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