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The Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman.

Just one announcement.

I'll be hosting a member's only Q&A on Sunday, March 28th at 6 p.m. Eastern on YouTube.

So if you're a member, you'll have access to that.

Today's episode is a bit different than usual. It's actually a recording of a talk I gave at Harvard's program on constitutional government three months ago entitled The Case for Colorblindness.

My talk is about 30 minutes and it's followed by an audience Q&A.

Just a warning, the video quality on this is pretty poor, but I liked how the talk went, so I'm releasing it anyway.

And I hope you enjoy it. So without further ado, the case for colorblindness.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the program on constitutional government at Harvard in the

Department of Government. I'm Harvey Mansfield. And our guest today is Coleman Hughes.

Coleman Hughes is an American writer. He's 24 years old. He's a recent graduate of Columbia,

where he majored in philosophy. And I first met him on the blog or is it an online journal, Quillette from Australia.

And I was so impressed that I immediately became a fan and I've been looking for all his productions

ever since then.

He also is associated with the Manhattan Institute,

and he writes for City Journal.

He should mention a jazz trombonist

and studied at Juilliard.

He's a man who's both philosophical and political,

and perhaps both of those in the best sense.

He's calm, he sees both sides of an issue,

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