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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Deborah Tannen on gendered speech, Hillary Clin...
89 min
627
Joseph Stiglitz on broken markets, bad trade de...
66 min
628
Let's talk about Hillary Clinton's policy ideas...
70 min
629
Francis Fukuyama on whether America's democracy...
67 min
630
Tyler Cowen interviews Ezra Klein about politic...
73 min
631
The best conversation I’ve had about the electi...
68 min
632
HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell on runnin...
43 min
633
Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is...
96 min
634
Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump ...
55 min
635
Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning...
91 min
636
W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twi...
88 min
637
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining conse...
90 min
638
Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conf...
86 min
639
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, a...
79 min
640
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
641
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min
642
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how th...
74 min
643
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
44 min
644
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the...
42 min
645
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong abou...
74 min
646
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lesson...
58 min
647
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, an...
68 min
648
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
55 min
649
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
63 min
650
Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing p...
111 min