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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Tim Wu's interesting, unusual, fascinating life
89 min
702
Ta-Nehisi Coates: "There’s not gonna be a happy...
100 min
703
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison on management, rati...
87 min
704
Award-winning chef José Andrés on cooking, crea...
86 min
705
Heather McGhee returns to talk Trump, race, and...
59 min
706
Ron Brownstein: Clinton didn’t lose because of ...
63 min
707
David Frum on the 2016 election, and the long d...
92 min
708
Deborah Tannen on gendered speech, Hillary Clin...
89 min
709
Joseph Stiglitz on broken markets, bad trade de...
66 min
710
Let's talk about Hillary Clinton's policy ideas...
70 min
711
Francis Fukuyama on whether America's democracy...
67 min
712
Tyler Cowen interviews Ezra Klein about politic...
73 min
713
The best conversation I’ve had about the electi...
68 min
714
HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell on runnin...
43 min
715
Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is...
96 min
716
Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump ...
55 min
717
Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning...
91 min
718
W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twi...
88 min
719
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining conse...
90 min
720
Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conf...
86 min
721
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, a...
79 min
722
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
723
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min
724
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how th...
74 min
725
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
44 min