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
701
David Frum on the 2016 election, and the long d...
92 min
702
Deborah Tannen on gendered speech, Hillary Clin...
89 min
703
Joseph Stiglitz on broken markets, bad trade de...
66 min
704
Let's talk about Hillary Clinton's policy ideas...
70 min
705
Francis Fukuyama on whether America's democracy...
67 min
706
Tyler Cowen interviews Ezra Klein about politic...
73 min
707
The best conversation I’ve had about the electi...
68 min
708
HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell on runnin...
43 min
709
Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is...
96 min
710
Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump ...
55 min
711
Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning...
91 min
712
W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twi...
88 min
713
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining conse...
90 min
714
Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conf...
86 min
715
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, a...
79 min
716
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
717
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min
718
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how th...
74 min
719
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
44 min
720
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the...
42 min
721
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong abou...
74 min
722
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lesson...
58 min
723
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, an...
68 min
724
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
55 min
725
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
63 min