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
201
Neil deGrasse Tyson gets political
America's personal astrophysicist takes on our most vexing societal problems. But can science really make political struggles disappear?
53 min
202
Introducing The Gray Area
Embrace uncertainty
1 min
203
Best of: Why America's obsession with rights is...
54 min
204
A GOP insider on why the party went Trump
56 min
205
How do we fix the harm we cause?
45 min
206
A new philosophy of love
55 min
207
The politics of 'Yellowstone'
25 min
208
How society sexualizes us
51 min
209
The Parent Trap
How society is failing parents and children
55 min
210
40 Acres: Reaching reconciliation
28 min
211
40 Acres: The old Jim Crow
43 min
212
40 Acres: $14 trillion and no mules
44 min
213
40 Acres: The original promise
49 min
214
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
215
Even Better: Don't call it a budget
45 min
216
The quest for authenticity
Better living through the existentialism of Simone de Beauvoir
46 min
217
Even Better: Setting your boundaries
43 min
218
Your gut instinct is usually wrong
A data scientist on how to make decisions
49 min
219
Even Better: Workplace equality 2.0
51 min
220
Why we're still postmodern (whatever that means)
53 min
221
Even Better: Activism when you don't know where...
47 min
222
The Supreme Court's power grab
60 min
223
How middlemen took over the economy
60 min
224
The necessity — and danger — of free speech
Free speech is essential for democracy. It may also be democracy's downfall.
50 min
225
Hacking coral sex to save the reefs
49 min