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
376
The gift of getting old
52 min
377
Freedom, and what it means to have a body
50 min
378
Why are we so worried about Satan?
58 min
379
How to be wrong less often
48 min
380
The complicated history of wildlife conservation
What can the past tell us about the future of fighting extinction?
65 min
381
How to replace everything in the industrialized...
58 min
382
Patricia Lockwood's big, beautiful internet brain
51 min
383
Who is the real George Soros?
53 min
384
Introducing Unexplainable
A new podcast from Vox about everything we don’t know.
26 min
385
The border, explained by someone who knows it i...
51 min
386
"Wintering," wisdom, and weathering life's dark...
62 min
387
Reframing America's race problem
49 min
388
Who owns the Western?
45 min
389
A Watchmen writer on race, TV, and tech giants
52 min
390
Uncovering the history of psychedelics in Chris...
48 min
391
Biden's immigration architect on racism, reform...
58 min
392
The Capitol Siege and American Revolution
41 min
393
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
394
The Joe Biden experience
Ezra Klein and Evan Osnos discuss our new president
61 min
395
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
396
Peter Kafka and Kevin Roose on big tech's power...
26 min
397
Sam Sanders and Olivia Nuzzi on President Trump...
41 min
398
Best of: We don’t just feel emotions. We make t...
A mind-blowing conversation with Lisa Feldman Barrett on how emotion is made
90 min
399
Best of: Ending the age of animal cruelty, with...
75 min
400
Best of: The moral philosophy of The Good Place
98 min