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
776
HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell on runnin...
43 min
777
Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is...
96 min
778
Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump ...
55 min
779
Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning...
91 min
780
W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twi...
88 min
781
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining conse...
90 min
782
Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conf...
86 min
783
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, a...
79 min
784
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
785
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min
786
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how th...
74 min
787
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
44 min
788
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the...
42 min
789
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong abou...
74 min
790
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lesson...
58 min
791
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, an...
68 min
792
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
55 min
793
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
63 min
794
Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing p...
111 min
795
Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks
54 min
796
Arianna Huffington on sleep, death, and social ...
81 min
797
Robert Reich on supporting Bernie Sanders, dati...
98 min
798
Bruce Friedrich on how technology will reduce a...
74 min
799
Ben Thompson on how to make it in media in 2016
91 min
800
Ben Thompson on how the media business is changing
91 min