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
651
Deborah Tannen on gendered speech, Hillary Clin...
89 min
652
Joseph Stiglitz on broken markets, bad trade de...
66 min
653
Let's talk about Hillary Clinton's policy ideas...
70 min
654
Francis Fukuyama on whether America's democracy...
67 min
655
Tyler Cowen interviews Ezra Klein about politic...
73 min
656
The best conversation I’ve had about the electi...
68 min
657
HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell on runnin...
43 min
658
Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is...
96 min
659
Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump ...
55 min
660
Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning...
91 min
661
W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twi...
88 min
662
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining conse...
90 min
663
Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conf...
86 min
664
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, a...
79 min
665
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
666
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min
667
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how th...
74 min
668
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
44 min
669
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the...
42 min
670
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong abou...
74 min
671
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lesson...
58 min
672
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, an...
68 min
673
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
55 min
674
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
63 min
675
Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing p...
111 min