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