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Conversations With Coleman

Conversations with Coleman is where deep thinkers and curious minds meet for sharp, surprising, and unfiltered chats. Hosted by Coleman Hughes, writer, thinker, and guy who asks the questions other people dodge - this podcast isn’t about debating. It’s about discovery. Politics, philosophy, race, culture, science: it’s all fair game. If you"re done with hot takes and hungry for real-talk, come join the conversation.

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01:40:22

Ron DeSantis' War on Wokeness with Kmele Foster,...

Conversations With Coleman ·

2023/02/24

Today's conversation is a roundtable with several guests instead of my usual one on one. My guests today are Kmele Foster (Co-Founder of Free Think and Host of The Fifth Column Podcast), Chloé Valdary (Founder of Theory of Enchantment and Host of The Heart Speaks Podcast), and David Bernstein (Author of the recent book "Woke Antisemitism").We discuss Ron DeSantis' and Chris Rufo's war on wokeness. We discuss Kmele's position on race abolition. We talk about the relationship between Black and Jewish

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01:26:21

Trans Rights vs. Women's Rights with Kathleen Stock

Conversations With Coleman ·

2023/02/17

My guest today is Kathleen Stock. Kathleen is a philosopher and a writer, and she was a philosophy professor at the University of Sussex for many years, until she was stampeded out of her job by a mob of angry students. As you'll hear in this episode, Kathleen's main offense was her views on trans issues, which are broadly aligned with people like JK Rowling and Helen Joyce. Due to these critiques of Trans activist ideology, she was more or less run out of her university. Kathleen's story didn't

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01:28:16

The History and Ethics of the Israel-Palestine...

Conversations With Coleman ·

2023/02/10

The topic of today's episode is the Israel-Palestine conflict. I've avoided discussing Israel on this podcast for two reasons. First, because I didn't know enough to feel qualified to weigh in on it. Second, because it may literally be the most radioactive topic on planet Earth. A tiny mistake or misplace word can cause a level of backlash that I just don't want to deal with. However, two things have changed over the past few months. I discuss these two factors in detail in the first few minutes of

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01:23:38

Race & Inequality Across the Pond with Inaya Folarin...

Conversations With Coleman ·

2023/02/03

My guest today is Inaya Folarin Iman. Inaya is the founder of The Equiano Project, a British organization dedicated to promoting free speech, common humanity, and universalism. She recently organized a conference called "Towards the Common Good" hosted at Cambridge, where John McWhorter, Glenn Loury, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and yours truly, spoke along with a host of British thinkers who are fighting in the same trenches that people like John, Glenn, Thomas and myself are. Inaya is one of the

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01:13:09

Defeating the Race Baiters with Freddie Sayers

Conversations With Coleman ·

2023/02/02

This is a recording of a live event that I did in London with Freddie Sayers. Freddie is the former editor-in-chief of YouGov, the founder of Politics Home, and the executive editor of UnHerd, which is a great publication you should all be reading.So Freddie ran this conversation, and we covered lots of ground. We talk about American race politics. We discuss the legacy of Black Lives Matter. We talk about how to tackle divisive, race-centered ideologies. I really enjoyed this conversation, and

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01:08:53

Is the Royal Family Racist? with Andrew Gold

Conversations With Coleman ·

2023/01/26

My guest today is Andrew Gold. Andrew Gold is an ex-BBC journalist and documentary filmmaker, who now has an excellent podcast called "On The Edge". Andrew focuses on weird and controversial people, for instance, psychopaths, former cult members, exorcists, and so forth.In this episode, we discuss Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's decision to leave the UK and the accusation of racism they leveled at the royal family on the way out. We discuss the Israel - Palestine conflict. We talk about the

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01:14:33

Jihad Rehab: A Tale of Cancellation with Meg Smaker

Conversations With Coleman ·

2023/01/20

Welcome to the first Conversations with Coleman of 2023.We're starting things off right with a great guest, Meg Smaker. If you've heard of Meg, it's probably because of the controversy surrounding her new documentary, originally called "Jihad Rehab", but later changed to "The Unredacted". Now, before I describe the controversy to you, I want to first say that this is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen in my life, hands down, and it was initially received that way at the Sundance Film

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00:12:21

Actually Color Blindness Isn't Racist | Essay

Conversations With Coleman ·

2023/01/17

In this special video essay, I share my thoughts on the long-running national debate on color blindness.Check out the full article on my Substack - https://colemanhughes.substack.com

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00:37:35

Best of Season 3 - Highlight Reel

Conversations With Coleman ·

2022/12/24

Welcome to the final Conversations with Coleman episode of the year.I want to thank everyone for all the incredible support this year.It's been a great year for the podcast, and I have all of you, especially those of you who support the show to thank for that.In this final episode, my producer has put together some of the best moments from the podcast over this last year.I hope you all enjoy this year-end highlight reel and of course, wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and

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01:24:27

The Problem of Democracy with Shadi Hamid (S3 Ep.41)

Conversations With Coleman ·

2022/12/17

My guest today is Shadi Hamid. Shadi is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. He was named one of the world's top 50 thinkers in 2019 by Prospect Magazine. Shadi is also the author of three books, Temptations of Power, Islamic Exceptionalism, and The Problem of Democracy, which will be the primary subject of this conversation.Shadi and I talk about the difference between liberal democracy and democracy, full stop. We discuss Shadi's concept of

