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
Why everyone is embracing populism
23 min
2
How Silicon Valley learned to love war
49 min
3
Is America a gerontocracy?
43 min
4
Inside the secret race to build artificial inte...
40 min
5
What makes a life good enough?
40 min
6
Can prediction markets be good for society?
44 min
7
Our gender divide
43 min
8
The death row assembly line
55 min
9
Is it bad to want to be rich?
47 min
10
Why does killing a bug feel wrong?
31 min
11
How trauma became a status symbol
39 min
12
Inside the world of cash advance apps
41 min
13
This is how you rule the world
55 min
14
Is starting a family becoming impossible?
54 min
15
The millennial midlife crisis
46 min
16
How to be less neurotic
36 min
17
Your body wasn’t built for a desk
40 min
18
Why we want to believe in aliens
47 min
19
Straight dating isn’t broken
39 min
20
Kidneys for sale
45 min
21
How memory changes you
55 min
22
Freud was right about one thing
55 min
23
Why straight dating feels bleak
54 min
24
We’re postliterate
48 min
25
What does a parent owe their child?
24 min