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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The best conversation I’ve had about the electi...
68 min
652
HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell on runnin...
43 min
653
Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is...
96 min
654
Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump ...
55 min
655
Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning...
91 min
656
W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twi...
88 min
657
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining conse...
90 min
658
Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conf...
86 min
659
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, a...
79 min
660
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
661
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min
662
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how th...
74 min
663
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
44 min
664
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the...
42 min
665
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong abou...
74 min
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Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lesson...
58 min
667
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, an...
68 min
668
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
55 min
669
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
63 min
670
Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing p...
111 min
671
Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks
54 min
672
Arianna Huffington on sleep, death, and social ...
81 min
673
Robert Reich on supporting Bernie Sanders, dati...
98 min
674
Bruce Friedrich on how technology will reduce a...
74 min
675
Ben Thompson on how to make it in media in 2016
91 min