Coleman Hughes - Quillette

The Optimistic Space Between Black and White

Reflecting on "The Case for Black Optimism" by Coleman Hughes

Megan Gafford

3 Feb 2024 · 6 min read

Quillette Podcast 47 – Highlights from the 2019 Heterodox Academy Conference

Jonathan Kay presents highlights from this year’s Heterodox Academy conference, featuring Steven Pinker, Karith Foster, Jennifer Collins Bloomquist, Dan Mogulof, Lara Schwartz, Brandon Calhoun and Coleman Hughes.

Quillette

31 Jul 2019 · 1 min read

Quillette Podcast 39 – Coleman Hughes on His Reparations Testimony

Jonathan Kay talks to Coleman Hughes about what it was like testifying to Congress about reparations and the reaction his testimony has received. Coleman wrote an article for Quillette about why he’s opposed to reparations in March of this year.

Quillette / Jonathan Kay

24 Jun 2019 · 1 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

Quillette Podcast 6 - Coleman Hughes on Progressive Orthodoxy in the Ivy League

Canadian editor Jonathan Kay talks to Coleman Hughes, Quillette columnist and Columbia University student, about being out of step with the prevailing orthodoxy at an Ivy League college, classical liberalism and playing in Rihanna’s backup band in 2016.

Quillette

13 Dec 2018 · 1 min read