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IndividualAngst @individualangst.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Sean Illing of The Grey Area pod gets it exactly right. This is so much of what I see in the milieu I grew up around. “The people raging about The Odyssey want to kill Christian morality and keep Christian identity. They want Christendom without Christ.” seanilling.substack.com/p/you-cant-h...

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You can't have Homer, Nietzsche and Jesus

Thoughts on The Odyssey and the incoherence of the cultural Right.

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Vox @vox.com · 26/05/2026

What’s stopping you from picking up the phone to call a friend? Or talking to a stranger in line at a coffee shop? Our worry that other people don’t want to connect with us is stopping us from having meaningful conversations and connections that we all need. 🎥: @sean-d-illing.bsky.social

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Mark Hackett @markhackett.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

"Indeed, the past decade has been a reminder that democracy has no essence or shape; it is simply open society and its consequences...that democracy tilts inexorably toward liberalism was always to misunderstand its defining feature." - Zac Gershberg & @sean-d-illing.bsky.social

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sean illing @sean-d-illing.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Legacy media has descended into irrelevance for a hundred reasons but certainly one reason is how predictably banal and unthinking they are and it’s so excruciating to watch that millions would prefer to listen to any primate on a podcast if they appear even mildly authentic

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sean illing @sean-d-illing.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I would simply not interview someone if a condition of that interview was rhetorical fellatio on live television

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sean illing @sean-d-illing.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

JD Vance is so far gone that he doesn’t know who JD Vance is anymore. There’s nothing at the ground level. Just complete nihilistic opportunism where, presumably, an actual person with principles once existed.

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sean illing @sean-d-illing.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

It’s such a tired point but it can’t be said enough that if a Democratic president was even a fraction of this insane in public the entire Republican Party would spontaneously combust in horror

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sean illing @sean-d-illing.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The Dear Leader achieved 11 holes-in-one in a single 18 hole round in his first-ever game of golf

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Mark Sanders @citizen-sanders.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Just heard Samir Chopra discuss this book with @sean-d-illing.bsky.social on The Grey Area and it made me want to get it.

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sean illing @sean-d-illing.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Having a president who is self-evidently full of shit continues to be a problem

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I enjoyed this conversation by @sean-d-illing.bsky.social with @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social — one of the few journalists who truly understands the current threat of the far right.

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The end of world order as we know it

Podcast Episode · The Gray Area with Sean Illing · March 13 · 36m

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Hanna Pickard, author of What Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing but Cocaine?, speaks with @sean-d-illing.bsky.social for @vox.com’s The Gray Area podcast about her new book, addiction science, and her new paradigm for addiction:

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Alone in a cage with cocaine

Podcast Episode · The Gray Area with Sean Illing · March 9 · 49m

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sean illing @sean-d-illing.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Every monologue this guy gives sounds like it was written in the locker someone stuffed him in 20 years ago

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Listen to Samir Chopra, author of Anxiety: A Philosophical Guide, on @vox.com's The Gray Area with @sean-d-illing.bsky.social:

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Of course you're anxious

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sean illing @sean-d-illing.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

America is the only country capable of producing a creature this stupid and consequential

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sean illing @sean-d-illing.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

There’s a part of me that would love to see this only because it would immediately force a huge chunk of the population to step out of hyper reality and stop living in a bullshit political fantasy world

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sean illing @sean-d-illing.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I get that the postmoderns were annoying and unreadable but they were so thoroughly and depressingly correct about our dumb nihilistic future

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Vox @vox.com · 06/03/2026

Is there a coherent strategy behind the attack on Iran or is it being improvised in real time? Listen to The Gray Area with @sean-d-illing.bsky.social on Mondays and Fridays wherever you get your podcasts or on YouTube.

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Why are we at war with Iran? | The Gray Area

YouTube video by Vox

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sean illing @sean-d-illing.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Continue to believe that having a president who’s astonishingly full of shit is a major problem

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sean illing @sean-d-illing.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

This is my toddler explaining how he preemptively shit his pants in order to avoid shitting his pants in the future

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sean illing @sean-d-illing.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

This is a very particular species of gym guy. He loads the rack with significantly more weight than he can properly lift. He compensates for that by doing half-reps. This move directly undercuts his goal, which is to demonstrate his strength to the other primates. Very unfortunate.

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Secretary Kennedy on X: "Leg day in Austin. https://t.co/UMlPyIRs9i" / X

Leg day in Austin. https://t.co/UMlPyIRs9i

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Vox @vox.com · 27/02/2026

Is the "motherhood penalty" finally scaring women away, or are men just seeing family life through a different lens? @sean-d-illing.bsky.social and @annanorth.bsky.social break down why the "lost generation" is suddenly so divided.

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sean illing @sean-d-illing.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I simply cannot express how passionately I dislike these people

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sean illing @sean-d-illing.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Things having this dual quality of being both relentlessly stupid and deeply alarming is really the hallmark of the Trump era

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sean illing @sean-d-illing.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

My latest for @vox.com is a conversation with one of my favorite philosophers, C. Thi Nguyen, where we talk about the gamification of life. It's based on his incredible book, "The Score," which you absolutely check out. www.vox.com/podcasts/479...

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The real reasons people love playing games

A seemingly trivial practice has deep benefits — but there are times we simply don’t get them.

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sean illing @sean-d-illing.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I’ve arrived at Bluesky. History continues its strange march.

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