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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Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning...
91 min
677
W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twi...
88 min
678
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining conse...
90 min
679
Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conf...
86 min
680
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, a...
79 min
681
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
682
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min
683
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how th...
74 min
684
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
44 min
685
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the...
42 min
686
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong abou...
74 min
687
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lesson...
58 min
688
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, an...
68 min
689
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
55 min
690
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
63 min
691
Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing p...
111 min
692
Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks
54 min
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Arianna Huffington on sleep, death, and social ...
81 min
694
Robert Reich on supporting Bernie Sanders, dati...
98 min
695
Bruce Friedrich on how technology will reduce a...
74 min
696
Ben Thompson on how to make it in media in 2016
91 min
697
Ben Thompson on how the media business is changing
91 min
698
Grover Norquist explains what it takes to chang...
84 min
699
Neera Tanden on what it's like to work for Hill...
66 min
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David Chang, head of the Momofuku empire
82 min