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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Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump ...
55 min
752
Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning...
91 min
753
W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twi...
88 min
754
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining conse...
90 min
755
Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conf...
86 min
756
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, a...
79 min
757
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
758
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min
759
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how th...
74 min
760
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
44 min
761
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the...
42 min
762
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong abou...
74 min
763
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lesson...
58 min
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Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, an...
68 min
765
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
55 min
766
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
63 min
767
Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing p...
111 min
768
Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks
54 min
769
Arianna Huffington on sleep, death, and social ...
81 min
770
Robert Reich on supporting Bernie Sanders, dati...
98 min
771
Bruce Friedrich on how technology will reduce a...
74 min
772
Ben Thompson on how to make it in media in 2016
91 min
773
Ben Thompson on how the media business is changing
91 min
774
Grover Norquist explains what it takes to chang...
84 min
775
Neera Tanden on what it's like to work for Hill...
66 min