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