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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Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conf...
86 min
677
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, a...
79 min
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Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
679
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min
680
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how th...
74 min
681
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
44 min
682
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the...
42 min
683
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong abou...
74 min
684
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lesson...
58 min
685
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, an...
68 min
686
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
55 min
687
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
63 min
688
Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing p...
111 min
689
Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks
54 min
690
Arianna Huffington on sleep, death, and social ...
81 min
691
Robert Reich on supporting Bernie Sanders, dati...
98 min
692
Bruce Friedrich on how technology will reduce a...
74 min
693
Ben Thompson on how to make it in media in 2016
91 min
694
Ben Thompson on how the media business is changing
91 min
695
Grover Norquist explains what it takes to chang...
84 min
696
Neera Tanden on what it's like to work for Hill...
66 min
697
David Chang, head of the Momofuku empire
82 min
698
Cory Booker on the spiritual dimension of politics
105 min
699
Michael Needham on the Republican Party's crack-up
68 min
700
Jim Yong Kim on revolutionizing how we treat th...
72 min