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