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
751
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
752
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min
753
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how th...
74 min
754
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
44 min
755
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the...
42 min
756
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong abou...
74 min
757
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lesson...
58 min
758
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, an...
68 min
759
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
55 min
760
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
63 min
761
Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing p...
111 min
762
Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks
54 min
763
Arianna Huffington on sleep, death, and social ...
81 min
764
Robert Reich on supporting Bernie Sanders, dati...
98 min
765
Bruce Friedrich on how technology will reduce a...
74 min
766
Ben Thompson on how to make it in media in 2016
91 min
767
Ben Thompson on how the media business is changing
91 min
768
Grover Norquist explains what it takes to chang...
84 min
769
Neera Tanden on what it's like to work for Hill...
66 min
770
David Chang, head of the Momofuku empire
82 min
771
Cory Booker on the spiritual dimension of politics
105 min
772
Michael Needham on the Republican Party's crack-up
68 min
773
Jim Yong Kim on revolutionizing how we treat th...
72 min
774
Theda Skocpol on how political scientists think...
57 min
775
Bill Gates on stopping climate change, building...
40 min