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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 all fair game. If you're done with hot takes and hungry for real-talk, come join the conversation.
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- 1 weeks ago59 min
Konstantin Kisin: France’s Chaos Is Coming for Britain
France is burning, and Konstantin Kisin thinks the violence roiling the country is just the tip of the iceberg. Kisin, co-host of the Triggernometry podcast and author of An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West, argues the current unrest is the predictable outcome of decades of mass immigration, without any systemic process for integration. Leaders’ dogged embrace of multiculturalism—even as their own citizens increasingly questioned it—ultimately cost the nation its shared identity, the very thing that holds a society together. And when tensions spill over into neighboring countries, as they inevitably will, it may well prove the continent’s undoing. Kisin also shares his thoughts on the chaos wrought by Europe’s welfare system, the folly of its climate policy, and the eventual outcome of Russia’s war in Ukraine. This episode featured audience questions from The Free Press Forum, a platform for subscribers to connect with other Free Pressers. Head to TheFP.com/Forum to join the conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 2 weeks ago45 min
Do Great Men Actually Matter? With Jared Diamond
Did any single man change the course of the 20th century? Jared Diamond, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, says the biographies can’t answer that, but the data can. He walks us through Winston Churchill’s dayslong fight to keep Britain in the war, Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore, John F. Kennedy’s brinkmanship in Cuba, and Joseph Stalin’s response to Adolf Hitler’s invasion. Then he explains why basketball coaches are the best laboratory we have for measuring what a leader really changes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 2 weeks ago1h 13m
The Bible Story Every Atheist Should Read, with Megan Phelps-Roper
Megan Phelps-Roper grew up as the public face of the Westboro Baptist Church, the hate group founded by her grandfather, known for picketing veterans’ funerals with signs condemning gay people and Jews. She left the church in 2012 after a series of Twitter conversations exposed cracks in its theology she could no longer ignore. Since then, she’s built a new career exploring faith, belief, and public discourse from multiple angles, including as host of The Free Press’s The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling. Now, somewhat surprisingly, she’s launched a new podcast called Book Keeper, where she returns to Bible stories she grew up with and tries to figure out which parts of them still hold up, and which don’t. She joins Coleman Hughes to talk through the exact verse that unraveled her worldview, why she still reads Scripture to her kids despite not believing in God, and why she thinks a society that abandons fixed values is just as dangerous as one that enforces the wrong ones. Book Keeper is a Longview original series. Listen at longview.report/bookkeeper For the Bart Ehrman lecture that Coleman mentioned in the show, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CU1EZv-pFo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 4 weeks ago1h 43m
Inside Israel’s War Room: What Really Happened After October 7
Elliot Kaufman’s new book, In the War Room, is an inside account of how Israel actually fought the war that followed October 7, 2023. A Wall Street Journal editorial writer, Kaufman spent the last two years reporting on the conflict and drew on documents recovered from Hamas, along with behind-the-scenes access to Israel’s top political, military, and intelligence leaders, to reconstruct decisions most of the public never saw. Kaufman explains why Hamas sincerely believed it could destroy Israel, why Hezbollah never launched the full-scale invasion Israel feared most, and why the bitter, often personal rivalry between Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant, and Benny Gantz shaped nearly every major decision of the war. He also walks through what he considers Israel’s biggest unforced error—the two-month aid stoppage that fueled a global famine narrative—and how the war ultimately reshaped Hezbollah, Iran’s nuclear program, and the future of the Abraham Accords. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Sep 28, 20261h 2m
The Real Reason the Black Family Fell Apart
Delano Squires spent 15 years working in D.C. government, including a stint in the city’s office of gun violence prevention, where he noticed the same story on repeat: Young black men were both victims and perpetrators of some of the worst crimes in the city. In his new book, The Vanishing Black Family, he argues that family structure, not policing, incarceration, or education policy, is the most consequential and least discussed driver of racial inequality in America today. Squires makes the case that slavery deformed the black family but didn’t destroy it, and that the real collapse came later, driven by the expansion of the welfare state and the rise of second-wave feminism. He joins Coleman Hughes to talk through the data, the history, and why he thinks black institutions, from churches to civil rights organizations, have avoided the issue entirely. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Sep 21, 202657 min
Roland Fryer on the Cost of Telling the Truth
Roland Fryer is a professor of economics at Harvard University, the youngest black academic ever to receive tenure there, and a recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal for his research on racial inequality, education, and policing. His findings have often put him at odds with progressive orthodoxy, and he’s paid a real price for it over the years, including death threats and a shot-out window over a program that simply paid kids to do well in school. Fryer returns to the show to talk with Coleman Hughes about the Jason Arday scandal, which he sees as a symptom of the same institutional cowardice he’s trying to fix. That’s the thinking behind his and Bill Ackman’s new venture, the Carob Trust Prize for Academic Courage, a $1 million prize designed to reward scholars willing to publish research academia is too afraid to touch. They also get into why elite universities avoid academic risk, what Fryer’s own research actually shows about race and intelligence, and how a stint doing stand-up comedy shaped the way he thinks about persuasion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Sep 17, 20261h 0m
The Lie at the Center of Antisemitism, with Dara Horn
Dara Horn is a novelist and essayist whose book People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present examined how contemporary culture sentimentalizes Jewish suffering while ignoring the fullness of Jewish life. Her new book, provocatively titled The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living, goes further, arguing that antisemitism isn’t an ordinary bigotry at all. It’s a lie, always the same lie in different disguises, that Jews are destroying whatever a given society values most. Recorded live onstage at the 92nd Street Y, New York City’s largest Jewish cultural center, she and Coleman Hughes cover why nobody, apparently including a sitting vice president, understands basic antisemitic terms like “blood libel,” and why she thinks curiosity, not debate, is the real antidote to losing a friend to conspiracy theories. The Free Press earns a commission from any purchases made through all book links in this article. For the first time in nearly a year, our Bari Weiss is returning to the stage for a rare sit-down discussion with renowned historian Simon Sebag Montefiore. The event is happening on October 1st in New York City. Limited tickets are on sale now at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bari-weiss-and-simon-sebag-montefiore-live-tickets-1999718620224?aff=oddtdtcreator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Sep 14, 20261h 24m
How Do You Talk a Klansman out of the Klan? Ask Daryl Davis.
Daryl Davis is a blues musician who has spent over 40 years doing something few people would attempt: sitting down with members of the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups, one on one, to ask them why they hate him. He’s been threatened, physically attacked, and called a race traitor by people on both sides. He’s also convinced over 200 Klansmen to leave their hate groups entirely—not by arguing them out of their beliefs, but by befriending them long enough for their own convictions to fall apart. He joins Coleman Hughes to talk about how he stays calm in the face of open racism, what white supremacists actually fear, why he refuses to give up on anyone, and what he thinks parents should and shouldn’t teach their kids about race. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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About 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 all fair game. If you're done with hot takes and hungry for real-talk, come join the conversation.
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