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
226
A GOP insider on why the party went Trump
56 min
227
How do we fix the harm we cause?
45 min
228
A new philosophy of love
55 min
229
The politics of 'Yellowstone'
25 min
230
How society sexualizes us
51 min
231
The Parent Trap
How society is failing parents and children
55 min
232
40 Acres: Reaching reconciliation
28 min
233
40 Acres: The old Jim Crow
43 min
234
40 Acres: $14 trillion and no mules
44 min
235
40 Acres: The original promise
49 min
236
What Clarence Thomas really thinks
And why he's the most misunderstood Supreme Court Justice, according to the author of The Enigma of Clarence Thomas
59 min
237
Even Better: Don't call it a budget
45 min
238
The quest for authenticity
Better living through the existentialism of Simone de Beauvoir
46 min
239
Even Better: Setting your boundaries
43 min
240
Your gut instinct is usually wrong
A data scientist on how to make decisions
49 min
241
Even Better: Workplace equality 2.0
51 min
242
Why we're still postmodern (whatever that means)
53 min
243
Even Better: Activism when you don't know where...
47 min
244
The Supreme Court's power grab
60 min
245
How middlemen took over the economy
60 min
246
The necessity — and danger — of free speech
Free speech is essential for democracy. It may also be democracy's downfall.
50 min
247
Hacking coral sex to save the reefs
49 min
248
The price of keeping secrets
47 min
249
Does China control Hollywood?
58 min
250
Steve Bannon is still at war
45 min