Conversations with Coleman
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Coleman Hughes pushes Glenn Greenwald on the Israel lobby’s influence in Washington. Coleman Hughes: “The entire pro-Israel lobby was outspent...during the Obama years by the dentistry lobby…It’s not nearly powerful enough to get us involved in all these wars that people like to blame on it.” Glenn Greenwald: “If we are going to frame it as binaries—either AIPAC is all powerful and omnipotent…or the alternative is AIPAC is really kind of weak—I think it’s a disservice to the discussion. The truth lies in the middle, but far closer to the end of the spectrum where they’re extremely powerful… “This is a lobby devoted to the interests of a foreign country. And there’s nothing that remotely competes with the power of the pro-Israel lobby in terms of lobbies that come from other countries. And that's the reason why it gets so much attention. It’s just such a bizarre phenomenon of American political life.” Watch Coleman’s response—and the rest of their debate on Israel and U.S. foreign policy—now:
Conversations with Coleman490,238 views • 2 months ago
Sam Harris on the misinformation, disinformation, and lies that have fueled public skepticism of U.S. support for Israel. “We have people walking around with facts in their heads that are not facts…There are people who think that Israel has perpetrated a genocide in Gaza…They think there was a famine in Gaza…They believe they’ve seen pictures of this. I’m not saying there hasn’t been tremendous suffering and death in Gaza. But if, in fact, it is true that the IDF faced an urban warfare challenge of a sort that no society has ever faced…If it is, in fact, true that the IDF has been better behaved, or at least as well-behaved as Americans or Brits or any other Western power has been in anything like an analogous situation…If all of that’s true, then what are we talking about here? What is this double standard that’s being applied to Israel?”
Conversations with Coleman272,250 views • 2 months ago
![Coleman Hughes (Coleman Hughes) presses Glenn Greenwald (Glenn Greenwald) on his relationship with Tucker Carlson. Coleman Hughes: “I’ve heard [Tucker] promulgate lies to an extent that is really shocking to me…2020 election…Pizzagate…Aliens…Do you, as a journalist, feel that you have a responsibility to hold him accountable?” Glenn Greenwald: “I’m not saying everything Tucker has said has been in agreement with me. I’m not saying it hasn’t deviated from the facts. I’m not saying that he doesn’t occasionally wander into conspiracy theory. I think that’s true of a lot of people… But my journalism has focused on the people who can start wars—like the U.S. security state—and the people who can spy on us—like the NSA—and the people who go around the world killing people—like the CIA and the president—who can start wars…That’s my focus…There’s no shortage of people attacking Tucker Carlson every single day. But there is a shortage of people attacking all the other institutions. The much more damaging and powerful ones.”](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2036835308738654592/amplify_video_thumb/2036834280941256704/img/yuv9oP1AvqrVHTsx.jpg)
Coleman Hughes (Coleman Hughes) presses Glenn Greenwald (Glenn Greenwald) on his relationship with Tucker Carlson. Coleman Hughes: “I’ve heard [Tucker] promulgate lies to an extent that is really shocking to me…2020 election…Pizzagate…Aliens…Do you, as a journalist, feel that you have a responsibility to hold him accountable?” Glenn Greenwald: “I’m not saying everything Tucker has said has been in agreement with me. I’m not saying it hasn’t deviated from the facts. I’m not saying that he doesn’t occasionally wander into conspiracy theory. I think that’s true of a lot of people… But my journalism has focused on the people who can start wars—like the U.S. security state—and the people who can spy on us—like the NSA—and the people who go around the world killing people—like the CIA and the president—who can start wars…That’s my focus…There’s no shortage of people attacking Tucker Carlson every single day. But there is a shortage of people attacking all the other institutions. The much more damaging and powerful ones.”
Conversations with Coleman216,175 views • 2 months ago
Vox host Astead claims Zohran Mamdani is quietly pushing back against the harder-line anti-Zionists in his movement. In a meeting with his Jewish endorsers, says Astead, Rep. Jerry Nadler questioned the progressive left’s fixation on anti-Zionism. When someone started to defend it, Mamdani cut him off: “Stop. This is not what we’re here to do.”
Conversations with Coleman588,464 views • 6 months ago
The FP’s Coleman Hughes on the myth of moral equivalence in Gaza: “I believe that in the war between Israel and Hamas, the Israelis are the good guys and Hamas are the bad guys. “I’m not saying that everything the IDF does is justifiable… What I mean is that Israel’s goals as a country are far more benign and ethical than Hamas’s goals. Israel’s goal is to live in peace with its neighbors.”
