The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Gray Area with host Sean Illing is a philosophical take on culture, politics, and everything in between. We don’t pretend to have the answers, but we do offer a space for real dialogue. Resist certainty, embrace ambiguity, and get some cool takes on a very hot world. Formerly the Vox Conversations podcast. New episodes drop every Monday.
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The price of keeping secrets
47 min
102
Does China control Hollywood?
58 min
103
Steve Bannon is still at war
45 min
104
The Fortress of Solitude saw it all coming
Constance Grady talks with author Jonathan Lethem about his prescient 2003 novel
34 min
105
The Philosophers: Stoic revival
59 min
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Station Eleven's creator on the end of the world
Showrunner Patrick Somerville on why hope is necessary for survival
47 min
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The racist origins of fat phobia
49 min
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The fight for Ukraine — and democracy
49 min
109
The war on trans people
49 min
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Michael Ian Black on being a better man
50 min
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Carmen Maria Machado's haunted feminine
36 min
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The rise and fall of America's monuments
45 min
113
The Philosophers: America's philosophy, with Co...
55 min
114
Why accidents aren't accidental
47 min
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Rethinking the "end of history"
56 min
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Anita Hill finally gets even
55 min
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Elites have captured identity politics
52 min
118
The moral dangers of dirty work
54 min
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Did the sexual revolution go wrong?
53 min
120
Who decides how to conserve nature?
55 min
121
The Philosophers: Loneliness and totalitarianism
58 min
122
The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 4: The fut...
59 min
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Michael Lewis on why Americans distrust experts
52 min
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The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 3: The nuc...
51 min
125
The case for regret
45 min