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
How to be less neurotic
36 min
2
Your body wasn’t built for a desk
40 min
3
Why we want to believe in aliens
47 min
4
Straight dating isn’t broken
39 min
5
Kidneys for sale
45 min
6
How memory changes you
55 min
7
Freud was right about one thing
55 min
8
Why straight dating feels bleak
54 min
9
We’re postliterate
48 min
10
What does a parent owe their child?
24 min
11
The vanishing pleasures of daily life
44 min
12
How Google broke the internet
37 min
13
The illusion of the ‘self’
40 min
14
How MAGA is turning on itself
43 min
15
The global baby bust
46 min
16
Why public opinion turned on AI
41 min
17
A skeptic considers the case for God
48 min
18
The “Godzilla El Niño” is coming
39 min
19
The “real” America at 250
43 min
20
How to fix America’s spiritual crisis
44 min
21
The end of the human internet
37 min
22
The expectations on men
45 min
23
Canceling Plato
36 min
24
How to feel more secure
46 min
25
The people who want AI to replace us
45 min