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