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