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