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Beltran, associate professor at new york university. brittany cooper, assistant professor of women and gender's studies y ies at rutger univers and tanner kolbe. mr. coates, are you just depressed? >> it goes back to that water is wet thing. i feel like i talk to academics about this, and they're like, yeah, this is the world. but there's this american need to believe everything is going to get better. that we're going to triumph in the end. which is bizarre and i don't think is necessarily healthy. we might triumph in the end, but we won't triumph in the end by assuring ourselves that we will...

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Well-regarded magazines. this is jonathan chase, a writer for "new york" magazine, a self-professed liberal who writes about politics and media. this is tan hassy coates, national correspondent for the atlantic. i should disclose, he once described me as america's foremost intellectual, which was not only an overstatement, but a description of the prolific coates as well. those are the interlocketters. and here's what sparked the debate. here's congressman paul ryan on march 12th. >> we have got this tailspin of culture in our inner cities in particular of men not working and just generations ...

Current see," whose mission is transcending race with a culture free of government dependency. as coates was pointing out, even black liberals tend to conflate pathology. and here is the president announcing the my brother's keeper initiative in february, a program designed to remove the structural obstacles to success for young men of color. >> we need to invest in our schools and make college more affordable and government has a role to play. and yes, we feed to encourage fathers to stick around and remove the barriers to marriage and talk openly about things like responsibility and faith an...

People's theologies. coates disagrees with jonathan chait and so do i. the blue period, an origin story. nerd alicious, good, wickedly smart people using enormous words, complex sentence structures, and thinly veiled intellectual shade to discuss consequential issues. and people were paying attention. writers at "the nation," the american prospect, "the new york times" all jumped in to tap out coates or chait and get their own licks in. even gawker covered it. call that a win for the public. but as much as i eagerly anticipated each new entry in this thoroughly engrossing conversation, it was ...