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.
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Introducing The Gray Area
Embrace uncertainty
1 min
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Best of: Why America's obsession with rights is...
54 min
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A GOP insider on why the party went Trump
56 min
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How do we fix the harm we cause?
45 min
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A new philosophy of love
55 min
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The politics of 'Yellowstone'
25 min
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How society sexualizes us
51 min
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The Parent Trap
How society is failing parents and children
55 min
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40 Acres: Reaching reconciliation
28 min
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40 Acres: The old Jim Crow
43 min
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40 Acres: $14 trillion and no mules
44 min
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40 Acres: The original promise
49 min
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What Clarence Thomas really thinks
And why he's the most misunderstood Supreme Court Justice, according to the author of The Enigma of Clarence Thomas
59 min
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Even Better: Don't call it a budget
45 min
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The quest for authenticity
Better living through the existentialism of Simone de Beauvoir
46 min
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Even Better: Setting your boundaries
43 min
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Your gut instinct is usually wrong
A data scientist on how to make decisions
49 min
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Even Better: Workplace equality 2.0
51 min
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Why we're still postmodern (whatever that means)
53 min
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Even Better: Activism when you don't know where...
47 min
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The Supreme Court's power grab
60 min
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How middlemen took over the economy
60 min
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The necessity — and danger — of free speech
Free speech is essential for democracy. It may also be democracy's downfall.
50 min
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Hacking coral sex to save the reefs
49 min
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The price of keeping secrets
47 min