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
301
The man who proposed reparations in the 1860s
Abe Lincoln's forgotten abolitionist ally
62 min
302
What pandemic recovery should look like
54 min
303
The gift of getting old
52 min
304
Freedom, and what it means to have a body
50 min
305
Why are we so worried about Satan?
58 min
306
How to be wrong less often
48 min
307
The complicated history of wildlife conservation
What can the past tell us about the future of fighting extinction?
65 min
308
How to replace everything in the industrialized...
58 min
309
Patricia Lockwood's big, beautiful internet brain
51 min
310
Who is the real George Soros?
53 min
311
Introducing Unexplainable
A new podcast from Vox about everything we don’t know.
26 min
312
The border, explained by someone who knows it i...
51 min
313
"Wintering," wisdom, and weathering life's dark...
62 min
314
Reframing America's race problem
49 min
315
Who owns the Western?
45 min
316
A Watchmen writer on race, TV, and tech giants
52 min
317
Uncovering the history of psychedelics in Chris...
48 min
318
Biden's immigration architect on racism, reform...
58 min
319
The Capitol Siege and American Revolution
41 min
320
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
321
The Joe Biden experience
Ezra Klein and Evan Osnos discuss our new president
61 min
322
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
323
Peter Kafka and Kevin Roose on big tech's power...
26 min
324
Sam Sanders and Olivia Nuzzi on President Trump...
41 min
325
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