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