Conversations with Coleman868,072 views • 10 months ago
Epstein became a kind of national Rorschach test: a story about sex, power, corruption, intelligence agencies, billionaires, and the growing belief that the public is never being told the full truth. Michael Michael Shellenberger says some of the details are genuinely disturbing. But he argues the public story around Epstein has drifted far beyond what can actually be proven. “We have weird things,” he tells Coleman Hughes. “But for the CIA or Mossad to be involved? That’s where I start to get a little more skeptical.” He also argues something else is fueling the obsession: growing distrust of institutions after Russiagate, censorship controversies, and intelligence community abuses and, in some corners of the internet, outright antisemitism.
Conversations with Coleman34,442 views • 16 days ago
Megan McArdle (Megan McArdle): “If you talk to liberals, there’s this fantasy European system where you just go to the doctor and your bills are negligible and they cover everything, and it’s amazing… that is not a real system that exists anywhere.” Coleman Hughes (Coleman Hughes): “In the extreme cases in America, you pay with money. In the extreme cases in the UK, you pay with time.”
Conversations with Coleman484,474 views • 9 months ago
“You can do whatever you want. You can be whatever you want. I think it’s not true.” Michael Michael Shellenberger says modern parenting and education increasingly sell children a fantasy of limitless freedom that leaves many kids more anxious, not more fulfilled. “Giving them too much freedom will scare them from a very young age,” he tells Coleman Hughes. “Too much choice also creates a kind of stress on people.”
Conversations with Coleman32,744 views • 16 days ago
Sam Harris: “You can logically differentiate antisemitism from anti-Zionism…those are distinct, at least in principle.” “But in practice…the unique focus on Israel as a country that has a problem justifying its right to exist—I don’t know how else to explain that beyond some level of antisemitism.”
Conversations with Coleman118,768 views • 2 months ago
Historian Niall Ferguson argues the U.S. should finish the job in Iran. “Get rid of the theocracy…It would be, without question, a benefit to ordinary Iranians; it would be a benefit to the region as a whole—and indeed the world—to remove this evil regime from the face of the earth. Let's do it.”
Conversations with Coleman205,709 views • 4 months ago
![How powerful is the Israel lobby in the United States? Coleman Hughes (Coleman Hughes): “The Israel lobby, as powerful as you think it is, couldn’t get any president to [recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights] for 36 years…but [you think] they could get us into a whole war.” Dave Smith (Dave Smith): “I’ve never been one of these conspiracy kooks. I’m not claiming Israel controls everything that ever happens…but I think Israel has a lot of influence over this country, which they obviously do.”](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1975223298850963902/amplify_video_thumb/1975220807874818048/img/2-rzPZW1TDrqQtH8.jpg)
How powerful is the Israel lobby in the United States? Coleman Hughes (Coleman Hughes): “The Israel lobby, as powerful as you think it is, couldn’t get any president to [recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights] for 36 years…but [you think] they could get us into a whole war.” Dave Smith (Dave Smith): “I’ve never been one of these conspiracy kooks. I’m not claiming Israel controls everything that ever happens…but I think Israel has a lot of influence over this country, which they obviously do.”
Conversations with Coleman336,649 views • 8 months ago
Slavery in the Islamic world likely lasted longer—and involved as many or more people—than the Atlantic slave trade. Yet it remains vastly under-researched and under-discussed in the West. Why? Historian Justin Marozzi: For years, studying it was “professionally hazardous for a young scholar.”
Conversations with Coleman117,690 views • 2 months ago
.Coleman Hughes shares his own experience with the political bias of Wikipedia editors. After testifying against reparations for slavery, certain editors removed that he’s half African American. “Because if I’m not African American, then you can discount my opinion on race issues.” In Coleman’s case, the information was eventually corrected. But often, if anonymous editors working together leverage the rules of Wikipedia to their advantage, false or misleading information can remain forever.
Conversations with Coleman60,673 views • 1 month ago
![Sam Harris addresses the anti-war crowd who believe it’s irrational to confront Iran until they’re sprinting toward the nuclear bomb. “We’re under no obligation to give jihadis the benefit of the doubt—ever… [Iran is] ruled by a death cult that that has the explicit project of genocide with respect to Israel…and if they could only accomplish it, genocide with respect to America…Let us take these people at their word.”](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2036094341215560080/amplify_video_thumb/2036093512132001792/img/6efnCUTgrwYC9ApJ.jpg)
Sam Harris addresses the anti-war crowd who believe it’s irrational to confront Iran until they’re sprinting toward the nuclear bomb. “We’re under no obligation to give jihadis the benefit of the doubt—ever… [Iran is] ruled by a death cult that that has the explicit project of genocide with respect to Israel…and if they could only accomplish it, genocide with respect to America…Let us take these people at their word.”
Conversations with Coleman93,272 views • 2 months ago
