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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Are we living in a simulation?
Philosopher David Chalmers on the question: what is reality, anyway?
63 min
302
Rep. Jamie Raskin on living through the unthink...
52 min
303
Best of: Why fascism in America isn't going away
44 min
304
Best of: Clint Smith III on confronting the leg...
56 min
305
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
306
Chris Bosh on winning (and losing everything)
53 min
307
The cult of toughness
61 min
308
Is ethical investing a scam?
52 min
309
The good life is painful
49 min
310
The father of environmental justice
45 min
311
Jill Lepore on Elon Musk's imaginary world
57 min
312
E.O. Wilson's plan to save the world
51 min
313
Workers of the world, stay home!
57 min
314
How progressives get back in the game
57 min
315
The highs and lows of the "creator economy"
44 min
316
Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now
55 min
317
The stories soul food tells
45 min
318
The paradox of American freedom
51 min
319
Nonbinary parenthood
55 min
320
John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist
61 min
321
The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care
57 min
322
How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation p...
52 min
323
Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom
How a former sharecropper disrupted American politics
54 min
324
What the internet took from us
53 min
325
Trapped inside with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi
43 min