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
Jill Lepore on Elon Musk's imaginary world
57 min
327
E.O. Wilson's plan to save the world
51 min
328
Workers of the world, stay home!
57 min
329
How progressives get back in the game
57 min
330
The highs and lows of the "creator economy"
44 min
331
Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now
55 min
332
The stories soul food tells
45 min
333
The paradox of American freedom
51 min
334
Nonbinary parenthood
55 min
335
John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist
61 min
336
The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care
57 min
337
How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation p...
52 min
338
Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom
How a former sharecropper disrupted American politics
54 min
339
What the internet took from us
53 min
340
Trapped inside with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi
43 min
341
Bryan Stevenson on the legacy of enslavement
57 min
342
What's your status?
51 min
343
Is there a hack for enlightenment?
59 min
344
Fighting a world on fire with fire
56 min
345
Revolutionary Love
51 min
346
How to make meaning out of suffering
52 min
347
Ken Burns's latest on The Greatest
62 min
348
The road from 9/11 to Donald Trump
62 min
349
Rep. Pramila Jayapal on immigrants and America ...
45 min
350
Why America's obsession with rights is wrong
52 min