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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Novelist Lauren Groff on the other Matrix
42 min
252
Are we living in a simulation?
Philosopher David Chalmers on the question: what is reality, anyway?
63 min
253
Rep. Jamie Raskin on living through the unthink...
52 min
254
Best of: Why fascism in America isn't going away
44 min
255
Best of: Clint Smith III on confronting the leg...
56 min
256
Best of: We need to talk about UFOs. Seriously.
Professor Alex Wendt tells Sean Illing why he thinks the aliens might already be here
57 min
257
Chris Bosh on winning (and losing everything)
53 min
258
The cult of toughness
61 min
259
Is ethical investing a scam?
52 min
260
The good life is painful
49 min
261
The father of environmental justice
45 min
262
Jill Lepore on Elon Musk's imaginary world
57 min
263
E.O. Wilson's plan to save the world
51 min
264
Workers of the world, stay home!
57 min
265
How progressives get back in the game
57 min
266
The highs and lows of the "creator economy"
44 min
267
Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now
55 min
268
The stories soul food tells
45 min
269
The paradox of American freedom
51 min
270
Nonbinary parenthood
55 min
271
John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist
61 min
272
The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care
57 min
273
How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation p...
52 min
274
Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom
How a former sharecropper disrupted American politics
54 min
275
What the internet took from us
53 min