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
26
Truth in an age of doublethink
48 min
27
The case against free will
55 min
28
What the climate story gets wrong
45 min
29
The Great Enshittening
44 min
30
America chose violence. Now what?
54 min
31
What's worth remembering?
55 min
32
Why TikTok matters
60 min
33
The sun will save us
43 min
34
How much free speech is too much?
50 min
35
Imagine there's no billionaires
How much money is too much?
50 min
36
America's lawyers vs. China's engineers
48 min
37
So, what exactly is the “New Right?”
A loose movement of radical intellectuals is driving American politics. 
48 min
38
America is losing big on sports betting
50 min
39
It’s time to get weird
57 min
40
What if humans went extinct next Friday?
56 min
41
Can college survive Trump?
54 min
42
Hopeful pessimism
48 min
43
If AI can do your classwork, why go to college?
51 min
44
Is Trump winning?
45 min
45
A right-wing economist makes his case
60 min
46
What "near death" feels like
48 min
47
Machiavelli on how democracies die
44 min
48
Do you have moral ambition?
53 min
49
The science of ideology
48 min
50
A new analysis of the pandemic
43 min