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
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, an...
94 min
777
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
73 min
778
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how th...
74 min
779
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
44 min
780
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the...
42 min
781
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong abou...
74 min
782
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lesson...
58 min
783
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, an...
68 min
784
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
55 min
785
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
63 min
786
Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing p...
111 min
787
Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks
54 min
788
Arianna Huffington on sleep, death, and social ...
81 min
789
Robert Reich on supporting Bernie Sanders, dati...
98 min
790
Bruce Friedrich on how technology will reduce a...
74 min
791
Ben Thompson on how to make it in media in 2016
91 min
792
Ben Thompson on how the media business is changing
91 min
793
Grover Norquist explains what it takes to chang...
84 min
794
Neera Tanden on what it's like to work for Hill...
66 min
795
David Chang, head of the Momofuku empire
82 min
796
Cory Booker on the spiritual dimension of politics
105 min
797
Michael Needham on the Republican Party's crack-up
68 min
798
Jim Yong Kim on revolutionizing how we treat th...
72 min
799
Theda Skocpol on how political scientists think...
57 min
800
Bill Gates on stopping climate change, building...
40 min