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