Coleman Hughes on Colorblindness, Jazz, and Identity | Conversations with Tyler
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Coleman Hughes believes we should strive to ignore race both in public policy and in our private lives. But when it comes to personal identity and expression, how feasible is this to achieve? And are there any other individual traits we should also seek to ignore?
Coleman and Tyler explore the implications of colorblindness, including whether jazz would've been created in a color-blind society, how easy it is to disentangle race and culture, whether we should also try to be 'autism-blind', and Coleman's personal experience with lookism and ageism. They also discuss what Coleman’s learned from J.J. Johnson, the hardest thing about performing the trombone, playing sets in the Charles Mingus Big Band as a teenager, whether Billy Joel is any good, what reservations he has about his conservative fans, why the Beastie Boys are overrated, what he's learned from Noam Dworman, why Interstellar is Chris Nolan's masterpiece, the Coleman Hughes production function, why political debate is so toxic, what he'll do next, and more.
Recorded March 6th, 2024
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Tyler Cowen is one of the best interviewers of our day.
Possibly the most competent and effective interviewer i have ever come across. Literally flawless.
Best interview with Hughes.
Tyler, please have more jazz musicians on!
Great host, great guest.
It almost feels like a passing of the torch when you guys go back and forth questioning each other
Wow, Tyler, fantastic questions.
I think he'd have a much easier time articulating an ethic of "colorblindness" if he dropped "race", distinguished between "color" and "culture" instead, and argued that when it's based on the former, discrimination (whether political, social, or interpersonal) is wrong, but when it's based on the latter, it's OK, and sometimes even necessary. He could avoid altogether these half-assed/doomed attempts at disentangling "race" and "culture".
I have not listened to much jazz, but I am checking out Ah Um to see what I've been missing.
That's exciting!! Please reply to me - if you want - and tell me what you think!! Great record. Mingus also wrote a fascinating book titled "Beneath The Underdog"; it's semi-autobiographical, as it also combines some fiction or exaggeration. Great book!!
is Tyler wearing a tallis?
Reading Nietzsche may have been difficult, but it made you stronger.
One of the least impressive people to interview
Agree, you could easily throw a brick and hit a Julliard and Columbia trained best selling author in their 20s.
What a wildly compelling criticism you make. If only Coleman were as sophisticated in his thinking as you are.
You are probably here because you have a trust in Tyler's preferences. Surely he is seeing something in Coleman that you aren't.
He's an iconoclast. Such an accomplished young man and with the balls to address what race obsession has done to our culture. And he's in the Mingus Jazz band. Proud of this guy.
I like Coleman, but he has shit taste in movies.
I love Coleman.
J.J. Johnson was a beast!!!