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...pair's departure was a serious blow to a department that lost several scholars during Summers’ tenure, including star professor Cornel West, who left for Princeton after Summers suggested in a much-publicized confrontation that he should spend less time on developing rap CDs and more time on traditional scholarship...
...first days as a freshman, I happened across refuse of the previous year’s Cornel West–Larry Summers feud: a poster that encouraged its onlookers to “Get Uppity on Massa Summers’ Plantation.” And so was born my visceral feeling that something was amiss at Harvard College...
After the stunning success of his first spoken word album, Cornel West has decided to release a second. God help...
...Critics understand that our judgments often take on lives of their own—write too much about somebody, and you risk spurring a dozen contrarians to their defense. Or one might draw attention to bad ideas. But I make an exception in the case of Cornel West, where I feel the truth cannot be repeated often enough. Cornel West raps like a 12-year old girl...
Like many of our academics today, Cornel West is an exceptionally smart man with surprisingly poor judgment. By last count, the black community is only 12% of the national population. Manifestly, a presidential candidate must cultivate support from the population at large. If Obama is to stand a chance, as I hope he will, he must take all the money he can get: black, red, Catholic, Jewish, and yes, Brother West, even “big white money...