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
David Frum on the 2016 election, and the long d...
92 min
752
Deborah Tannen on gendered speech, Hillary Clin...
89 min
753
Joseph Stiglitz on broken markets, bad trade de...
66 min
754
Let's talk about Hillary Clinton's policy ideas...
70 min
755
Francis Fukuyama on whether America's democracy...
67 min
756
Tyler Cowen interviews Ezra Klein about politic...
73 min
757
The best conversation I’ve had about the electi...
68 min
758
HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell on runnin...
43 min
759
Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is...
96 min
760
Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump ...
55 min
761
Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning...
91 min
762
W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twi...
88 min
763
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining conse...
90 min
764
Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conf...
86 min
765
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, a...
79 min
766
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
767
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min
768
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how th...
74 min
769
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
44 min
770
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the...
42 min
771
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong abou...
74 min
772
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lesson...
58 min
773
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, an...
68 min
774
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
55 min
775
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
63 min