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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The best conversation I’ve had about the electi...
68 min
702
HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell on runnin...
43 min
703
Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is...
96 min
704
Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump ...
55 min
705
Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning...
91 min
706
W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twi...
88 min
707
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining conse...
90 min
708
Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conf...
86 min
709
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, a...
79 min
710
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
711
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min
712
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how th...
74 min
713
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
44 min
714
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the...
42 min
715
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong abou...
74 min
716
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lesson...
58 min
717
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, an...
68 min
718
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
55 min
719
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
63 min
720
Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing p...
111 min
721
Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks
54 min
722
Arianna Huffington on sleep, death, and social ...
81 min
723
Robert Reich on supporting Bernie Sanders, dati...
98 min
724
Bruce Friedrich on how technology will reduce a...
74 min
725
Ben Thompson on how to make it in media in 2016
91 min