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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Francis Fukuyama on whether America's democracy...
67 min
752
Tyler Cowen interviews Ezra Klein about politic...
73 min
753
The best conversation I’ve had about the electi...
68 min
754
HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell on runnin...
43 min
755
Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is...
96 min
756
Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump ...
55 min
757
Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning...
91 min
758
W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twi...
88 min
759
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining conse...
90 min
760
Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conf...
86 min
761
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, a...
79 min
762
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
763
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min
764
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how th...
74 min
765
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
44 min
766
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the...
42 min
767
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong abou...
74 min
768
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lesson...
58 min
769
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, an...
68 min
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Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
55 min
771
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
63 min
772
Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing p...
111 min
773
Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks
54 min
774
Arianna Huffington on sleep, death, and social ...
81 min
775
Robert Reich on supporting Bernie Sanders, dati...
98 min