Episode 225: Ta-Nehisi Coates

Published: Dec. 21, 2016, 6:31 p.m.

b'Ta-Nehisi Coates is the author of Between the World and Me and a national correspondent for The Atlantic. His latest cover story is \\u201cMy President Was Black."\\n\\n \\u201c[People] have come to see me as somebody with answers, but I don\\u2019t actually have answers. I\\u2019ve never had answers. The questions are the enthralling thing for me. Not necessarily at the end of the thing getting somewhere that\\u2019s complete\\u2014it\\u2019s the asking and repeated asking. I don\\u2019t know how that happened, but I felt like after a while it got to the point where I was seen as having unique answers, and I just didn\\u2019t. I really, really didn\\u2019t.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to MailChimp, Casper, and Audible for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n@tanehisicoates\\nCoates on Longform\\n[00:15] The 100th Episode of the Longform Podcast\\n[00:45] "My President Was Black" (Atlantic \\u2022 Dec 2016)\\n[01:15] Longform\\u2019s Best of 2016 List\\n[01:45] Shane Bauer on the Longform Podcast\\n[02:00] "Prince of the Forty Thieves" (David Gauvey Herbert \\u2022 Atavist \\u2022 Dec 2016)\\n[03:15] Coates\\u2019s First Appearance on the Longform Podcast\\n[03:15] Coates\\u2019s Second Appearance on the Longform Podcast\\n[03:15] Coates\\u2019s Third Appearance on the Longform Podcast\\n[04:30] Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet (Marvel \\u2022 2016)\\n[09:30] Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau \\u2022 2015)\\n[09:45] "The Case for Reparations" (Atlantic \\u2022 Jun 2014)\\n[13:45] Coates\\u2019s Archive at Washington City Paper\\n[16:45] "On Homecomings" (Atlantic \\u2022 May 2016)\\n[18:45] "The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration" (Atlantic \\u2022 Oct 2015)\\n[20:45] "Fear of a Black President" (Atlantic \\u2022 Sep 2012)\\n[21:15] Jonathan Chait\\u2019s Archive at New York\\n[30:30] "The Cosby Show" (Atlantic \\u2022 Nov 2014)\\n[35:15] Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Barack Obama \\u2022 Three Rivers Press \\u2022 2004)\\n[35:30] "\\u2018The Filter\\u2026Is Powerful\\u2019: Obama on Race, Media, and What It Took to Win" (Atlantic \\u2022 Dec 2016)\\n[43:45] "Obama\\u2019s Full Remarks at Howard University Commencement Ceremony" (Politico Staff \\u2022 Politico \\u2022 May 2016)\\n[50:30] Nate Silver on the Longform Podcast\\n[51:30] "Other People\\u2019s Pathologies" (Atlantic \\u2022 Mar 2014)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'