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
1
Is America a gerontocracy?
43 min
2
Inside the secret race to build artificial inte...
40 min
3
What makes a life good enough?
40 min
4
Can prediction markets be good for society?
44 min
5
Our gender divide
43 min
6
The death row assembly line
55 min
7
Is it bad to want to be rich?
47 min
8
Why does killing a bug feel wrong?
31 min
9
How trauma became a status symbol
39 min
10
Inside the world of cash advance apps
41 min
11
This is how you rule the world
55 min
12
Is starting a family becoming impossible?
54 min
13
The millennial midlife crisis
46 min
14
How to be less neurotic
36 min
15
Your body wasn’t built for a desk
40 min
16
Why we want to believe in aliens
47 min
17
Straight dating isn’t broken
39 min
18
Kidneys for sale
45 min
19
How memory changes you
55 min
20
Freud was right about one thing
55 min
21
Why straight dating feels bleak
54 min
22
We’re postliterate
48 min
23
What does a parent owe their child?
24 min
24
The vanishing pleasures of daily life
44 min
25
How Google broke the internet
37 min