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 does killing a bug feel wrong?
31 min
2
How trauma became a status symbol
39 min
3
Inside the world of cash advance apps
41 min
4
This is how you rule the world
55 min
5
Is starting a family becoming impossible?
54 min
6
The millennial midlife crisis
46 min
7
How to be less neurotic
36 min
8
Your body wasn’t built for a desk
40 min
9
Why we want to believe in aliens
47 min
10
Straight dating isn’t broken
39 min
11
Kidneys for sale
45 min
12
How memory changes you
55 min
13
Freud was right about one thing
55 min
14
Why straight dating feels bleak
54 min
15
We’re postliterate
48 min
16
What does a parent owe their child?
24 min
17
The vanishing pleasures of daily life
44 min
18
How Google broke the internet
37 min
19
The illusion of the ‘self’
40 min
20
How MAGA is turning on itself
43 min
21
The global baby bust
46 min
22
Why public opinion turned on AI
41 min
23
A skeptic considers the case for God
48 min
24
The “Godzilla El Niño” is coming
39 min
25
The “real” America at 250
43 min