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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Honoring Juneteenth with Ibram X. Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi on racism, systemic change, and whether an antiracist America is even possible
47 min
327
Digital dictatorship
54 min
328
The man who proposed reparations in the 1860s
Abe Lincoln's forgotten abolitionist ally
62 min
329
What pandemic recovery should look like
54 min
330
The gift of getting old
52 min
331
Freedom, and what it means to have a body
50 min
332
Why are we so worried about Satan?
58 min
333
How to be wrong less often
48 min
334
The complicated history of wildlife conservation
What can the past tell us about the future of fighting extinction?
65 min
335
How to replace everything in the industrialized...
58 min
336
Patricia Lockwood's big, beautiful internet brain
51 min
337
Who is the real George Soros?
53 min
338
Introducing Unexplainable
A new podcast from Vox about everything we don’t know.
26 min
339
The border, explained by someone who knows it i...
51 min
340
"Wintering," wisdom, and weathering life's dark...
62 min
341
Reframing America's race problem
49 min
342
Who owns the Western?
45 min
343
A Watchmen writer on race, TV, and tech giants
52 min
344
Uncovering the history of psychedelics in Chris...
48 min
345
Biden's immigration architect on racism, reform...
58 min
346
The Capitol Siege and American Revolution
41 min
347
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
348
The Joe Biden experience
Ezra Klein and Evan Osnos discuss our new president
61 min
349
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
350
Peter Kafka and Kevin Roose on big tech's power...
26 min