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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Why are we so worried about Satan?
58 min
302
How to be wrong less often
48 min
303
The complicated history of wildlife conservation
What can the past tell us about the future of fighting extinction?
65 min
304
How to replace everything in the industrialized...
58 min
305
Patricia Lockwood's big, beautiful internet brain
51 min
306
Who is the real George Soros?
53 min
307
Introducing Unexplainable
A new podcast from Vox about everything we don’t know.
26 min
308
The border, explained by someone who knows it i...
51 min
309
"Wintering," wisdom, and weathering life's dark...
62 min
310
Reframing America's race problem
49 min
311
Who owns the Western?
45 min
312
A Watchmen writer on race, TV, and tech giants
52 min
313
Uncovering the history of psychedelics in Chris...
48 min
314
Biden's immigration architect on racism, reform...
58 min
315
The Capitol Siege and American Revolution
41 min
316
Why fascism in Post-Trump America isn't going away
Vox's Sean Illing and Yale professor Jason Stanley discuss why American democracy provides such fertile soil for fascism
40 min
317
The Joe Biden experience
Ezra Klein and Evan Osnos discuss our new president
61 min
318
What it means to be a "good" rich person
Exploring the anxieties of wealthy people and their desire to be seen as "middle class."
46 min
319
Peter Kafka and Kevin Roose on big tech's power...
26 min
320
Sam Sanders and Olivia Nuzzi on President Trump...
41 min
321
Best of: We don’t just feel emotions. We make t...
A mind-blowing conversation with Lisa Feldman Barrett on how emotion is made
90 min
322
Best of: Ending the age of animal cruelty, with...
75 min
323
Best of: The moral philosophy of The Good Place
98 min
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Best of: Michael Lewis reads my mind
101 min
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Best of: Tracy K. Smith changed how I read poetry
85 min