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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Are we living in a simulation?
Philosopher David Chalmers on the question: what is reality, anyway?
63 min
327
Rep. Jamie Raskin on living through the unthink...
52 min
328
Best of: Why fascism in America isn't going away
44 min
329
Best of: Clint Smith III on confronting the leg...
56 min
330
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
331
Chris Bosh on winning (and losing everything)
53 min
332
The cult of toughness
61 min
333
Is ethical investing a scam?
52 min
334
The good life is painful
49 min
335
The father of environmental justice
45 min
336
Jill Lepore on Elon Musk's imaginary world
57 min
337
E.O. Wilson's plan to save the world
51 min
338
Workers of the world, stay home!
57 min
339
How progressives get back in the game
57 min
340
The highs and lows of the "creator economy"
44 min
341
Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now
55 min
342
The stories soul food tells
45 min
343
The paradox of American freedom
51 min
344
Nonbinary parenthood
55 min
345
John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist
61 min
346
The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care
57 min
347
How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation p...
52 min
348
Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom
How a former sharecropper disrupted American politics
54 min
349
What the internet took from us
53 min
350
Trapped inside with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi
43 min