 Mentioned in 6 episodes
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

#7 Mentioned in 5 episodes
The Conservative Sensibility

#8 Mentioned in 5 episodes
How to Do Nothing

#9 Mentioned in 5 episodes
White Fragility
Why It's so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

#10 Mentioned in 5 episodes
The Myth of Sisyphus

#11 Mentioned in 5 episodes
Understanding media
The Extensions of Man

#12 Mentioned in 5 episodes
Animal liberation

#13 Mentioned in 4 episodes
Black Reconstruction in America
An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860–1880

#14 Mentioned in 4 episodes
Black reconstruction

#15 Mentioned in 4 episodes
How to Be an Antiracist

#16 Mentioned in 4 episodes
Nicomachean Ethics

#17 Mentioned in 4 episodes
Just Mercy
A Story of Justice and Redemption

#18 Mentioned in 4 episodes
The Uninhabitable Earth
Life After Warming

#19 Mentioned in 4 episodes
Moneyball
The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

#20 Mentioned in 4 episodes
How to Change Your Mind
What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence