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
276
The stories soul food tells
45 min
277
The paradox of American freedom
51 min
278
Nonbinary parenthood
55 min
279
John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist
61 min
280
The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care
57 min
281
How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation p...
52 min
282
Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom
How a former sharecropper disrupted American politics
54 min
283
What the internet took from us
53 min
284
Trapped inside with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi
43 min
285
Bryan Stevenson on the legacy of enslavement
57 min
286
What's your status?
51 min
287
Is there a hack for enlightenment?
59 min
288
Fighting a world on fire with fire
56 min
289
Revolutionary Love
51 min
290
How to make meaning out of suffering
52 min
291
Ken Burns's latest on The Greatest
62 min
292
The road from 9/11 to Donald Trump
62 min
293
Rep. Pramila Jayapal on immigrants and America ...
45 min
294
Why America's obsession with rights is wrong
52 min
295
The news is by — and for — rich, white liberals
57 min
296
Clint Smith III on confronting the legacy of sl...
55 min
297
Was the cruelty the point?
55 min
298
How seashells shaped the world — and predict ou...
52 min
299
Bill Maher on free speech, comedy, and his haters
45 min
300
Robert Reich wants you to take on the system
48 min