Saritha Komatireddy is the Republican challenger seeking to unseat Democratic incumbent Letitia James as New York Attorney General. She is the Brooklyn-born daughter of Indian immigrants, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, a former federal prosecutor, and the former chief of staff at the Drug Enforcement Administration. 
Komatireddy’s campaign has gained unexpected momentum following her viral debate performance, where she pressed AG James hard on public safety, violent crime against women, rising homelessness, rampant and unprosecuted fraud, and selective enforcement of civil rights law. 
 
Certain of their exchanges—including one where James visibly struggled to name a single past attorney general she admired—reached millions of views online. As New York and the country prepare for elections next week in which Democrats are expected to win big, Saritha makes her case for your vote. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Saritha Komatireddy is the Republican challenger seeking to unseat Democratic incumbent Letitia James as New York Attorney General. She is the Brooklyn-born daughter of Indian immigrants, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, a former federal prosecutor, and the former chief of staff at the Drug Enforcement Administration. Komatireddy’s campaign has gained unexpected momentum following her viral debate performance, where she pressed AG James hard on public safety, violent crime against women, rising homelessness, rampant and unprosecuted fraud, and selective enforcement of civil rights law. Certain of their exchanges—including one where James visibly struggled to name a single past attorney general she admired—reached millions of views online. As New York and the country prepare for elections next week in which Democrats are expected to win big, Saritha makes her case for your vote. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Saritha Komatireddy is the Republican challenger seeking to unseat Democratic incumbent Letitia James as New York Attorney General. She is the Brooklyn-born daughter of Indian immigrants, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, a former federal prosecutor, and the former chief of staff at the Drug Enforcement Administration. 
Komatireddy’s campaign has gained unexpected momentum following her viral debate performance, where she pressed AG James hard on public safety, violent crime against women, rising homelessness, rampant and unprosecuted fraud, and selective enforcement of civil rights law. 
 
Certain of their exchanges—including one where James visibly struggled to name a single past attorney general she admired—reached millions of views online. As New York and the country prepare for elections next week in which Democrats are expected to win big, Saritha makes her case for your vote. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Saritha Komatireddy on New York’s Homelessness Crisis, Public Safety, and Free Speech

Megan Phelps-Roper grew up as the public face of the Westboro Baptist Church, the hate group founded by her grandfather, known for picketing veterans’ funerals with signs condemning gay people and Jews. She left the church in 2012 after a series of Twitter conversations exposed cracks in its theology she could no longer ignore. 
Since then, she’s built a new career exploring faith, belief, and public discourse from multiple angles, including as host of The Free Press’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-witch-trials-of-j-k-rowling/id1842502506">The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling</a>. Now, somewhat surprisingly, she’s launched a new podcast called <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/book-keeper/id6790978542">Book Keeper</a>, where she returns to Bible stories she grew up with and tries to figure out which parts of them still hold up, and which don’t. 
She joins Coleman Hughes to talk through the exact verse that unraveled her worldview, why she still reads Scripture to her kids despite not believing in God, and why she thinks a society that abandons fixed values is just as dangerous as one that enforces the wrong ones.
Book Keeper is a Longview original series. Listen at longview.report/bookkeeper
For the Bart Ehrman lecture that Coleman mentioned in the show, click here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CU1EZv-pFo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CU1EZv-pFo</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Megan Phelps-Roper grew up as the public face of the Westboro Baptist Church, the hate group founded by her grandfather, known for picketing veterans’ funerals with signs condemning gay people and Jews. She left the church in 2012 after a series of Twitter conversations exposed cracks in its theology she could no longer ignore. Since then, she’s built a new career exploring faith, belief, and public discourse from multiple angles, including as host of The Free Press’s The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling. Now, somewhat surprisingly, she’s launched a new podcast called Book Keeper, where she returns to Bible stories she grew up with and tries to figure out which parts of them still hold up, and which don’t. She joins Coleman Hughes to talk through the exact verse that unraveled her worldview, why she still reads Scripture to her kids despite not believing in God, and why she thinks a society that abandons fixed values is just as dangerous as one that enforces the wrong ones. Book Keeper is a Longview original series. Listen at longview.report/bookkeeper For the Bart Ehrman lecture that Coleman mentioned in the show, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CU1EZv-pFo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Megan Phelps-Roper grew up as the public face of the Westboro Baptist Church, the hate group founded by her grandfather, known for picketing veterans’ funerals with signs condemning gay people and Jews. She left the church in 2012 after a series of Twitter conversations exposed cracks in its theology she could no longer ignore.&nbsp;
Since then, she’s built a new career exploring faith, belief, and public discourse from multiple angles, including as host of The Free Press’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-witch-trials-of-j-k-rowling/id1842502506" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling</a>. Now, somewhat surprisingly, she’s launched a new podcast called <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/book-keeper/id6790978542" rel="noopener noreferrer">Book Keeper</a>, where she returns to Bible stories she grew up with and tries to figure out which parts of them still hold up, and which don’t.&nbsp;
She joins Coleman Hughes to talk through the exact verse that unraveled her worldview, why she still reads Scripture to her kids despite not believing in God, and why she thinks a society that abandons fixed values is just as dangerous as one that enforces the wrong ones.
Book Keeper is a Longview original series. Listen at longview.report/bookkeeper
For the Bart Ehrman lecture that Coleman mentioned in the show, click here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CU1EZv-pFo" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CU1EZv-pFo</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

