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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In Defense of Elites, with Richard Hanania
Jul 13, 2026
Richard Hanania is a political scientist, writer, and author of the new book Kakistocracy: Why Populism Ends in Disaster, which makes the sometimes uncomfortable case that antiestablishment politics…
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Dr. Cornel West: Is America Living Up to Its Promise?
Jul 06, 2026
Dr. Cornel West is one of the most distinct voices in American public life. He’s a philosopher, theologian, and moral critic who has spent decades asking the toughest questions about America—what…
Douglas Murray: The Iranian Regime Means What It Says
Jun 25, 2026
Douglas Murray is back as a columnist at The Free Press, and Coleman wastes no time putting him to work. They get into the Iran deal and why Murray thinks it won’t hold. They also dig into the nature…
Caitlin Flanagan: Why I Finally Left Los Angeles
Jun 22, 2026
Caitlin Flanagan joins the show today, now an official columnist at The Free Press. Flanagan, one of the sharpest essayists working today, spent 35 years in Los Angeles before deciding she’d had…
Coleman Hughes vs. Peter Beinart Debate: Should Israel Be a Jewish State?
Jun 15, 2026
Peter Beinart is a writer and author who has contributed to The New Republic, The Atlantic, and The New York Times. He grew up a committed Zionist and has spent the last decade publicly refuting that…
Is America’s Racial Reckoning Over? With John McWhorter
Jun 08, 2026
John McWhorter is back. This time, Coleman and John analyze where America stands on race in 2026, whether the woke moment is genuinely behind us, and what may have replaced it. They also get into why…
Why You Shouldn’t Be Scared of AI
Jun 01, 2026
Aman Verjee has had one of the more unusual careers in finance. He started on Wall Street at Lehman Brothers, joined PayPal in its earliest days and worked alongside Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, and…
What People Who Choose Assisted Death Actually Say
May 26, 2026
In 2016, Canada legalized assisted dying for the terminally ill. Since then, the law—medical assistance in dying, or MAID—has expanded dramatically—to people with chronic but non-terminal conditions…
Michael Shellenberger on the Psychology of Left-Wing Violence
May 18, 2026
Michael Shellenberger is the author of San Fransickco and Apocalypse Never. He’s a former progressive activist, and one of the most prominent advocates for nuclear energy in the country. In this…
The War Before the War: What Everyone Gets Wrong About Israel-Palestine
May 11, 2026
Oren Kessler explains the origins of Palestinian nationalism, the myth that Jews started the conflict in Israel, and why peace in the region has been elusive.
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Walter Russell Mead on Christian Zionism, the ‘Israel Lobby’ Myth, and the Psychology of Antisemitism
May 04, 2026
Why do Americans support Israel? The standard answers—D.C. lobbying, shared democratic values, strategic benefits—all miss something. Walter Russell Mead, one of America's foremost foreign policy…
The Case for Drinking Alcohol
Apr 27, 2026
Most researchers who study alcohol focus on what it does to your body. Edward Slingerland is more interested in what it does to your friendships. In his book Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and…
Who Decides What’s True on Wikipedia?
Apr 20, 2026
Ashley Rindsberg has spent years investigating how ideological bias corrupts institutions that present themselves as neutral arbiters of truth. His book The Gray Lady Winked exposed how The New York…
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The Liberal Case for American Power
Apr 13, 2026
Shadi Hamid once marched against the Iraq War, read Noam Chomsky, and believed America was the root of the world's problems. He has since changed his mind—though not entirely. Now a Washington Post…
What People Get Wrong About Birthright Citizenship
Apr 06, 2026
Linda Chavez has called herself the “Forrest Gump of Washington politics,” and it’'s hard to argue. She bumped into a Watergate burglar coming out of a bathroom in 1972, became the highest-ranking…
What Tyler Cowen Thinks About (Almost) Everything
Mar 30, 2026
This week, Tyler Cowen joins the show. A true polymath, he answers everything on Coleman Hughes’s mind about our world and its future. In this rapid-fire exchange, Tyler weighs in on whether AI is a…
Coleman Hughes and Glenn Greenwald Debate Israel’s Influence on Washington
Mar 25, 2026
Glenn Greenwald joins the show to debate a hotly contested topic: Does Israel influence U.S. policy? Coleman and Glenn examine competing claims about the power of the Israel lobby and whether it…
What Keeps Sam Harris Up At Night
Mar 23, 2026
In this episode, Sam Harris joins Coleman Hughes for a sweeping conversation about the biggest risks facing humanity. They unpack the ethical and strategic dilemmas of a potential Iran conflict, the…
The Forgotten History of Slavery in the Islamic World
Mar 16, 2026
Justin Marozzi is a historian and author of Captives and Companions, a sweeping history of slavery in the Islamic world. Marozzi and Coleman discuss the origins and scale of the Islamic slave trade…
He Wanted to Teach Western Civilization. So He Quit Harvard.
Mar 09, 2026
James Hankins is a Renaissance historian, longtime Harvard professor, and co-author of The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition. In this conversation with Coleman Hughes, he explains why…
Yuval Levin on What Conservatism Is for Today
Mar 02, 2026
What does conservatism mean in an age of populism, executive power, and institutional distrust? Yuval Levin is a political theorist, the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at…
Why Longer Prison Sentences Don’t Work
Feb 23, 2026
Is our criminal justice system broken, and can it be fixed? Jennifer Doleac is an economist, the executive vice president of criminal justice at Arnold Ventures, and the host of the Probable…
Is Your Life Morally Ambitious Enough?
Feb 16, 2026
Rutger Bregman is a Dutch historian and best-selling author of Utopia for Realists and Humankind: A Hopeful History. In 2019, he went viral for his takedown of billionaires at the World Economic…
YOU'RE INVITED: Coleman Hughes LIVE in Atlanta!
Feb 10, 2026
Come join a live taping of this podcast with special guests Ambassador Andrew Young and acclaimed Martin Luther King Jr. biographer Jonathan Eig to discuss: ‘Nonviolence in a Violent Age’.
WHEN…
Lionel Shriver on the Immigration Taboo
Feb 09, 2026
Acclaimed novelist and cultural critic Lionel Shriver joins the show to discuss her provocative new book A Better Life. We talk about why immigration has become one of the most morally charged topics…
Designer Babies and AI Jobs Are No Longer Sci-Fi
Feb 02, 2026
Jamie Metzl is a former national security official, biotech futurist, and one of the earliest public voices to argue that Covid likely came from a lab accident. Today he talks about why that…
Why Liberal Religion is Losing Ground
Jan 26, 2026
Our guest today is Rabbi David Wolpe. He’s spent decades debating atheists, leading one of the country’s largest synagogues, and thinking seriously about what holds a moral society together once…
The Real Reasons Greenland Matters
Jan 22, 2026
This week we hear from Arctic geopolitics expert Heather A. Conley, before President Trump made a speech at The World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday. Heather speaks about a place most of us…
YOU'RE INVITED: Michael Shermer LIVE with Coleman Hughes!
Jan 20, 2026
In a world where AI can recreate our voices, half the internet thinks the moon landing was staged, and every group chat has a cousin who’s “just asking questions,” the perceived line between fact and…
