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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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
277
Chris Bosh on winning (and losing everything)
53 min
278
The cult of toughness
61 min
279
Is ethical investing a scam?
52 min
280
The good life is painful
49 min
281
The father of environmental justice
45 min
282
Jill Lepore on Elon Musk's imaginary world
57 min
283
E.O. Wilson's plan to save the world
51 min
284
Workers of the world, stay home!
57 min
285
How progressives get back in the game
57 min
286
The highs and lows of the "creator economy"
44 min
287
Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now
55 min
288
The stories soul food tells
45 min
289
The paradox of American freedom
51 min
290
Nonbinary parenthood
55 min
291
John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist
61 min
292
The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care
57 min
293
How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation p...
52 min
294
Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom
How a former sharecropper disrupted American politics
54 min
295
What the internet took from us
53 min
296
Trapped inside with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi
43 min
297
Bryan Stevenson on the legacy of enslavement
57 min
298
What's your status?
51 min
299
Is there a hack for enlightenment?
59 min
300
Fighting a world on fire with fire
56 min