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
326
The man who proposed reparations in the 1860s
Abe Lincoln's forgotten abolitionist ally
62 min
327
What pandemic recovery should look like
54 min
328
The gift of getting old
52 min
329
Freedom, and what it means to have a body
50 min
330
Why are we so worried about Satan?
58 min
331
How to be wrong less often
48 min
332
The complicated history of wildlife conservation
What can the past tell us about the future of fighting extinction?
65 min
333
How to replace everything in the industrialized...
58 min
334
Patricia Lockwood's big, beautiful internet brain
51 min
335
Who is the real George Soros?
53 min
336
Introducing Unexplainable
A new podcast from Vox about everything we don’t know.
26 min
337
The border, explained by someone who knows it i...
51 min
338
"Wintering," wisdom, and weathering life's dark...
62 min
339
Reframing America's race problem
49 min
340
Who owns the Western?
45 min
341
A Watchmen writer on race, TV, and tech giants
52 min
342
Uncovering the history of psychedelics in Chris...
48 min
343
Biden's immigration architect on racism, reform...
58 min
344
The Capitol Siege and American Revolution
41 min
345
Why fascism in Post-Trump America isn't going away
Vox's Sean Illing and Yale professor Jason Stanley discuss why American democracy provides such fertile soil for fascism
40 min
346
The Joe Biden experience
Ezra Klein and Evan Osnos discuss our new president
61 min
347
What it means to be a "good" rich person
Exploring the anxieties of wealthy people and their desire to be seen as "middle class."
46 min
348
Peter Kafka and Kevin Roose on big tech's power...
26 min
349
Sam Sanders and Olivia Nuzzi on President Trump...
41 min
350
Best of: We don’t just feel emotions. We make t...
A mind-blowing conversation with Lisa Feldman Barrett on how emotion is made
90 min