The Optimistic Space Between Black and White
Reflecting on "The Case for Black Optimism" by Coleman Hughes
Megan Gafford
· 6 min read
Coleman Hughes
A collection of 6 posts
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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 1 min read