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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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72:12

How Cuba Propped Up Maduro

Conversations With Coleman ·

2026/01/08

I’m joined by Gelet Martínez Fragela, a Cuban activist and journalist and a close watcher of Venezuela who’s tracked how authoritarianism hollowed out a once prosperous country.We talk about the warning signs, the lies that sustained the regime, and why President Maduro’s trial in the United States matters far beyond Venezuelan borders. Gelet also answers the question: Why were Cubans responsible for guarding President Maduro? And how will the country function in the wake of the U.S.’s shock

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81:02

Is There a Science to Finding Love?

Conversations With Coleman ·

2026/01/05

Dr. Anna Machin is a British evolutionary anthropologist at the University of Oxford who studies the neuroscience and psychology of love. Anna and I talk through what science actually says about attraction, attachment, and long-term relationships, and why so much modern dating advice gets human nature wrong. We get into dating apps and how they shape behavior, whether love at first sight is real, what attachment styles do and don’t explain, and what science says about polyamory. We also discuss

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50:11

Coleman Hughes Answers Your End-of-Year Questions

Conversations With Coleman ·

2025/12/22

My producer Poppy Damon and I are back for another Ask Me Anything. In this bonus episode, I answer your questions on President Donald Trump and the attention economy, declining birth rates, psychedelics and mental health, AI and the future of work, social media and kids, religion, meritocracy, and more. As 2025 wraps up, it felt like a good moment to step back, take stock, and talk through the questions many of you have been thinking about. Thanks for listening this year—and here’s to more

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68:57

What Happens After Trump?: Why Tim Miller Thinks...

Conversations With Coleman ·

2025/12/15

Tim Miller is a political commentator and former GOP strategist who became one of the most outspoken “‘Never Trump”’ conservatives in the country. Tim and I talk through the Republican Party’s transformation, from the guardrails John McCain tried to hold in place, to the anger and conspiratorial thinking that helped fuel Donald Trump’s rise. We get into what it was like to be an openly gay Republican in the 2000s, why Trump’s favorability is collapsing, and the administration’s bizarre new policy of

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69:57

Big Tech Made Peace with Trump. Reid Hoffman Didn’t.

Conversations With Coleman ·

2025/12/08

My guest today is entrepreneur and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. He’s now facing something most tech business people never imagine: being personally targeted by a sitting president’s Department of Justice. Reid and I talk through the rise of politically motivated prosecutions, the erosion of trust in institutions, and how social media and AI have accelerated our collective slide into suspicion. We get into deepfakes, vaccine skepticism, the inequality debate, and whether billionaires should

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63:12

Did Trump Win Over Black Men or Did the Democrats...

Conversations With Coleman ·

2025/11/17

Today I sit down with journalist Astead Herndon, whose award-winning political reporting has appeared in The New York Times, on CNN, and now in Vox, where he serves as editorial director.Astead and I explore how President Donald Trump’s 2016 victory reshaped our own views of American politics. We disagree—cordially—about how much of Trump’s rise was driven by racism, and what that moment revealed about the country. From there, we discuss why more black voters have been moving to the right, and

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73:11

Victor Davis Hanson on Tucker, Trump, and the...

Conversations With Coleman ·

2025/11/10

My guest today is Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist, military historian, and senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. Victor is one of the most articulate defenders of Donald Trump, and one of the few people willing to explain why millions of Americans still see him as a necessary corrective rather than a danger.We talk about how his years farming in California shaped his politics, how “lawfare” now cuts both ways, and why so many conservatives feel the system has turned against them. We

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1:28

Trailer | Spiral: Murder in Detroit

Conversations With Coleman ·

2025/10/21

On October 21, 2023, beloved Detroit community leader Samantha Woll was found brutally stabbed to death outside her home—two weeks to the day after the October 7 attacks on Israel. It looks like an open-and-shut case—a hate crime. But swiftly the police rule that out. Instead they eventually find themselves with two unrelated suspects. When they charge one with murder, the case takes a turn that raises questions about antisemitism, race, and justice in America.Hosted by The Free Press’s Frannie

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32:44

Understanding the Black Conservative Vote with...

Conversations With Coleman ·

2025/09/20

In this mini episode, I’m joined by Janiyah Thomas, the Black Media Director for Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign. We talk about Charlie Kirk's assasination, Jimmy Kimmel being pulled off the air, Trump’s National Guard deployment in D.C., and how Janiyah helped Trump win over black voters. If you enjoy these shorter episodes, let me know and maybe we’ll do more. Don’t forget, a full-length episode will be back on Monday!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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84:12

Can Socialism Ever Really Work? w/ Bhaskar Sunkara

Conversations With Coleman ·

2025/09/15

My guest today is Bhaskar Sunkara. He’s the founding editor of Jacobin magazine and currently serves as president at The Nation. Bhaskar is a proud democratic socialist; he was even vice-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, and he’s the author of a book titled The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality. In this conversation, we dive into the practicality of democratic socialism. We talk about rent controls, the affordability crisis in American

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65:18

How Sensitivity Readers Made Publishing More Racist...

