Coleman Hughes talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about being out of step with the prevailing orthodoxy about race as a black college student

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4.6 • 917 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Coleman Hughes, Quillette columnist and Columbia University student, talks to Canadian editor Jonathan Kay 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Colette podcast. My name is Claire Lehman and I am editor and chief of Colette.
0:09.0	Colette is where Free Thought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary.
0:15.9	Our podcast is a team effort and is jointly hosted by myself, associate editor Toby Young,
0:21.6	and Canadian editor Jonathan Kay.
0:23.7	You can support our podcast by visiting Patreon.com forward slash quellette
0:28.1	and becoming a monthly patron. By becoming a monthly patron you'll also receive our weekly newsletter.
0:35.0	Hello and welcome to the Colette podcast.
0:38.0	My name is Jonathan Kay and I am Colette's Canadian editor.
0:42.0	Quilett's Canadian editor.
0:42.7	Quilett is a young publication.
0:44.8	In fact, we've only been around since 2015, but some of our more regular writers already
0:50.5	have a strong following among readers.
0:53.4	One of them is Coleman Hughes, who's written such blockbuster Colette articles as
0:57.8	Canier West and the future of black conservatism, the racism treadmill, and the high price of stale grievances.
1:05.0	Coleman is one of only two monthly columnists at Quilat, but what makes him really unique among our contributors is that,
1:12.0	A, he's a skilled musician who once appeared in
1:15.3	Rayana's backup band at the MTV Video Music Awards and B, he's so young that he
1:20.9	hasn't even graduated yet from Columbia University.
1:24.6	I recently caught up with Coleman at Quilets New York Studio and asked him how his original
1:29.5	and provocative journalism at Quilett was being received by his Columbia classmates and by others. of Coleman, welcome to the podcast. Thanks for having me out.
1:43.0	Coleman, I knew before I met you, I guess this is the second time because I met you briefly
1:47.0	at the heterodox Academy conference here in New York a few weeks back.
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