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.
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A GOP insider on why the party went Trump
56 min
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How do we fix the harm we cause?
45 min
253
A new philosophy of love
55 min
254
The politics of 'Yellowstone'
25 min
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How society sexualizes us
51 min
256
The Parent Trap
How society is failing parents and children
55 min
257
40 Acres: Reaching reconciliation
28 min
258
40 Acres: The old Jim Crow
43 min
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40 Acres: $14 trillion and no mules
44 min
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40 Acres: The original promise
49 min
261
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
262
Even Better: Don't call it a budget
45 min
263
The quest for authenticity
Better living through the existentialism of Simone de Beauvoir
46 min
264
Even Better: Setting your boundaries
43 min
265
Your gut instinct is usually wrong
A data scientist on how to make decisions
49 min
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Even Better: Workplace equality 2.0
51 min
267
Why we're still postmodern (whatever that means)
53 min
268
Even Better: Activism when you don't know where...
47 min
269
The Supreme Court's power grab
60 min
270
How middlemen took over the economy
60 min
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The necessity — and danger — of free speech
Free speech is essential for democracy. It may also be democracy's downfall.
50 min
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Hacking coral sex to save the reefs
49 min
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The price of keeping secrets
47 min
274
Does China control Hollywood?
58 min
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Steve Bannon is still at war
45 min