Conversations With Coleman ·

2025/08/18

This week on Conversations with Coleman, I’m joined by writer and cultural critic Adam Szetela, author of That Book Is Dangerous!, a trenchant look at how moral panic, social media, and identity-driven outrage are reshaping the publishing industry. We discuss the rise of so-called sensitivity readers who vet books to ensure they are as inoffensive as possible, and how an obsession with controlling representation of minorities is narrowing creative freedom and silencing risk-taking voices. Adam

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52:32

Eric Adams to Cuomo: ‘Get Out’ and Let Me Beat Mamdani

Conversations With Coleman ·

2025/07/08

New York City’s mayor on Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo; socialism and corruption; policing and power; rats and redemption. New York City mayor Eric Adams has had a controversial time in office. So why should New Yorkers trust him for another four years? In this episode, we talk about Adams’ criticisms of Zohran Mamdani, his call to Andrew Cuomo to step aside, and yes: rats, e-bikes, and trash. Adams also opens up about the police beating him as a teen, and how that moment shaped his life

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74:43

The Secret To A Fulfilling Life (Backed by Science)...

Conversations With Coleman ·

2025/06/30

I’m joined this week by someone who asks questions maybe all of us don’t ask enough: How do we become happier? And how do we date people we disagree with? And maybe most importantly: Why do people feel they are living lives without meaning? And how do we solve this? My guest is Arthur C. Brooks, a Harvard professor, a best-selling author, a social scientist, and a co-author (with Oprah, no less) of Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier. Arthur has spent decades studying

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70:59

The Right Way To Be A Skeptic w/ Tim Urban

Conversations With Coleman ·

2025/06/23

This week I sit down with writer and thinker Tim Urban, creator of the blog Wait But Why to talk: political polarization, AI, university campuses and even dating. Tim brings his trademark clarity and curiosity to a conversation that covers the rise of tribal thinking, the challenge of nuance in a viral world, and how humanity can navigate the information overload of the digital age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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78:58

The Roots of Iran’s Nuclear Program w/ Mark Dubowitz

Conversations With Coleman ·

2025/06/16

Mark Dubowitz, CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, has long focused on Iran’s nuclear ambitions and advised multiple U.S. administrations on policy toward Iran. I invited him on Conversations with Coleman to explain the Iran nuclear issue at a deep level.We discussed the science of uranium enrichment, the differing Obama, Trump, and Biden policies on containment, and the history of Iran’s nuclear ambitions from the 1979 Revolution to today. Mark laid out the stakes of preventing a

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01:10:48

The Life of a Black Conservative w/Glenn Loury

Conversations With Coleman ·

2024/08/09

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01:16:33

The Folly of Progressivism with Nellie Bowles

Conversations With Coleman ·

2024/06/20

Buy Nellie's book here: https://a.co/d/09QQ9O52Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/ColemanHughes00:00 Introduction and Nelly Bowles' Background11:07 The Reality of Homelessness and Drug Addiction32:59 The Idealism and Limitations of Progressive Movements39:02 Human Nature and Failed Systems46:06 Origins and Evolution of Antifa in Seattle and Portland57:47 Corruption and Lack of Scrutiny in the Black Lives Matter Movement01:09:32 Decline of Left-Wing Political Comedy and Rise of New

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00:56:36

Feminism Under The Microscope with Mary Harrington

Conversations With Coleman ·

2023/12/23

My guest today is Mary Harrington. Mary is a writer and contributing editor at UnHerd. She's the author of a great book called Feminism Against Progress. In this episode, we talk about her general critique of feminism, we talk about what she calls progress theology, we talk about the changing social status of motherhood, we talk about the Barbie movie, gender dysphoria, and much moreMary's Book - Feminism against Progress Check out New Merch - https://merchandise.colemanhughes.org

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01:07:56

Why? The Purpose of the Universe with Philip Goff

Conversations With Coleman ·

2023/12/20

My guest today is Philip Goff. Philip is a philosophy professor at Durham University. He's the author of Galileo's Error and Why the Purpose of the Universe.Philip believes that science gives us objective reasons to believe that there's value in the universe and he comes at this from a very different angle than say Sam Harris, who reaches the same conclusion for different reasons in his book, The Moral Landscape. Philip relies heavily on the so-called fine tuning argument. So we talk a lot about

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00:44:59

All Things China with Cindy Yu

Conversations With Coleman ·

2023/12/13

My guest today is Cindy Yu. Cindy Yu is an assistant editor at the Spectator Magazine, and she's the host of the "Chinese Whispers" podcast, which is actually one of my favorite podcasts.We talk about whether China will invade Taiwan. We talk about whether the West should adopt a Cold War-like mentality towards China. We discuss the phenomenon of Chinese espionage in the West. We talk about the wave of immigration from Hong Kong into the UK. We discuss the nosedive in China's birthrate over the past

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