David Bernstein
It's a sign of the intellectual unseriousness of the American "public intellectual" circuit that anyone cares, or purports to care, about what dilettante Coates thinks about Israel or Gaza. If I had the opportunity to interview him, the first question I'd ask is: there are
Nicholas Fondacaro
Ta-Nehisi Coates suggests he's not above taking part in an October 7-style attack: "And I grow up under that oppression and that poverty and the wall comes down. Am I also strong enough or even constructed in such a way where I say this is too far, I don't know that I am."