GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

There’s Nothing Stopping You Now: Coleman Hughes on Race and Poverty in America | GoodFellows: John Cochrane, Niall Ferguson, H. R. McMaster | Hoover Institution

May 17, 2023

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Roland Fryer's Evidence-Backed Study on Helping Poor Kids in Failing Schools

02:24

Teaching American History and Acknowledging the Past

03:46

Introduction

2min

Coleman on Goodfellows: A Bona Fide Rapper

2min

The Legacy of George Floyd

2min

The Principle of Reparations

2min

The Distraction of Reparations

3min

The Black Lives Matter Movement and the Protests and Riots in Response to the Murder of George Floyd

6min

The Negative Effects of Reparations on Race Relations

3min

Roland Fryer's Study on How to Help Poor Kids Who Are Disproportionately Black in Failing Schools

2min

The Importance of Agency in Postmodernism

2min

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The Danger of Minimizing Racism

3min

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The Counter Narrative to the 1619 Project

2min

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The History of Slavery in American Schools

3min

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The Role of Postmodernism in American History

3min

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The Importance of Understanding the History of Slavery

3min

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The Importance of Being Black in the United States of the 2020

3min

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The Dream of a Color Blind Society

2min

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Trump's Second Act Can Still Win in Spite of Everything

3min

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Donald Trump's Presidency

2min

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Trump's Uncommittedness on Taiwan

2min

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The Importance of a Trump Re-Election

2min

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The Politics of Addition

2min

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Neil's Mount Rushmore

2min

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Putin's Denial of Ukraine Injectors

2min

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Elon Musk Steps Down as CEO of Twitter

2min

California weighs reparations for slavery’s descendants as America approaches the three-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd—a Black man killed by a White police officer—in Minneapolis. Coleman Hughes, a columnist and podcaster who specializes in issues related to race and public policy, joins Hoover senior fellows Niall Ferguson and H.R. McMaster to discuss the legacy of Floyd’s death, the historical teaching of race, and the feasibility of a “color-blind” society. Plus, Niall and H.R. handicap the odds of a second Trump presidency and what that would portend for “Cold War 2” and the war in Ukraine. Also, General Funkenstein is in ‘da house!