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
51
How to survive awkward encounters
53 min
52
Truth in an age of doublethink
48 min
53
The case against free will
55 min
54
What the climate story gets wrong
45 min
55
The Great Enshittening
44 min
56
America chose violence. Now what?
54 min
57
What's worth remembering?
55 min
58
Why TikTok matters
60 min
59
The sun will save us
43 min
60
How much free speech is too much?
50 min
61
Imagine there's no billionaires
How much money is too much?
50 min
62
America's lawyers vs. China's engineers
48 min
63
So, what exactly is the “New Right?”
A loose movement of radical intellectuals is driving American politics. 
48 min
64
America is losing big on sports betting
50 min
65
It’s time to get weird
57 min
66
What if humans went extinct next Friday?
56 min
67
Can college survive Trump?
54 min
68
Hopeful pessimism
48 min
69
If AI can do your classwork, why go to college?
51 min
70
Is Trump winning?
45 min
71
A right-wing economist makes his case
60 min
72
What "near death" feels like
48 min
73
Machiavelli on how democracies die
44 min
74
Do you have moral ambition?
53 min
75
The science of ideology
48 min