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