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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: Interview with Coleman Hughes: The End of Race Politics
Description: In this special episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo interviews Coleman Hughes on his new book The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America. They discuss Hughes’ case for colorblindness, his critique of the “anti-racist” movement, and his views about why we need to abandon race as a meaningful category. Hughes also comments on Ayn Rand's individualist analysis of racism.
Among the topics covered:
How the ideal of colorblindness disappeared from American intellectual life;
How the concept of colorblindness has been misunderstood;
How the “anti-racist” movement perverted the concept of "racism";
The meaning of the attempts to suppress H...