Coleman Hughes talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about his reparations testimony
Quillette Podcast
Quillette
4.6 • 917 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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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. |
| 0:08.0 | Colette is where Free Thought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary. |
| 0:15.3 | Our podcast is a team effort and is jointly hosted by myself, |
| 0:18.8 | associate editor Toby Young and Canadian editor Jonathan Kay. You can support our podcast by |
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| 0:33.0 | Welcome to the Colette Podcast. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Jonathan Kay, Colette's Canadian editor. |
| 0:38.0 | This week I've been in New York City, |
| 0:40.0 | attending the annual conference of Heterodox Academy, |
| 0:43.0 | a nonpartisan group of academics and writers |
| 0:45.8 | who are committed to viewpoint diversity. |
| 0:47.8 | One of the speakers here at the conference |
| 0:49.6 | has been none other than Quillette columnist Coleman Hughes, who generated controversy this week when he |
| 0:55.4 | testified at a United States House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on Bill H.R. 40, which, if passed, would establish a commission to study the possibility of paying reparations |
| 1:06.7 | to descendants of slaves. |
| 1:08.4 | The full transcript of his testimony appears on the Quilett.com website. During a break in conference proceedings, I sat down to speak with Coleman about his opposition to reparations, |
| 1:18.0 | a stance that was not popular among activists who attended the hearings. |
| 1:22.0 | What follows are excerpts of that conversation. |
| 1:25.0 | Coleman, I was actually surprised how brief your testimony was. |
| 1:32.0 | What were the parameters they gave you for delivering your remarks? |
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