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
The problem with gamifying life
45 min
2
America is football
47 min
3
How we built a government that can’t build anyt...
42 min
4
It’s okay to not be okay
55 min
5
Forgiveness is optional
60 min
6
The pornification of everything
52 min
7
What counts as progress?
37 min
8
How to survive awkward encounters
53 min
9
Truth in an age of doublethink
48 min
10
The case against free will
55 min
11
What the climate story gets wrong
45 min
12
The Great Enshittening
44 min
13
America chose violence. Now what?
54 min
14
What's worth remembering?
55 min
15
Why TikTok matters
60 min
16
The sun will save us
43 min
17
How much free speech is too much?
50 min
18
Imagine there's no billionaires
How much money is too much?
50 min
19
America's lawyers vs. China's engineers
48 min
20
So, what exactly is the “New Right?”
A loose movement of radical intellectuals is driving American politics. 
48 min
21
America is losing big on sports betting
50 min
22
It’s time to get weird
57 min
23
What if humans went extinct next Friday?
56 min
24
Can college survive Trump?
54 min
25
Hopeful pessimism
48 min