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
The revolution will be memed
45 min
2
How A became A
25 min
3
Why humans need to matter
43 min
4
A brief update on the AI apocalypse
33 min
5
Consciousness is a mystery
35 min
6
The end of world order as we know it
32 min
7
Alone in a cage with cocaine
45 min
8
Winging it in Iran
33 min
9
Of course you're anxious
38 min
10
Gen Z men have baby fever
Gen Z men have baby fever
30 min
11
Why mindfulness got weird
38 min
12
You’re right to bear arms
36 min
13
Happy news from Sean 
1 min
14
The problem with gamifying life
45 min
15
America is football
47 min
16
How we built a government that can’t build anyt...
42 min
17
It’s okay to not be okay
55 min
18
Forgiveness is optional
60 min
19
The pornification of everything
52 min
20
What counts as progress?
37 min
21
How to survive awkward encounters
53 min
22
Truth in an age of doublethink
48 min
23
The case against free will
55 min
24
What the climate story gets wrong
45 min
25
The Great Enshittening
44 min