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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Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conf...
86 min
702
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, a...
79 min
703
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
704
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min
705
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how th...
74 min
706
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
44 min
707
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the...
42 min
708
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong abou...
74 min
709
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lesson...
58 min
710
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, an...
68 min
711
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
55 min
712
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
63 min
713
Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing p...
111 min
714
Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks
54 min
715
Arianna Huffington on sleep, death, and social ...
81 min
716
Robert Reich on supporting Bernie Sanders, dati...
98 min
717
Bruce Friedrich on how technology will reduce a...
74 min
718
Ben Thompson on how to make it in media in 2016
91 min
719
Ben Thompson on how the media business is changing
91 min
720
Grover Norquist explains what it takes to chang...
84 min
721
Neera Tanden on what it's like to work for Hill...
66 min
722
David Chang, head of the Momofuku empire
82 min
723
Cory Booker on the spiritual dimension of politics
105 min
724
Michael Needham on the Republican Party's crack-up
68 min
725
Jim Yong Kim on revolutionizing how we treat th...
72 min