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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The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care
57 min
327
How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation p...
52 min
328
Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom
How a former sharecropper disrupted American politics
54 min
329
What the internet took from us
53 min
330
Trapped inside with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi
43 min
331
Bryan Stevenson on the legacy of enslavement
57 min
332
What's your status?
51 min
333
Is there a hack for enlightenment?
59 min
334
Fighting a world on fire with fire
56 min
335
Revolutionary Love
51 min
336
How to make meaning out of suffering
52 min
337
Ken Burns's latest on The Greatest
62 min
338
The road from 9/11 to Donald Trump
62 min
339
Rep. Pramila Jayapal on immigrants and America ...
45 min
340
Why America's obsession with rights is wrong
52 min
341
The news is by — and for — rich, white liberals
57 min
342
Clint Smith III on confronting the legacy of sl...
55 min
343
Was the cruelty the point?
55 min
344
How seashells shaped the world — and predict ou...
52 min
345
Bill Maher on free speech, comedy, and his haters
45 min
346
Robert Reich wants you to take on the system
48 min
347
Marty Baron on the future of news
49 min
348
The death of cool
43 min
349
We need to talk about UFOs. Seriously.
Professor Alex Wendt tells Sean Illing why he thinks the aliens might already be here
57 min
350
Philadelphia's progressive prosecutor
District attorney Larry Krasner talks about his reform agenda, rising gun violence, and how to take on the system
49 min