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