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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The good life is painful
49 min
302
The father of environmental justice
45 min
303
Jill Lepore on Elon Musk's imaginary world
57 min
304
E.O. Wilson's plan to save the world
51 min
305
Workers of the world, stay home!
57 min
306
How progressives get back in the game
57 min
307
The highs and lows of the "creator economy"
44 min
308
Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now
55 min
309
The stories soul food tells
45 min
310
The paradox of American freedom
51 min
311
Nonbinary parenthood
55 min
312
John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist
61 min
313
The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care
57 min
314
How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation p...
52 min
315
Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom
How a former sharecropper disrupted American politics
54 min
316
What the internet took from us
53 min
317
Trapped inside with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi
43 min
318
Bryan Stevenson on the legacy of enslavement
57 min
319
What's your status?
51 min
320
Is there a hack for enlightenment?
59 min
321
Fighting a world on fire with fire
56 min
322
Revolutionary Love
51 min
323
How to make meaning out of suffering
52 min
324
Ken Burns's latest on The Greatest
62 min
325
The road from 9/11 to Donald Trump
62 min