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