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
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Hacking coral sex to save the reefs
49 min
227
The price of keeping secrets
47 min
228
Does China control Hollywood?
58 min
229
Steve Bannon is still at war
45 min
230
The Fortress of Solitude saw it all coming
Constance Grady talks with author Jonathan Lethem about his prescient 2003 novel
34 min
231
The Philosophers: Stoic revival
59 min
232
Station Eleven's creator on the end of the world
Showrunner Patrick Somerville on why hope is necessary for survival
47 min
233
The racist origins of fat phobia
49 min
234
The fight for Ukraine — and democracy
49 min
235
The war on trans people
49 min
236
Michael Ian Black on being a better man
50 min
237
Carmen Maria Machado's haunted feminine
36 min
238
The rise and fall of America's monuments
45 min
239
The Philosophers: America's philosophy, with Co...
55 min
240
Why accidents aren't accidental
47 min
241
Rethinking the "end of history"
56 min
242
Anita Hill finally gets even
55 min
243
Elites have captured identity politics
52 min
244
The moral dangers of dirty work
54 min
245
Did the sexual revolution go wrong?
53 min
246
Who decides how to conserve nature?
55 min
247
The Philosophers: Loneliness and totalitarianism
58 min
248
The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 4: The fut...
59 min
249
Michael Lewis on why Americans distrust experts
52 min
250
The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 3: The nuc...
51 min