Podcast #234: Coleman Hughes on Progressive ‘Neo-Racism’ Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to writer Coleman Hughes about his acclaimed new book, ‘The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America.’ Quillette / Coleman Hughes 28 Mar 2024 · 29 min read
Do COVID-19 Racial Disparities Matter? If anyone bothers to look, there will probably be disparities between Catholics and Protestants. Coleman Hughes 13 Apr 2020 · 5 min read
PODCAST 79: Coleman Hughes on the "1776" Project Quillette columnist Coleman Hughes on why he and some other prominent black intellectuals have created the “1776” project, a response to the New York Times‘s 1619 Project. Quillette recently published an article on the “1776” project by Wilfred Reilly, another of the people involved. Quillette / Coleman Hughes 29 Feb 2020 · 1 min read
Reflections on Intersectionality Different forms of suffering cannot easily be quantified and compared. Coleman Hughes 14 Jan 2020 · 7 min read
Why Do Progressives Hate Gentrification? One reason might be that they worry about the second kind of harm that accompanies gentrification: the changing culture and character of neighborhoods. Coleman Hughes 25 Nov 2019 · 7 min read
The Case for Black Optimism The narrative of doom and gloom is misleading. Coleman Hughes 28 Sep 2019 · 11 min read
My Testimony on Reparations Racism is a bloody stain on this country’s history, and I consider our failure to pay reparations directly to freed slaves after the Civil War to be one of the greatest injustices ever perpetrated by the U.S. government. Coleman Hughes 20 Jun 2019 · 4 min read
Rethinking Abortion Advocacy Arbitrary doesn’t mean random and it doesn’t mean cruel. Coleman Hughes 21 May 2019 · 8 min read
The High Price of Stale Grievances by Coleman Hughes Greg Ellis reads The High Price of Stale Grievances, Coleman Hughes’s essay about whether the historic injustices suffered by African-Americans is a good reason for holding them to different standards than Americans of European ancestry. It was published in Quillette on 5th June 2018. Quillette / Coleman Hughes 2 May 2019 · 1 min read
Quillette Podcast 29 – Coleman Hughes on an allegedly racist incident at Barnard College Jonathan Kay talks to Coleman Hughes about his latest Quillette article, which concerns an allegedly racist incident at Barnard College. Coleman, who is an undergraduate at Columbia, doesn’t think the Barnard employees involved are guilty of racism. Quillette / Coleman Hughes 23 Apr 2019 · 1 min read
Cowardice at Columbia If you find it implausible that a progressive women’s college in the middle of New York City is enforcing de facto Jim Crow at the security gate, your skepticism is warranted. Coleman Hughes 19 Apr 2019 · 7 min read
Reparations and Ta-Nehisi Coates's Pyrrhic Victory At bottom, the reparations debate is a debate about the relationship between history and ethics, between the past and the Good. Coleman Hughes 17 Mar 2019 · 14 min read
Tiers of Pride and Shame Pride and shame are two sides of the same coin; so if collective pride makes sense, then collective shame makes sense too Coleman Hughes 16 Jan 2019 · 7 min read
Tyler Cowen's Stubborn Attachments—A Review In a cultural landscape where partisan skirmishes regularly induce something approaching bloodlust on both sides of the political aisle, it’s safe to say that most Americans are roundly rejecting Cowen’s thesis at the moment. Coleman Hughes 21 Nov 2018 · 10 min read
Deepities and the Politics of Pseudo-Profundity The claim that “all politics is identity politics,” is not coherent. On one reading, it says something that’s true but irrelevant. And on another reading, it says something that’s false, but would be highly relevant if true. Coleman Hughes 16 Oct 2018 · 9 min read
