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