The Bible Story Every Atheist Should Read, with Megan Phelps-Roper

Elliot Kaufman’s new book, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/93116/9798895654804">In the War Room</a>, is an inside account of how Israel actually fought the war that followed October 7, 2023. A Wall Street Journal editorial writer, Kaufman spent the last two years reporting on the conflict and drew on documents recovered from Hamas, along with behind-the-scenes access to Israel’s top political, military, and intelligence leaders, to reconstruct decisions most of the public never saw. Kaufman explains why Hamas sincerely believed it could destroy Israel, why Hezbollah never launched the full-scale invasion Israel feared most, and why the bitter, often personal rivalry between Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant, and Benny Gantz shaped nearly every major decision of the war. He also walks through what he considers Israel’s biggest unforced error—the two-month aid stoppage that fueled a global famine narrative—and how the war ultimately reshaped Hezbollah, Iran’s nuclear program, and the future of the Abraham Accords. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Elliot Kaufman’s new book, In the War Room, is an inside account of how Israel actually fought the war that followed October 7, 2023. A Wall Street Journal editorial writer, Kaufman spent the last two years reporting on the conflict and drew on documents recovered from Hamas, along with behind-the-scenes access to Israel’s top political, military, and intelligence leaders, to reconstruct decisions most of the public never saw. Kaufman explains why Hamas sincerely believed it could destroy Israel, why Hezbollah never launched the full-scale invasion Israel feared most, and why the bitter, often personal rivalry between Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant, and Benny Gantz shaped nearly every major decision of the war. He also walks through what he considers Israel’s biggest unforced error—the two-month aid stoppage that fueled a global famine narrative—and how the war ultimately reshaped Hezbollah, Iran’s nuclear program, and the future of the Abraham Accords. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elliot Kaufman’s new book, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/93116/9798895654804" rel="noopener noreferrer">In the War Room</a>, is an inside account of how Israel actually fought the war that followed October 7, 2023. A Wall Street Journal editorial writer, Kaufman spent the last two years reporting on the conflict and drew on documents recovered from Hamas, along with behind-the-scenes access to Israel’s top political, military, and intelligence leaders, to reconstruct decisions most of the public never saw. Kaufman explains why Hamas sincerely believed it could destroy Israel, why Hezbollah never launched the full-scale invasion Israel feared most, and why the bitter, often personal rivalry between Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant, and Benny Gantz shaped nearly every major decision of the war. He also walks through what he considers Israel’s biggest unforced error—the two-month aid stoppage that fueled a global famine narrative—and how the war ultimately reshaped Hezbollah, Iran’s nuclear program, and the future of the Abraham Accords. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Inside Israel’s War Room: What Really Happened After October 7

Dr. Cornel West is one of the most distinct voices in American public life. He’s a philosopher, theologian, and moral critic who has spent decades asking the toughest questions about America—what this country is and what it ought to be. He joins Coleman on the 250th anniversary of the founding to get into the state of America in 2026. They get into the founding contradictions, the ethics of manifest destiny, what American capitalism gets right and what it leaves out, the decline of religion and what has replaced it, and what he learned running for president. It ends, as all great philosophical conversations should, with his view of the Drake-versus-Kendrick beef. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Dr. Cornel West is one of the most distinct voices in American public life. He’s a philosopher, theologian, and moral critic who has spent decades asking the toughest questions about America—what this country is and what it ought to be. He joins Coleman on the 250th anniversary of the founding to get into the state of America in 2026. They get into the founding contradictions, the ethics of manifest destiny, what American capitalism gets right and what it leaves out, the decline of religion and what has replaced it, and what he learned running for president. It ends, as all great philosophical conversations should, with his view of the Drake-versus-Kendrick beef. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Cornel West is one of the most distinct voices in American public life. He’s a philosopher, theologian, and moral critic who has spent decades asking the toughest questions about America—what this country is and what it ought to be. He joins Coleman on the 250th anniversary of the founding to get into the state of America in 2026. They get into the founding contradictions, the ethics of manifest destiny, what American capitalism gets right and what it leaves out, the decline of religion and what has replaced it, and what he learned running for president. It ends, as all great philosophical conversations should, with his view of the Drake-versus-Kendrick beef. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Dr. Cornel West: Is America Living Up to Its Promise?

Conversations with Coleman is home to honest conversations with leading intellectuals on polarised issues in the realm of race, politics and culture in the West.
 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Conversations with Coleman is home to honest conversations with leading intellectuals on polarised issues in the realm of race, politics and culture in the West. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conversations with Coleman is home to honest conversations with leading intellectuals on polarised issues in the realm of race, politics and culture in the West.
 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Introducing Conversations With Coleman | Official Podcast Trailer

Conversations with Coleman&nbsp;is where deep thinkers and curious minds meet for sharp, surprising, and unfiltered chats. Hosted by Coleman Hughes, writer, thinker, and guy who asks the questions other people dodge - this podcast isn’t about&nbsp;debating. It’s about discovery. Politics, philosophy, race, culture, science: it’s all fair game. If you're done with hot takes and hungry for real-talk, come join the conversation.

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Conversations with Coleman is where deep thinkers and curious minds meet for sharp, surprising, and unfiltered chats. Hosted by Coleman Hughes, writer, thinker, and guy who asks the questions other people dodge - this podcast isn’t about debating. It’s about discovery. Politics, philosophy, race, culture, science: it’s all fair game. If you're done with hot takes and hungry for real-talk, come join the conversation.

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