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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A Yellowjackets creator spills his guts
39 min
302
A scientist's case for "woo-woo"
55 min
303
Imagine a future with no police
59 min
304
Novelist Lauren Groff on the other Matrix
42 min
305
Are we living in a simulation?
Philosopher David Chalmers on the question: what is reality, anyway?
63 min
306
Rep. Jamie Raskin on living through the unthink...
52 min
307
Best of: Why fascism in America isn't going away
44 min
308
Best of: Clint Smith III on confronting the leg...
56 min
309
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
310
Chris Bosh on winning (and losing everything)
53 min
311
The cult of toughness
61 min
312
Is ethical investing a scam?
52 min
313
The good life is painful
49 min
314
The father of environmental justice
45 min
315
Jill Lepore on Elon Musk's imaginary world
57 min
316
E.O. Wilson's plan to save the world
51 min
317
Workers of the world, stay home!
57 min
318
How progressives get back in the game
57 min
319
The highs and lows of the "creator economy"
44 min
320
Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now
55 min
321
The stories soul food tells
45 min
322
The paradox of American freedom
51 min
323
Nonbinary parenthood
55 min
324
John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist
61 min
325
The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care
57 min