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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Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is...
96 min
677
Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump ...
55 min
678
Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning...
91 min
679
W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twi...
88 min
680
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining conse...
90 min
681
Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conf...
86 min
682
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, a...
79 min
683
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
684
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min
685
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how th...
74 min
686
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
44 min
687
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the...
42 min
688
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong abou...
74 min
689
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lesson...
58 min
690
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, an...
68 min
691
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
55 min
692
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
63 min
693
Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing p...
111 min
694
Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks
54 min
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Arianna Huffington on sleep, death, and social ...
81 min
696
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
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Grover Norquist explains what it takes to chang...
84 min