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