Conversations with Coleman

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.

Episodes

This Is How AI Starts a Nuclear War

August 24, 2026 • 69 mins

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 can’t afford to fail: whether we can finally get past the tribalism that’s defined most of our history. He joins Coleman Hughes to walk through a real scenario where competition between the U.S. and China over AI dominance escalates into an ar...

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The Lie That Killed Comedy for a Decade, with The Babylon Bee’s Seth Dillon

August 17, 2026 • 74 mins

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 that comedy is one of the best weapons against ideas unable to survive scrutiny. He also warns that a new problem has arisen. While the culture has moved on from the joyless era of a few years ago, there is now a complete disregard for the truth, w...

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Rep. Ro Khanna on Progressive Capitalism, Gaza, and 2028

August 10, 2026 • 54 mins

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 his home state of Pennsylvania–not just tech wealth. He calls it progressive capitalism, and he thinks it’s the platform that beats both Donald Trump’s economic nationalism and the socialism of the party’s left f...

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Democrats Need to Ditch ‘Loser Politics,’ with Matthew Yglesias

August 3, 2026 • 82 mins

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 decade making it harder and harder to tell. He cofounded Vox and writes the essential Slow Boring Substack. He has been one of the most consistent voices calling for a Democratic politics that is practical and winnable. He joins Coleman Hughes to make that ca...

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The Real Reason Americans Are So Sick, with Jillian Michaels

July 27, 2026 • 76 mins

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 that America’s obesity crisis is not a failure of willpower but the predictable result of a food industry designed to addict and a pharmaceutical industry designed to profit. They get into Ozempic and why taking it for vanity reasons is a catastrophic...

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The Charlie Kirk Killing and America’s Forgotten History of Left-Wing Terror

July 20, 2026 • 62 mins

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 forgotten history in America. He joins Coleman Hughes to argue that the commonly held belief that political violence is largely a right-wing phenomenon is not just inaccurate but actively dangerous. He believes America has forgotten a century’s worth ...

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In Defense of Elites, with Richard Hanania

July 13, 2026 • 79 mins

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, for all their appeal, tend to make countries worse. He joins Coleman to talk about who elites actually are and why they’re usually right, even when they’re sometimes spectacularly wrong. They also get into what expla...

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Dr. Cornel West: Is America Living Up to Its Promise?

July 6, 2026 • 71 mins

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 this country is and what it ought to be. He joins Coleman on the 250th anniversary of the founding to get into the state of America in 2026. They get into the founding contradictions, the ethics of manifest destiny, what Americ...

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Douglas Murray: The Iranian Regime Means What It Says

June 25, 2026 • 63 mins

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 of a regime that has been openly stating its intentions for decades, and a West that keeps refusing to believe them. And they cover what the resignation of British prime minister Keir Starmer reveals about a country that voted fo...

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Caitlin Flanagan: Why I Finally Left Los Angeles

June 22, 2026 • 64 mins

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 enough, and tells Coleman why. The answer says a lot about what progressive governance has done to one of America’s great cities. From there they get into territory Flanagan knows well: the state of marriage, the dating crisis, ...

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Coleman Hughes vs. Peter Beinart Debate: Should Israel Be a Jewish State?

June 15, 2026 • 104 mins

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 position, arriving at the view that Israel cannot be reconciled with the principle of equality under the law. His most recent book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, caused shock waves in the Jewish world. In this conversatio...

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Is America’s Racial Reckoning Over? With John McWhorter

June 8, 2026 • 68 mins

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 black men are increasingly voting Republican, how mass immigration has subtly shifted the conversation on race, and what the Supreme Court's recent Voting Rights Act decision actually means. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...

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Why You Shouldn’t Be Scared of AI

June 1, 2026 • 57 mins

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 eventually became a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. Along the way he developed an obsession with the history of finance, which led to his upcoming book, A Brief History of Financial Bubbles. He joined Coleman to talk about what the ...

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What People Who Choose Assisted Death Actually Say

May 26, 2026 • 62 mins

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, with disabilities, and potentially those with mental illness as the sole underlying condition. Rupa Subramanya, The Free Press’s Canada correspondent, has spent years reporting on this slippery slope, int...

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Michael Shellenberger on the Psychology of Left-Wing Violence

May 18, 2026 • 61 mins

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 episode, he and Coleman dig into the Epstein story and why the evidence falls far short of the conspiracy theory most people believe; the savior complex he sees underlying progressive politics and its connection to recent left- wing v...

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The War Before the War: What Everyone Gets Wrong About Israel-Palestine

May 11, 2026 • 69 mins

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Walter Russell Mead on Christian Zionism, the ‘Israel Lobby’ Myth, and the Psychology of Antisemitism

May 4, 2026 • 62 mins

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 scholars, traces the real answer back to 17th-century Calvinist theology, and argues that Christian Zionists were advocating for a Jewish homeland long before most Jews were. Mead joins the show to make the case that the famous...

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The Case for Drinking Alcohol

April 27, 2026 • 72 mins

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 Stumbled Our Way to Civilization, the University of British Columbia professor argues that alcohol has functioned for thousands of years as humanity's most important social lubricant, and that the modern war on drinking is costing us something...

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Who Decides What’s True on Wikipedia?

April 20, 2026 • 62 mins

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 Times got major stories wrong across decades of reporting. Now he turns his attention to Wikipedia, the internet’s default encyclopedia and one of the most influential sources of information in the world. Rindsberg finds that whil...

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Help Us Win the Internet’s Highest Honor

April 16, 2026 • 25 secs

Click this link, make an account, and vote for Conversations with Coleman! ⁠https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2026/podcasts/individual-episode/interview-or-talk-show⁠ Hi guys, Coleman here, sharing some exciting news: Conversations with Coleman has been nominated for a Webby Award. This is the internet’s highest honor, and we need your help to get over the finish line! I am currently in second place in the &ldqu...

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Episodes

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Rep. Ro Khanna on Progressive Capitalism, Gaza, and 2028

Democrats Need to Ditch ‘Loser Politics,’ with Matthew Yglesias

The Real Reason Americans Are So Sick, with Jillian Michaels

The Charlie Kirk Killing and America’s Forgotten History of Left-Wing Terror

In Defense of Elites, with Richard Hanania

Dr. Cornel West: Is America Living Up to Its Promise?

Douglas Murray: The Iranian Regime Means What It Says

Caitlin Flanagan: Why I Finally Left Los Angeles

Coleman Hughes vs. Peter Beinart Debate: Should Israel Be a Jewish State?

Is America’s Racial Reckoning Over? With John McWhorter

Why You Shouldn’t Be Scared of AI

What People Who Choose Assisted Death Actually Say

Michael Shellenberger on the Psychology of Left-Wing Violence

The War Before the War: What Everyone Gets Wrong About Israel-Palestine

Walter Russell Mead on Christian Zionism, the ‘Israel Lobby’ Myth, and the Psychology of Antisemitism

The Case for Drinking Alcohol

Who Decides What’s True on Wikipedia?

Help Us Win the Internet’s Highest Honor

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This Is How AI Starts a Nuclear War

The Lie That Killed Comedy for a Decade, with The Babylon Bee’s Seth Dillon