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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Novelist Lauren Groff on the other Matrix
42 min
277
Are we living in a simulation?
Philosopher David Chalmers on the question: what is reality, anyway?
63 min
278
Rep. Jamie Raskin on living through the unthink...
52 min
279
Best of: Why fascism in America isn't going away
44 min
280
Best of: Clint Smith III on confronting the leg...
56 min
281
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
282
Chris Bosh on winning (and losing everything)
53 min
283
The cult of toughness
61 min
284
Is ethical investing a scam?
52 min
285
The good life is painful
49 min
286
The father of environmental justice
45 min
287
Jill Lepore on Elon Musk's imaginary world
57 min
288
E.O. Wilson's plan to save the world
51 min
289
Workers of the world, stay home!
57 min
290
How progressives get back in the game
57 min
291
The highs and lows of the "creator economy"
44 min
292
Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now
55 min
293
The stories soul food tells
45 min
294
The paradox of American freedom
51 min
295
Nonbinary parenthood
55 min
296
John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist
61 min
297
The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care
57 min
298
How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation p...
52 min
299
Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom
How a former sharecropper disrupted American politics
54 min
300
What the internet took from us
53 min