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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40 Acres: $14 trillion and no mules
44 min
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40 Acres: The original promise
49 min
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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
254
Even Better: Don't call it a budget
45 min
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The quest for authenticity
Better living through the existentialism of Simone de Beauvoir
46 min
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Even Better: Setting your boundaries
43 min
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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
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Why we're still postmodern (whatever that means)
53 min
260
Even Better: Activism when you don't know where...
47 min
261
The Supreme Court's power grab
60 min
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How middlemen took over the economy
60 min
263
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
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Does China control Hollywood?
58 min
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Steve Bannon is still at war
45 min
268
The Fortress of Solitude saw it all coming
Constance Grady talks with author Jonathan Lethem about his prescient 2003 novel
34 min
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The Philosophers: Stoic revival
59 min
270
Station Eleven's creator on the end of the world
Showrunner Patrick Somerville on why hope is necessary for survival
47 min
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The racist origins of fat phobia
49 min
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The fight for Ukraine — and democracy
49 min
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The war on trans people
49 min
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Michael Ian Black on being a better man
50 min
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Carmen Maria Machado's haunted feminine
36 min