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 highs and lows of the "creator economy"
44 min
302
Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now
55 min
303
The stories soul food tells
45 min
304
The paradox of American freedom
51 min
305
Nonbinary parenthood
55 min
306
John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist
61 min
307
The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care
57 min
308
How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation p...
52 min
309
Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom
How a former sharecropper disrupted American politics
54 min
310
What the internet took from us
53 min
311
Trapped inside with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi
43 min
312
Bryan Stevenson on the legacy of enslavement
57 min
313
What's your status?
51 min
314
Is there a hack for enlightenment?
59 min
315
Fighting a world on fire with fire
56 min
316
Revolutionary Love
51 min
317
How to make meaning out of suffering
52 min
318
Ken Burns's latest on The Greatest
62 min
319
The road from 9/11 to Donald Trump
62 min
320
Rep. Pramila Jayapal on immigrants and America ...
45 min
321
Why America's obsession with rights is wrong
52 min
322
The news is by — and for — rich, white liberals
57 min
323
Clint Smith III on confronting the legacy of sl...
55 min
324
Was the cruelty the point?
55 min
325
How seashells shaped the world — and predict ou...
52 min