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
David Frum on the 2016 election, and the long d...
92 min
652
Deborah Tannen on gendered speech, Hillary Clin...
89 min
653
Joseph Stiglitz on broken markets, bad trade de...
66 min
654
Let's talk about Hillary Clinton's policy ideas...
70 min
655
Francis Fukuyama on whether America's democracy...
67 min
656
Tyler Cowen interviews Ezra Klein about politic...
73 min
657
The best conversation I’ve had about the electi...
68 min
658
HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell on runnin...
43 min
659
Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is...
96 min
660
Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump ...
55 min
661
Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning...
91 min
662
W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twi...
88 min
663
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining conse...
90 min
664
Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conf...
86 min
665
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, a...
79 min
666
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
667
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min
668
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how th...
74 min
669
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
44 min
670
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the...
42 min
671
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong abou...
74 min
672
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lesson...
58 min
673
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, an...
68 min
674
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
55 min
675
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
63 min