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