Coleman Hughes

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[Coleman Hughes @coldxman]

Today is the day!

My first book, "The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America," is now out in fine bookstores everywhere!

The Audiobook is read by yours truly!

https://t.co/61VkZ3ooM2

[Bradford G Smith (Brad) @ALScyborg]

Candid conversation on @coldxman with @JohnHMcWhorter: Has America’s intense racial reckoning finally ended? They explore the cooling of peak wokeness, rising black male Republican support as rejection of victimhood narratives, how mass immigration scrambled old grievance politics, campus antisemitism double standards, the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act shift, and even Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy. Two of the clearest voices on race argue we’ve turned a page — but the new chapter is messier than many admit. https://t.co/hNCHN0ZQap

[Coleman Hughes @coldxman]

How AI makes initiative beat intelligence | Tyler Cowen https://t.co/dAdFZMt5ZE @tylercowen

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

In a new Stanford study, law professors by far preferred Gemini 2.5 Pro's responses over those written by their peers when they were unaware of who wrote the answers.

[American Optimist @AmOptimistShow]

EPISODE 156: Coleman Hughes Takes on America's Most Contentious Debate 

@JTLonsdale sits down with @coldxman to discuss his new @uaustinorg course: "The Legacy of Slavery" 

(00:00) Episode intro

(01:40) Teaching the Legacy of Slavery

(06:20) Coleman's journey from Columbia to UATX

(08:30) Dr. King vs Derrick Bell

(11:20) Racial disparities by IQ and salary

(13:00) Thomas Sowell & the Real History of Slavery

(19:00) America's Founding Hypocrisy

(24:00) Will the Left cancel Dr. King?

(26:20) Understanding the 1619 Project

(30:25) Breakdown of the black family

(37:20) Is America wealthy because of slavery?

(43:50) Are you worried about woke AI?

(45:40) Three solutions for racial progress

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Something I told 14 yo: There's a kind of politician who tells people "Your life is bad because <outgroup> stole what's rightfully yours. Vote for me and I'll get it back for you." They do it on both the left (Lenin) and right (Hitler), and they're invariably bad news.

[Conversations with Coleman @ConvoswColeman]

Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) system lacks meaningful oversight and shields doctors from accountability, says @RupaSubramanya.

“There hasn’t been a single doctor in Canada who's been reprimanded or lost their license because there have been concerns about the fact that they approved someone for MAID when that person could have lived.”

[Conversations with Coleman @ConvoswColeman]

Michael @Shellenberger is one of the rare public figures willing to go against the grain on the Epstein conspiracy and admit he was previously wrong.

“My fear of God is greater than my fear of public opinion,” he tells @coldxman.

[Conversations with Coleman @ConvoswColeman]

“You can do whatever you want. You can be whatever you want. I think it’s not true.”

Michael @Shellenberger says modern parenting and education increasingly sell children a fantasy of limitless freedom that leaves many kids more anxious, not more fulfilled.

“Giving them too much freedom will scare them from a very young age,” he tells @coldxman.

“Too much choice also creates a kind of stress on people.”

[Conversations with Coleman @ConvoswColeman]

Epstein became a kind of national Rorschach test: a story about sex, power, corruption, intelligence agencies, billionaires, and the growing belief that the public is never being told the full truth.

Michael @Shellenberger says some of the details are genuinely disturbing. But he argues the public story around Epstein has drifted far beyond what can actually be proven.

“We have weird things,” he tells @coldxman. “But for the CIA or Mossad to be involved? That’s where I start to get a little more skeptical.”

He also argues something else is fueling the obsession: growing distrust of institutions after Russiagate, censorship controversies, and intelligence community abuses and, in some corners of the internet, outright antisemitism.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

This is absolutely beautiful.

Weinstein can’t defend his nonsense on the merits.

I thought he was genuinely schizo. But he doesn’t respond to Tracey by saying “yes Epstein is alive.”

He knows he can’t defend it.

At some level he knows he’s full of it.

[Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) @TheMilkBarTV]

The ultimate compilation of Tucker Carlson contradicting himself.

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Which are the most common everyday phenomena that we don't properly understand?

Off the top of my head:

• Lightning (how does it happen?)
• Sleep; dreams (why do they exist?)
• Glass (thermodynamics of formation)
• Turbulence (when does it start?)
• Morphogenesis (how does a creature know what should go where?)
• Rain (it seems to start faster than models would predict)
• Ice (dynamics of slipperiness)
• Static electricity (which material will donate electrons?)
• General anaesthetic. (And the mechanism of a lot of drugs, e.g. paracetamol.)

[Be Believing @Be_Believing]

A young girl practicing wushu at the bus stop while waiting. Sometimes, you need less than you think to stay active...

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

Wow. https://t.co/fS7i4XUD6B

[Coleman Hughes @coldxman]

Someone should ask AOC if Beyoncé earned her billion

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

AOC: “There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn that”

[Walter Russell Mead @wrmead]

In which @coldxman asks me questions about Christian Zionism: https://t.co/5XLOtNaWxh

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

When a self-proclaimed civil rights organization puts Ayaan Hirsi Ali, of all people, on a "hate watch" list, you know it has been twisted into a grotesque hate group itself. But this was only a sample of its perversions. Ayaan: The SPLC Targeted Me. Now Its Reckoning Has Come. https://t.co/qdPMTxsFpq

[Caт 🐝 @CatShoshanna]

Lenin in one hand, Cartier on the other.

[Robby Soave @robbysoave]

"He exposed the Epstein hoax is what he did. He was a brave independent reporter. And in this house, Michael Tracey is a hero—end of story!"

[Bari Weiss @bariweiss]

Unforgettable detail of the night: @lloydblankfein asking @coldxman, crouched under the table, “Are you going to finish that salad?”