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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Imagine a future with no police
59 min
327
Novelist Lauren Groff on the other Matrix
42 min
328
Are we living in a simulation?
Philosopher David Chalmers on the question: what is reality, anyway?
63 min
329
Rep. Jamie Raskin on living through the unthink...
52 min
330
Best of: Why fascism in America isn't going away
44 min
331
Best of: Clint Smith III on confronting the leg...
56 min
332
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
333
Chris Bosh on winning (and losing everything)
53 min
334
The cult of toughness
61 min
335
Is ethical investing a scam?
52 min
336
The good life is painful
49 min
337
The father of environmental justice
45 min
338
Jill Lepore on Elon Musk's imaginary world
57 min
339
E.O. Wilson's plan to save the world
51 min
340
Workers of the world, stay home!
57 min
341
How progressives get back in the game
57 min
342
The highs and lows of the "creator economy"
44 min
343
Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now
55 min
344
The stories soul food tells
45 min
345
The paradox of American freedom
51 min
346
Nonbinary parenthood
55 min
347
John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist
61 min
348
The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care
57 min
349
How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation p...
52 min
350
Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom
How a former sharecropper disrupted American politics
54 min