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 cult of toughness
61 min
327
Is ethical investing a scam?
52 min
328
The good life is painful
49 min
329
The father of environmental justice
45 min
330
Jill Lepore on Elon Musk's imaginary world
57 min
331
E.O. Wilson's plan to save the world
51 min
332
Workers of the world, stay home!
57 min
333
How progressives get back in the game
57 min
334
The highs and lows of the "creator economy"
44 min
335
Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now
55 min
336
The stories soul food tells
45 min
337
The paradox of American freedom
51 min
338
Nonbinary parenthood
55 min
339
John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist
61 min
340
The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care
57 min
341
How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation p...
52 min
342
Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom
How a former sharecropper disrupted American politics
54 min
343
What the internet took from us
53 min
344
Trapped inside with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi
43 min
345
Bryan Stevenson on the legacy of enslavement
57 min
346
What's your status?
51 min
347
Is there a hack for enlightenment?
59 min
348
Fighting a world on fire with fire
56 min
349
Revolutionary Love
51 min
350
How to make meaning out of suffering
52 min