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.

Philosophy
Politics
News Commentary
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Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conf...
86 min
627
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, a...
79 min
628
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
629
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min
630
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how th...
74 min
631
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
44 min
632
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the...
42 min
633
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong abou...
74 min
634
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lesson...
58 min
635
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, an...
68 min
636
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
55 min
637
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
63 min
638
Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing p...
111 min
639
Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks
54 min
640
Arianna Huffington on sleep, death, and social ...
81 min
641
Robert Reich on supporting Bernie Sanders, dati...
98 min
642
Bruce Friedrich on how technology will reduce a...
74 min
643
Ben Thompson on how to make it in media in 2016
91 min
644
Ben Thompson on how the media business is changing
91 min
645
Grover Norquist explains what it takes to chang...
84 min
646
Neera Tanden on what it's like to work for Hill...
66 min
647
David Chang, head of the Momofuku empire
82 min
648
Cory Booker on the spiritual dimension of politics
105 min
649
Michael Needham on the Republican Party's crack-up
68 min
650
Jim Yong Kim on revolutionizing how we treat th...
72 min