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.
Latest episodes
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59 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 Immigr…
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45 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 biograp…
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1 h 13
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 condemnin…
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1 h 43
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, Kaufma…
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1 h 02
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…
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57 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 rese…
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1 h 00
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 ignor…
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1 h 24
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 grou…
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46 min
He Couldn’t Save His Brother on 9/11. He Spent the Next 25 Years Saving Others.
Frank Siller’s youngest brother, Stephen, was orphaned at 10, grew up to become a New York City firefighter, and was driving home from a night shift on the morning of September 11,…
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1 h 24
The Secret Recordings That Reveal How Presidents Really Think
Tim Naftali is a presidential historian who spent four years running the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. He’s listened to thousands of hours of secret Oval Office re…
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1 h 45
Nathan Cofnas on Race, IQ, and the Jason Arday Scandal That Made Him Famous
Nathan Cofnas is the academic researcher who broke the story alleging Jason Arday had fabricated his biography and plagiarized his PhD thesis, a scandal that led to Arday’s resigna…
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1 h 09
This Is How AI Starts a Nuclear War
Robert Wright has spent decades writing about human nature, evolution, and the forces that shape history. In his latest book, The God Test, he argues AI is forcing a test humanity…
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1 h 14
The Lie That Killed Comedy for a Decade, with The Babylon Bee’s Seth Dillon
Seth Dillon is the CEO of The Babylon Bee, a Christian satire site that’s been fact-checked and banned more times than most outlets twice its size. He joins Coleman Hughes to argue…
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55 min
Rep. Ro Khanna on Progressive Capitalism, Gaza, and 2028
Ro Khanna represents Silicon Valley in Congress, and he’s spent the last few years building a case that the Democratic Party’s future runs through places like Johnstown and Erie–in…
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1 h 22
Democrats Need to Ditch ‘Loser Politics,’ with Matthew Yglesias
Is there a meaningful difference between a commonsense Democrat and a center-right Republican? Matthew Yglesias thinks so. But he also thinks the Democrats have spent the last deca…
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1 h 16
The Real Reason Americans Are So Sick, with Jillian Michaels
Jillian Michaels is a fitness expert who has spent three decades helping people get healthy in a system that is actively working against them. She joins Coleman to make the case th…
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1 h 02
The Charlie Kirk Killing and America’s Forgotten History of Left-Wing Terror
Noah Rothman is a senior writer at National Review and author of the new book Blood & Progress, which makes the case that left-wing political violence has a long and largely forgot…
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1 h 19
In Defense of Elites, with Richard Hanania
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 antiesta…
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1 h 11
Dr. Cornel West: Is America Living Up to Its Promise?
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 abo…
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1 h 03
Douglas Murray: The Iranian Regime Means What It Says
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…