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