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The Comedy Cellar: Live from the Table
Comedy Cellar Network
Is "Race Realism" Simply Racism? ╏Nathan Cofnas Under Fire
OCT 2, 2026147 MIN
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Description
Is Nathan Cofnas's "Guide for the Hereditarian Revolution." a plan to heal or America, or is it simply a racist manifesto dressed up as science.
We ask him to his face. Cofnas is the philosopher at the center of the Jason Arday plagiarism affair.
He says that, all else equal, smarter people have more human worth. He says freedom of association is worth it even if some diner bans blacks and Jews. And he says race realism is about to break into the mainstream whether we like it or not.
Noam takes him through A Guide for the Hereditarian Revolution line by line: the Charles Murray debate, Jared Taylor, a speech by Michael Levin (whose book Cofnas calls important), white kids "brainwashed to despise themselves," Nikole Hannah-Jones's daughter and the lifeboat question. Periel arrives late, just in time to call it insane (as usual).
0:00 Intro: "I feel like you're a white nationalist"
9:26 Is a smarter person worth more?
23:33 "Some barriers set up between the races"
32:16 Jared Taylor, AmRen and Michael Levin
53:03 "White children are brainwashed to despise themselves"
1:29:54 Nikole Hannah-Jones and her daughter
1:41:53 Lower human worth? The lifeboat question
1:47:38 Closing argument: yarmulkes on the basketball court
Nathan Cofnas, A Guide for the Hereditarian Revolution (Feb 5, 2024)
https://ncofnas.com/p/a-guide-for-the-hereditarian-revolution
Nathan Cofnas, Are Smart People Superior? A Reply to Noah Carl and Charles Murray (Apr 26, 2024)
https://ncofnas.com/p/are-smart-people-superior-a-reply
Debate with Charles Murray: IQ and Human Worth (Sept 16, 2026)
https://ncofnas.com/p/debate-with-charles-murray-iq-and
Nathan Cofnas, Why We Need to Talk about the Right's Stupidity Problem (Jan 2, 2024)
https://ncofnas.com/p/why-we-need-to-talk-about-the-rights
Nathan Cofnas, Beating Woke with Facts and Logic (Oct 9, 2025)
https://ncofnas.com/p/beating-woke-with-facts-and-logic
Nathan Cofnas on X, "Jews tried to be white nationalists" (Apr 28, 2018)
https://x.com/nathancofnas/status/990243373180219397
David Reich, How Genetics Is Changing Our Understanding of 'Race,' New York Times (Mar 23, 2018)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/opinion/sunday/genetics-race.html
David M. Quinn, How to Reduce Racial Bias in Grading, Education Next (Nov 2, 2020)
https://www.educationnext.org/how-to-reduce-racial-bias-in-grading-research/
Nikole Hannah-Jones on her daughter's schooling, New York Times Magazine (Sept 20, 2026)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/magazine/ny-public-schools-black-students-segregation.html
This American Life, Ep. 898, An Argument (Nikole Hannah-Jones and her daughter)
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/898/an-argument

