The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Vox 809 - Is it bad to want to be rich?

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.

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The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Episoade

Is it bad to want to be rich?

Why does killing a bug feel wrong?

How trauma became a status symbol

Inside the world of cash advance apps

This is how you rule the world

Is starting a family becoming impossible?

The millennial midlife crisis

How to be less neurotic

Your body wasn’t built for a desk

Why we want to believe in aliens

Straight dating isn’t broken

Kidneys for sale

How memory changes you

Freud was right about one thing

Why straight dating feels bleak

We’re postliterate

What does a parent owe their child?

The vanishing pleasures of daily life

How Google broke the internet

The illusion of the ‘self’

How MAGA is turning on itself

The global baby bust

Why public opinion turned on AI

A skeptic considers the case for God

The “Godzilla El Niño” is coming

The “real” America at 250

How to fix America’s spiritual crisis

The end of the human internet

The expectations on men

Canceling Plato

How to feel more secure

The people who want AI to replace us

Understanding our dreams

Do we really need to work so hard?

The post-sex generation

Talk to strangers

Who needs experts?

The myth of absolute freedom

The college dream has failed

Why progress is hard to see

The wellness path to conspiracy

The science of awe

In defense of fatherhood

The case for thinking like a child

The one thing the Supreme Court won’t touch

The Pentagon’s AI war machine

American democracy's structural flaw

The contradictions of wokeness

How to forgive yourself

The revolution will be memed