Episode 97: Ta-Nehisi Coates

Published: June 18, 2014, 5 p.m.

b'Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor at The Atlantic. His latest cover story is "The Case for Reparations."\\n\\n"The writer hopes for change, but writers can\'t assume that their work is going to cause change."\\n\\nThanks to TinyLetter andI Am Zlatan, the international bestseller published by Random House, for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n\\nShow Notes:\\n@tanehisicoates\\nCoates\'s blog for The Atlantic\\nCoates on Longform\\n"The Case for Reparations" (The Atlantic \\u2022 May 2014)\\n[4:20] "Longform Podcast #7: Ta-Nehisi Coates"\\n[4:35] "Fear of a Black President" (The Atlantic \\u2022 Aug 2012)\\n[7:05] "The Case for Reparations: An Intellectual Autopsy" (The Atlantic \\u2022 May 2014)\\n[8:05] "For Asians, School Tests Are Vital Steppingstones" (Kyle Spencer \\u2022 New York Times \\u2022 Oct 2012)\\n[10:08] Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Kenneth Jacks \\u2022 Oxford University Press \\u2022 1985)\\n[16:10] "The Story of the Contract Buyers League" (James Alan McPherson \\u2022 The Atlantic \\u2022 Apr 1972) [pdf]\\n[18:53] "Zlatan\\u2019s Revenge!" An excerpt from I Am Zlatan (Zlatan Ibrahimovic \\u2022 Grantland \\u2022 May 2014)\\n[19:18] Zlatan Ibrahimovic scores "maybe the best goal ever scored" [YouTube]\\n[40:40] "Ta-Nehisi Coates Disagrees With \\u2018Jonathan Chait,\\u2019 and So Do I" (Jonathan Chait \\u2022 New York \\u2022 Mar 2014)\\n[43:15] Elizabeth Kolbert on Longform\\n[51:07] "Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek " (John Branch \\u2022 New York Times \\u2022 Dec 2012)\\n[58:23] Nobody Knows My Name (James Baldwin \\u2022 Dial Press \\u2022 1961)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'