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
76
What counts as progress?
37 min
77
How to survive awkward encounters
53 min
78
Truth in an age of doublethink
48 min
79
The case against free will
55 min
80
What the climate story gets wrong
45 min
81
The Great Enshittening
44 min
82
America chose violence. Now what?
54 min
83
What's worth remembering?
55 min
84
Why TikTok matters
60 min
85
The sun will save us
43 min
86
How much free speech is too much?
50 min
87
Imagine there's no billionaires
How much money is too much?
50 min
88
America's lawyers vs. China's engineers
48 min
89
So, what exactly is the “New Right?”
A loose movement of radical intellectuals is driving American politics. 
48 min
90
America is losing big on sports betting
50 min
91
It’s time to get weird
57 min
92
What if humans went extinct next Friday?
56 min
93
Can college survive Trump?
54 min
94
Hopeful pessimism
48 min
95
If AI can do your classwork, why go to college?
51 min
96
Is Trump winning?
45 min
97
A right-wing economist makes his case
60 min
98
What "near death" feels like
48 min
99
Machiavelli on how democracies die
44 min
100
Do you have moral ambition?
53 min