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
Neil deGrasse Tyson gets political
America's personal astrophysicist takes on our most vexing societal problems. But can science really make political struggles disappear?
53 min
252
Introducing The Gray Area
Embrace uncertainty
1 min
253
Best of: Why America's obsession with rights is...
54 min
254
A GOP insider on why the party went Trump
56 min
255
How do we fix the harm we cause?
45 min
256
A new philosophy of love
55 min
257
The politics of 'Yellowstone'
25 min
258
How society sexualizes us
51 min
259
The Parent Trap
How society is failing parents and children
55 min
260
40 Acres: Reaching reconciliation
28 min
261
40 Acres: The old Jim Crow
43 min
262
40 Acres: $14 trillion and no mules
44 min
263
40 Acres: The original promise
49 min
264
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
265
Even Better: Don't call it a budget
45 min
266
The quest for authenticity
Better living through the existentialism of Simone de Beauvoir
46 min
267
Even Better: Setting your boundaries
43 min
268
Your gut instinct is usually wrong
A data scientist on how to make decisions
49 min
269
Even Better: Workplace equality 2.0
51 min
270
Why we're still postmodern (whatever that means)
53 min
271
Even Better: Activism when you don't know where...
47 min
272
The Supreme Court's power grab
60 min
273
How middlemen took over the economy
60 min
274
The necessity — and danger — of free speech
Free speech is essential for democracy. It may also be democracy's downfall.
50 min
275
Hacking coral sex to save the reefs
49 min