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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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
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Does China control Hollywood?
58 min
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Steve Bannon is still at war
45 min
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The Fortress of Solitude saw it all coming
Constance Grady talks with author Jonathan Lethem about his prescient 2003 novel
34 min
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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
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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
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The Philosophers: America's philosophy, with Co...
55 min
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Why accidents aren't accidental
47 min