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