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