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