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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Deborah Tannen on gendered speech, Hillary Clin...
89 min
677
Joseph Stiglitz on broken markets, bad trade de...
66 min
678
Let's talk about Hillary Clinton's policy ideas...
70 min
679
Francis Fukuyama on whether America's democracy...
67 min
680
Tyler Cowen interviews Ezra Klein about politic...
73 min
681
The best conversation I’ve had about the electi...
68 min
682
HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell on runnin...
43 min
683
Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is...
96 min
684
Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump ...
55 min
685
Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning...
91 min
686
W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twi...
88 min
687
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining conse...
90 min
688
Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conf...
86 min
689
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, a...
79 min
690
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
691
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min
692
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how th...
74 min
693
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
44 min
694
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the...
42 min
695
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong abou...
74 min
696
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lesson...
58 min
697
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, an...
68 min
698
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
55 min
699
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
63 min
700
Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing p...
111 min