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
626
Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning...
91 min
627
W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twi...
88 min
628
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining conse...
90 min
629
Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conf...
86 min
630
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, a...
79 min
631
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
632
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min
633
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how th...
74 min
634
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
44 min
635
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the...
42 min
636
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong abou...
74 min
637
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lesson...
58 min
638
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, an...
68 min
639
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
55 min
640
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
63 min
641
Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing p...
111 min
642
Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks
54 min
643
Arianna Huffington on sleep, death, and social ...
81 min
644
Robert Reich on supporting Bernie Sanders, dati...
98 min
645
Bruce Friedrich on how technology will reduce a...
74 min
646
Ben Thompson on how to make it in media in 2016
91 min
647
Ben Thompson on how the media business is changing
91 min
648
Grover Norquist explains what it takes to chang...
84 min
649
Neera Tanden on what it's like to work for Hill...
66 min
650
David Chang, head of the Momofuku empire
82 min