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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Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump ...
55 min
627
Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning...
91 min
628
W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twi...
88 min
629
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining conse...
90 min
630
Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conf...
86 min
631
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, a...
79 min
632
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
633
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min
634
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how th...
74 min
635
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
44 min
636
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the...
42 min
637
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong abou...
74 min
638
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lesson...
58 min
639
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, an...
68 min
640
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
55 min
641
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
63 min
642
Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing p...
111 min
643
Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks
54 min
644
Arianna Huffington on sleep, death, and social ...
81 min
645
Robert Reich on supporting Bernie Sanders, dati...
98 min
646
Bruce Friedrich on how technology will reduce a...
74 min
647
Ben Thompson on how to make it in media in 2016
91 min
648
Ben Thompson on how the media business is changing
91 min
649
Grover Norquist explains what it takes to chang...
84 min
650
Neera Tanden on what it's like to work for Hill...
66 min