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.
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Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, and connecting newsrooms
2016-08-09 • 1h 25min
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, and indie music
2016-08-02 • 1h 39min
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show
2016-07-26 • 1h 18min
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how the Republican Party lost its way
2016-07-19 • 1h 19min
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.
2016-07-12 • 48min
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the science of flavor
2016-07-05 • 46min
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong about racism
2016-06-28 • 1h 19min
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lessons, and interrogating strangers
2016-06-21 • 1h 3min
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, and modern feminism
2016-06-14 • 1h 13min
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art
2016-06-07 • 1h 35s
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez
2016-05-31 • 1h 9min
Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing political correctness, and Donald Trump
2016-05-24 • 1h 56min
Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks
2016-05-17 • 1h 9s
Arianna Huffington on sleep, death, and social media
2016-05-10 • 1h 26min
Robert Reich on supporting Bernie Sanders, dating Hillary Clinton, and fighting inequality
2016-05-03 • 1h 44min
Bruce Friedrich on how technology will reduce animal suffering
2016-04-26 • 1h 19min
Ben Thompson on how to make it in media in 2016
2016-04-19 • 1h 37min
Ben Thompson on how the media business is changing
2016-04-19 • 1h 37min
Grover Norquist explains what it takes to change American politics
2016-04-12 • 1h 30min
Neera Tanden on what it's like to work for Hillary Clinton
2016-04-05 • 1h 11min
David Chang, head of the Momofuku empire
2016-03-29 • 1h 28min
Cory Booker on the spiritual dimension of politics
2016-03-22 • 1h 50min
Michael Needham on the Republican Party's crack-up
2016-03-15 • 1h 13min
Jim Yong Kim on revolutionizing how we treat the world's poor
2016-03-08 • 1h 17min
Theda Skocpol on how political scientists think differently about politics
2016-03-01 • 1h 3min
Bill Gates on stopping climate change, building robots, and the best books he's read
2016-02-23 • 44min
How lobbying works, with super-lobbyist Tony Podesta
2016-02-16 • 59min
Rachel Maddow on skinhead rallies, AIDS activism, and why she doesn't read op-eds
2016-02-09 • 1h 46min