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Unsafe with Ann Coulter: The Primate Myth

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News, Politics

4.4651 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Leaf is a playwright, screenwriter, author and journalist, who’s won a slew of awards, has been compared to Saul Bellow for his “literacy and seriousness,” has written a half-dozen books, and also written for The New Yorker, The New York Post, The New York Daily News, The American, National Review, The New Partisan, The […]

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Ann Coulter. Welcome to my sub-tack. Today I'm interviewing playwrights, screenwriter,

0:09.3

novelist, and author of this amazing new book, The Primate Myth, Jonathan Leith. Welcome,

0:17.6

Jonathan.

0:18.6

It's such pleasure to be here. You know, I think about American history.

0:21.1

You've had a number of brilliant writers who are also beautiful, N.S. A. Mousin Malay, Mary McCarthy,

0:26.8

but you're kind of top of the heap. Why, thank you. And you were already one of my favorite

0:34.1

writers. So I didn't even need to be con calm, but now you're top of the heap.

0:39.4

This book, well, actually, I should say, I looked you up on Wikipedia, and I do want to

0:43.2

tell people a little bit more about you because, oh my gosh, what an impressive biography,

0:48.2

wrote lots of off-Broadway plays that have gotten accolades and awards.

0:52.8

The Caterers nominated for Best Full Length

0:55.2

Original Script by the Innovative Theatre Awards. He also wrote the play The Germans,

1:00.5

praised by the New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and Broadwayworld.com. He has been compared

1:07.2

to the Nobel Prize winning author, Saul Bellow, named one of the most important

1:14.0

young playwrights. I did not know you were a New York City public school teacher.

1:20.3

I have it yet. I should have you on just to talk about that. I'm reading your novel, which is a

1:27.0

mystery set in Hollywood, City of Angels. It's

1:30.7

absolutely fantastic. And this book, I went to your book signing for it. You gave a short little talk on it.

1:40.3

And immediately started reading the advanced copy you gave me.

1:44.8

It's just, it's taken me by storm.

1:47.4

It hits all the things I love.

1:49.4

Number one, proving long-held things that everyone knows to be true,

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