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
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining conse...
90 min
727
Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conf...
86 min
728
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, a...
79 min
729
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
730
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min
731
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how th...
74 min
732
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
44 min
733
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the...
42 min
734
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong abou...
74 min
735
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lesson...
58 min
736
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, an...
68 min
737
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
55 min
738
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
63 min
739
Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing p...
111 min
740
Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks
54 min
741
Arianna Huffington on sleep, death, and social ...
81 min
742
Robert Reich on supporting Bernie Sanders, dati...
98 min
743
Bruce Friedrich on how technology will reduce a...
74 min
744
Ben Thompson on how to make it in media in 2016
91 min
745
Ben Thompson on how the media business is changing
91 min
746
Grover Norquist explains what it takes to chang...
84 min
747
Neera Tanden on what it's like to work for Hill...
66 min
748
David Chang, head of the Momofuku empire
82 min
749
Cory Booker on the spiritual dimension of politics
105 min
750
Michael Needham on the Republican Party's crack-up
68 min