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