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
Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom
How a former sharecropper disrupted American politics
54 min
277
What the internet took from us
53 min
278
Trapped inside with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi
43 min
279
Bryan Stevenson on the legacy of enslavement
57 min
280
What's your status?
51 min
281
Is there a hack for enlightenment?
59 min
282
Fighting a world on fire with fire
56 min
283
Revolutionary Love
51 min
284
How to make meaning out of suffering
52 min
285
Ken Burns's latest on The Greatest
62 min
286
The road from 9/11 to Donald Trump
62 min
287
Rep. Pramila Jayapal on immigrants and America ...
45 min
288
Why America's obsession with rights is wrong
52 min
289
The news is by — and for — rich, white liberals
57 min
290
Clint Smith III on confronting the legacy of sl...
55 min
291
Was the cruelty the point?
55 min
292
How seashells shaped the world — and predict ou...
52 min
293
Bill Maher on free speech, comedy, and his haters
45 min
294
Robert Reich wants you to take on the system
48 min
295
Marty Baron on the future of news
49 min
296
The death of cool
43 min
297
We need to talk about UFOs. Seriously.
Professor Alex Wendt tells Sean Illing why he thinks the aliens might already be here
57 min
298
Philadelphia's progressive prosecutor
District attorney Larry Krasner talks about his reform agenda, rising gun violence, and how to take on the system
49 min
299
Fareed Zakaria on the fate of democracy
65 min
300
Jane Goodall on the power of hope
The world's foremost expert on chimps wants us to remember we're animals, too
56 min