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
1
Truth in an age of doublethink
48 min
2
The case against free will
55 min
3
What the climate story gets wrong
45 min
4
The Great Enshittening
44 min
5
America chose violence. Now what?
54 min
6
What's worth remembering?
55 min
7
Why TikTok matters
60 min
8
The sun will save us
43 min
9
How much free speech is too much?
50 min
10
Imagine there's no billionaires
How much money is too much?
50 min
11
America's lawyers vs. China's engineers
48 min
12
So, what exactly is the “New Right?”
A loose movement of radical intellectuals is driving American politics. 
48 min
13
America is losing big on sports betting
50 min
14
It’s time to get weird
57 min
15
What if humans went extinct next Friday?
56 min
16
Can college survive Trump?
54 min
17
Hopeful pessimism
48 min
18
If AI can do your classwork, why go to college?
51 min
19
Is Trump winning?
45 min
20
A right-wing economist makes his case
60 min
21
What "near death" feels like
48 min
22
Machiavelli on how democracies die
44 min
23
Do you have moral ambition?
53 min
24
The science of ideology
48 min
25
A new analysis of the pandemic
43 min