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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How progressives get back in the game
57 min
277
The highs and lows of the "creator economy"
44 min
278
Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now
55 min
279
The stories soul food tells
45 min
280
The paradox of American freedom
51 min
281
Nonbinary parenthood
55 min
282
John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist
61 min
283
The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care
57 min
284
How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation p...
52 min
285
Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom
How a former sharecropper disrupted American politics
54 min
286
What the internet took from us
53 min
287
Trapped inside with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi
43 min
288
Bryan Stevenson on the legacy of enslavement
57 min
289
What's your status?
51 min
290
Is there a hack for enlightenment?
59 min
291
Fighting a world on fire with fire
56 min
292
Revolutionary Love
51 min
293
How to make meaning out of suffering
52 min
294
Ken Burns's latest on The Greatest
62 min
295
The road from 9/11 to Donald Trump
62 min
296
Rep. Pramila Jayapal on immigrants and America ...
45 min
297
Why America's obsession with rights is wrong
52 min
298
The news is by — and for — rich, white liberals
57 min
299
Clint Smith III on confronting the legacy of sl...
55 min
300
Was the cruelty the point?
55 min