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