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
726
Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is...
96 min
727
Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump ...
55 min
728
Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning...
91 min
729
W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twi...
88 min
730
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining conse...
90 min
731
Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conf...
86 min
732
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, a...
79 min
733
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
734
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min
735
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how th...
74 min
736
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
44 min
737
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the...
42 min
738
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong abou...
74 min
739
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lesson...
58 min
740
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, an...
68 min
741
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
55 min
742
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
63 min
743
Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing p...
111 min
744
Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks
54 min
745
Arianna Huffington on sleep, death, and social ...
81 min
746
Robert Reich on supporting Bernie Sanders, dati...
98 min
747
Bruce Friedrich on how technology will reduce a...
74 min
748
Ben Thompson on how to make it in media in 2016
91 min
749
Ben Thompson on how the media business is changing
91 min
750
Grover Norquist explains what it takes to chang...
84 min