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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HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell on runnin...
43 min
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Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is...
96 min
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Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump ...
55 min
679
Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning...
91 min
680
W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twi...
88 min
681
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining conse...
90 min
682
Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conf...
86 min
683
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, a...
79 min
684
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
685
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min
686
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how th...
74 min
687
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
44 min
688
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the...
42 min
689
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong abou...
74 min
690
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lesson...
58 min
691
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, an...
68 min
692
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
55 min
693
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
63 min
694
Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing p...
111 min
695
Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks
54 min
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Arianna Huffington on sleep, death, and social ...
81 min
697
Robert Reich on supporting Bernie Sanders, dati...
98 min
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Bruce Friedrich on how technology will reduce a...
74 min
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Ben Thompson on how to make it in media in 2016
91 min
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Ben Thompson on how the media business is changing
91 min