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
What the climate story gets wrong
45 min
2
The Great Enshittening
44 min
3
America chose violence. Now what?
54 min
4
What's worth remembering?
55 min
5
Why TikTok matters
60 min
6
The sun will save us
43 min
7
How much free speech is too much?
50 min
8
Imagine there's no billionaires
How much money is too much?
50 min
9
America's lawyers vs. China's engineers
48 min
10
So, what exactly is the “New Right?”
A loose movement of radical intellectuals is driving American politics. 
48 min
11
America is losing big on sports betting
50 min
12
It’s time to get weird
57 min
13
What if humans went extinct next Friday?
56 min
14
Can college survive Trump?
54 min
15
Hopeful pessimism
48 min
16
If AI can do your classwork, why go to college?
51 min
17
Is Trump winning?
45 min
18
A right-wing economist makes his case
60 min
19
What "near death" feels like
48 min
20
Machiavelli on how democracies die
44 min
21
Do you have moral ambition?
53 min
22
The science of ideology
48 min
23
A new analysis of the pandemic
43 min
24
Halfway there: a philosopher’s guide to midlife...
47 min
25
Whatever this is, it isn’t liberalism
What exactly is the basis for democracy?
50 min