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
251
Chris Bosh on winning (and losing everything)
53 min
252
The cult of toughness
61 min
253
Is ethical investing a scam?
52 min
254
The good life is painful
49 min
255
The father of environmental justice
45 min
256
Jill Lepore on Elon Musk's imaginary world
57 min
257
E.O. Wilson's plan to save the world
51 min
258
Workers of the world, stay home!
57 min
259
How progressives get back in the game
57 min
260
The highs and lows of the "creator economy"
44 min
261
Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now
55 min
262
The stories soul food tells
45 min
263
The paradox of American freedom
51 min
264
Nonbinary parenthood
55 min
265
John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist
61 min
266
The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care
57 min
267
How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation p...
52 min
268
Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom
How a former sharecropper disrupted American politics
54 min
269
What the internet took from us
53 min
270
Trapped inside with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi
43 min
271
Bryan Stevenson on the legacy of enslavement
57 min
272
What's your status?
51 min
273
Is there a hack for enlightenment?
59 min
274
Fighting a world on fire with fire
56 min
275
Revolutionary Love
51 min