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01:00:33

Elites And Experts with David Sacks (S3 Ep.40)

Conversations With Coleman ·

2022/12/10

My guest today is David Sacks. David is an entrepreneur, tech investor, film producer, and the co-host of the All-In podcast, which I highly recommend. He's General Partner at Craft Ventures, a venture capital firm he co-founded. David was the founding CEO of PayPal, which makes him a part of the so-called PayPal Mafia, which includes folks like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. He was an angel investor in Facebook, Uber, SpaceX, Airbnb, and many other successful companies. He also produced the film "Thank

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00:54:08

Can We Trust AI? with Rama Chellappa (S3 Ep.39)

Conversations With Coleman ·

2022/12/03

My guest today is Rama Chellappa. Rama Chellappa is a professor at Johns Hopkins University. He's a chief scientist at the Johns Hopkins Institute for assured autonomy. Before that, Rama was an assistant Associate Professor and later became the director of the University of Southern California Signal and Image Processing Institute. Rama is also the author of the book "Can We Trust AI?"This episode is all about artificial intelligence. Several recent stories about AI have shocked and worried me. We

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00:46:14

Snitches Get Stitches with Alexandra Natapoff (S3 Ep.38)

Conversations With Coleman ·

2022/11/20

My guest today is Professor Alexandra Natapoff. Alexandra is a law professor at Harvard University. She writes about criminal courts, public defense, plea bargaining, wrongful convictions, and race and inequality in the criminal justice system. Her new book, which is an expanded edition of her older book is called "Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice"In this episode, Alexandra and I discuss a phenomenon that's rarely encountered outside of shows like The Sopranos and

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00:54:18

The Death of The American Coalition with Tim Shenk...

Conversations With Coleman ·

2022/11/11

My guest today is Timothy Shenk. Tim is a historian at George Washington University and a co-editor at Dissent magazine. He has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, London Review of Books, The Nation, The New Republic, and Jacobin, among other publications. Tim is also the author of the book "Realigners: Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries, and the Struggle to Rule American Democracy".In this episode, Tim and I discuss the book that President Obama wrote in the 90s, but never

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00:53:22

The Art Of Storytelling with Christopher Paolini (S3...

Conversations With Coleman ·

2022/10/28

Today I have a different kind of guest than I usually do. He's a fantasy and sci-fi author by the name of Christopher Paolini. You may be aware of his best-selling young adult fantasy book Eragon, which he wrote at the age of 15 and was also made into a major-budget film. The rest of the books in that series are Eldest, Brisingr, and Inheritance. You may also be aware of his more recent sci-fi novel called "To Sleep in a Sea of Stars". I've been a huge fan of Christopher for a very long time, and it

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01:02:14

Drowning In Debt With Josh Mitchell (S3 Ep.35)

Conversations With Coleman ·

2022/10/21

My guest today is Josh Mitchell. Josh is a Wall Street Journal reporter who covers debt and finance. His book is called "The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe" and it was named one of the best books of 2021 by both NPR and The New York Post. In this episode, Josh and I talk about the history of government involvement in student loans. We discuss the reasons why college tuition has been soaring since the 1980s. We talk about the value of a four-year college degree. We talk

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00:52:14

The Art Of Meditation with Samaneri Jayasāra (S3 Ep.34)

Conversations With Coleman ·

2022/10/14

My guest today is Samaneri Jayasāra. Samaneri is a Buddhist nun and spiritual teacher. Her YouTube channel where she shares her lectures has over 80,000 subscribers. In this episode, Samaneri and I discuss the purpose of meditation, the true nature of emotions, the core teachings of Buddhism, the illusion of boredom, the difference between Buddhism and the Abrahamic religions, the possibility of enlightenment, the cycle of pleasure and pain, and much more.SPONSORSBUTCHERBOX: Sign up today at

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01:03:07

Music, Movies, And Innovation With Ted Gioia (S3 Ep.33)

Conversations With Coleman ·

2022/10/07

My guest today is Ted Gioia. Ted is a musician and an author. He's written 11 books including his latest, which is called "Music: A Subversive History". He's been on the faculty at Stanford, and he's been published in the New York Times, the LA Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many other newspapers. In this episode, Ted and I talk about why human beings enjoy music from an evolutionary perspective. We discuss the evolution of recorded music from the analog age to the present. We talk about Ted's

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00:34:51

Understanding the Iranian Protests with Maryam...

Conversations With Coleman ·

2022/10/01

My guest today is Maryam Namazie. Maryam is an Iranian-born writer and activist living in the UK. She's the spokesperson of "One Law for All" and "The Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain". She has co-authored many books, including "Sharia Law in Britain: A Threat to One Law for All and Equal Rights", "Enemies Not Allies: The Far-Right" and "Political and Legal Status of Apostates in Islam".This episode is all about the current uprising in Iran. Miriam and I talk about the death of Masa Amini in police

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01:07:00

Of Boys And Men with Richard Reeves (S3 Ep.31)

Conversations With Coleman ·

2022/09/23

My guest today is Richard Reeves. Richard Reeves is a Senior Fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institute, where His research focuses on social mobility, inequality, and the middle class. Richard's new book is called "Of boys and men" and it's all about the specific problems facing men in American society. In this episode, Richard and I talk about whether there's any need to address male-specific problems in the first place. We discuss whether gender differences come from nature or nurture

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