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...Ross G. Douthat ’02 is a history and literature concentrator in Quincy House. His column appears on alternate Mondays...
...Douthat: But, my understanding of it, and obviously nobody will ever really know what went on at that meeting, was that it wasn’t just that President Summers called him in and said, “What the heck are you doing recording a rap CD?” This was sort of a larger criticism of Cornel West over the last five years; I mean it hasn’t just been recording a rap CD. It’s been acting and working on the Rev. Al Sharpton’s next presidential campaign. It?...
McCarthy: Are you [Douthat and DeAraujo] suggesting then that if you are at the vanguard of your craft, you are a public intellectual with a wide audience and that because of that you should toe the line and stay mainstream and say exactly what Middle America would want to hear? You know, I said at the beginning of the year at a rally that we should think before we bomb and that got me put as number 32 on Lynne Cheney’s list of subversive academics. The fact of the matter is that there are lots of people...
...Douthat: I think it is possible that this could be good for the department in a way. It could of course be disastrous as well, but I think that if the department can weather something like this, can weather having two of three or four of its best faculty leave, then that would be a great success. Because it seems to me that as Tim said, right now from an exterior perspective the Af-Am department is defined by the fact that we have the best black professors in America, not by the fact that we’re doing...
...Douthat: OK. I’ll question it. I’ve listened to it and I think that as art, it’s embarrassingly bad, it’s another failure and if I made it, I’d be embarrassed. And I’m not trying to question the validity of spoken word or rap or any of those traditions. I just think that Cornel West has made a rather bad spoken word CD where he says a bunch of rather banal things that are not terribly interesting...