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