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. From the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Philosophy
Politics
News Commentary
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HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell on runnin...
43 min
702
Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is...
96 min
703
Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump ...
55 min
704
Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning...
91 min
705
W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twi...
88 min
706
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining conse...
90 min
707
Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conf...
86 min
708
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, a...
79 min
709
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
710
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min
711
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how th...
74 min
712
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
44 min
713
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the...
42 min
714
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong abou...
74 min
715
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lesson...
58 min
716
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, an...
68 min
717
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
55 min
718
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
63 min
719
Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing p...
111 min
720
Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks
54 min
721
Arianna Huffington on sleep, death, and social ...
81 min
722
Robert Reich on supporting Bernie Sanders, dati...
98 min
723
Bruce Friedrich on how technology will reduce a...
74 min
724
Ben Thompson on how to make it in media in 2016
91 min
725
Ben Thompson on how the media business is changing
91 min