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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How progressives get back in the game
57 min
302
The highs and lows of the "creator economy"
44 min
303
Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now
55 min
304
The stories soul food tells
45 min
305
The paradox of American freedom
51 min
306
Nonbinary parenthood
55 min
307
John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist
61 min
308
The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care
57 min
309
How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation p...
52 min
310
Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom
How a former sharecropper disrupted American politics
54 min
311
What the internet took from us
53 min
312
Trapped inside with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi
43 min
313
Bryan Stevenson on the legacy of enslavement
57 min
314
What's your status?
51 min
315
Is there a hack for enlightenment?
59 min
316
Fighting a world on fire with fire
56 min
317
Revolutionary Love
51 min
318
How to make meaning out of suffering
52 min
319
Ken Burns's latest on The Greatest
62 min
320
The road from 9/11 to Donald Trump
62 min
321
Rep. Pramila Jayapal on immigrants and America ...
45 min
322
Why America's obsession with rights is wrong
52 min
323
The news is by — and for — rich, white liberals
57 min
324
Clint Smith III on confronting the legacy of sl...
55 min
325
Was the cruelty the point?
55 min