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
David Frum on the 2016 election, and the long d...
92 min
727
Deborah Tannen on gendered speech, Hillary Clin...
89 min
728
Joseph Stiglitz on broken markets, bad trade de...
66 min
729
Let's talk about Hillary Clinton's policy ideas...
70 min
730
Francis Fukuyama on whether America's democracy...
67 min
731
Tyler Cowen interviews Ezra Klein about politic...
73 min
732
The best conversation I’ve had about the electi...
68 min
733
HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell on runnin...
43 min
734
Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is...
96 min
735
Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump ...
55 min
736
Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning...
91 min
737
W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twi...
88 min
738
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining conse...
90 min
739
Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conf...
86 min
740
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, a...
79 min
741
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
742
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min
743
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how th...
74 min
744
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
44 min
745
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the...
42 min
746
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong abou...
74 min
747
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lesson...
58 min
748
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, an...
68 min
749
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
55 min
750
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
63 min