[Unedited] Ta-Nehisi Coates with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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🗓️ 12 September 2019

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Ta-Nehisi Coates says we must love our country the way we love our friends — and not spare the hard truths. “Can you get to a place where citizens are encouraged to see themselves critically, where they’re encouraged to see their history critically?” he asks. Coates is a poetic journalist and a defining voice of our times. He’s with us in a conversation that is joyful, hard, kind, soaring, and down-to-earth all at once. He spoke with Krista as part of the 2017 Chicago Humanities Festival. This interview originally aired in November 2017.

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0:00.0	Support for On Being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build the
0:04.4	spiritual foundation for a loving world. Fetzer envisions a world that embraces love as a guiding
0:10.2	principle and animating force for our lives. A powerful love that helps us live in sacred
0:15.2	relationship with ourselves, others, and the natural world. Learn more by visiting Fetzer.org.
0:22.6	I'm Christa Tippett. Up next, my unedited conversation with journalist Tana Hasekote.
0:28.7	There is a shorter, produced version of this as always wherever you found this podcast.
0:39.6	Good evening. Thank you so much for your patience as we insured everybody made it into the house safely.
0:46.4	I'm Philip Bajar and I'm the executive director of the Chicago Humanities Festival. It's my pleasure
0:52.1	to welcome you tonight to this conversation with Christa Tippett and Tana Hasekote. It's the first
0:57.9	in what's going to be about 90 programs between now and November 12th during our fall
1:03.3	fest called belief. We'll be exploring the notion of belief from a variety of different perspectives
1:08.8	from the religious and spiritual to the social, the economic, and the political. So we hope that you
1:14.4	can all come out to as many programs as possible. If you haven't picked up a brochure, please do on your
1:20.2	way out and please feel free to download our app, which will allow you to kind of chart your course
1:25.7	through the festival and the 90 programs that we hope you come to at least a few of them if not 90.
1:32.4	With that, I just want to thank our host here at University of Chicago, our partners at the
1:38.3	Institute of Politics. These are longstanding partners that allow us to come down here and use
1:43.5	the incredible facilities here at the university. We'll be back here actually on Sunday, November 5th
1:50.2	for a program of 10 programs that day, including a former UChicago professor Daniel Allen. She's a
1:57.7	great political philosopher. She studied ethics and she's actually going to be coming back to talk
2:03.6	about the judicial system and incarceration systems in America and their devastating impact on
2:09.9	African American men through the lens actually of one of her cousins who got swept up into that
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