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
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
652
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min
653
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how th...
74 min
654
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
44 min
655
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the...
42 min
656
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong abou...
74 min
657
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lesson...
58 min
658
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, an...
68 min
659
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
55 min
660
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
63 min
661
Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing p...
111 min
662
Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks
54 min
663
Arianna Huffington on sleep, death, and social ...
81 min
664
Robert Reich on supporting Bernie Sanders, dati...
98 min
665
Bruce Friedrich on how technology will reduce a...
74 min
666
Ben Thompson on how to make it in media in 2016
91 min
667
Ben Thompson on how the media business is changing
91 min
668
Grover Norquist explains what it takes to chang...
84 min
669
Neera Tanden on what it's like to work for Hill...
66 min
670
David Chang, head of the Momofuku empire
82 min
671
Cory Booker on the spiritual dimension of politics
105 min
672
Michael Needham on the Republican Party's crack-up
68 min
673
Jim Yong Kim on revolutionizing how we treat th...
72 min
674
Theda Skocpol on how political scientists think...
57 min
675
Bill Gates on stopping climate change, building...
40 min