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
The father of environmental justice
45 min
252
Jill Lepore on Elon Musk's imaginary world
57 min
253
E.O. Wilson's plan to save the world
51 min
254
Workers of the world, stay home!
57 min
255
How progressives get back in the game
57 min
256
The highs and lows of the "creator economy"
44 min
257
Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now
55 min
258
The stories soul food tells
45 min
259
The paradox of American freedom
51 min
260
Nonbinary parenthood
55 min
261
John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist
61 min
262
The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care
57 min
263
How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation p...
52 min
264
Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom
How a former sharecropper disrupted American politics
54 min
265
What the internet took from us
53 min
266
Trapped inside with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi
43 min
267
Bryan Stevenson on the legacy of enslavement
57 min
268
What's your status?
51 min
269
Is there a hack for enlightenment?
59 min
270
Fighting a world on fire with fire
56 min
271
Revolutionary Love
51 min
272
How to make meaning out of suffering
52 min
273
Ken Burns's latest on The Greatest
62 min
274
The road from 9/11 to Donald Trump
62 min
275
Rep. Pramila Jayapal on immigrants and America ...
45 min