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.
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What the climate story gets wrong
45 min
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The Great Enshittening
44 min
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America chose violence. Now what?
54 min
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What's worth remembering?
55 min
30
Why TikTok matters
60 min
31
The sun will save us
43 min
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How much free speech is too much?
50 min
33
Imagine there's no billionaires
How much money is too much?
50 min
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America's lawyers vs. China's engineers
48 min
35
So, what exactly is the “New Right?”
A loose movement of radical intellectuals is driving American politics.
48 min
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America is losing big on sports betting
50 min
37
It’s time to get weird
57 min
38
What if humans went extinct next Friday?
56 min
39
Can college survive Trump?
54 min
40
Hopeful pessimism
48 min
41
If AI can do your classwork, why go to college?
51 min
42
Is Trump winning?
45 min
43
A right-wing economist makes his case
60 min
44
What "near death" feels like
48 min
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Machiavelli on how democracies die
44 min
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Do you have moral ambition?
53 min
47
The science of ideology
48 min
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A new analysis of the pandemic
43 min
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Halfway there: a philosopher’s guide to midlife...
47 min
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Whatever this is, it isn’t liberalism
What exactly is the basis for democracy?
50 min