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
Joseph Stiglitz on broken markets, bad trade de...
66 min
752
Let's talk about Hillary Clinton's policy ideas...
70 min
753
Francis Fukuyama on whether America's democracy...
67 min
754
Tyler Cowen interviews Ezra Klein about politic...
73 min
755
The best conversation I’ve had about the electi...
68 min
756
HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell on runnin...
43 min
757
Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is...
96 min
758
Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump ...
55 min
759
Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning...
91 min
760
W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twi...
88 min
761
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining conse...
90 min
762
Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conf...
86 min
763
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, a...
79 min
764
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
765
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min
766
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how th...
74 min
767
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
44 min
768
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the...
42 min
769
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong abou...
74 min
770
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lesson...
58 min
771
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, an...
68 min
772
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
55 min
773
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
63 min
774
Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing p...
111 min
775
Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks
54 min