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...million) to help save the world. Rejecting the report’s recommendations forces you to challenge that assumption. That could get you in trouble, which is the last thing you need in the wake of your spat with everybody’s favorite prima donna, Brother Cornel. When Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 threw his temper tantrum, you got bloodied in the press. Surely you don’t want to give the liberal elite another excuse to go for your jugular, so I can’t blame you if you grit your...
Their message, in the wake of the recently resolved conflict between Summers and Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, is relatively clear. Their origin, however, remains a mystery...
...ongoing spat between Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 and University President Lawrence H. Summers is yet another example of how utterly out of touch members of academia are with reality (Editorial, “A Little Tact Goes a Long...
...deep grasp of a multitude of subject matter.” True, his writings, like those of any great man, occasionally inspire carping from West’s political enemies (jealous fellow professors, the scoundrels of the troglodyte Right, and so on) who suggest that the Fletcher University Professor’s work may have more soul than substance. And sometimes even his fellow liberals sell out to The Man, as The New Republic did in 1995 when its Leon Wieseltier famously called West’s work “almost completely worthless...noisy, tedious, slippery, sectarian, humorless, pedantic...
...spokesperson for Cornel R. West ’74 defended the Fletcher University professor’s involvement in the Rev. Al Sharpton’s presidential exploratory committee this week, following the recent conflict between University President Lawrence H. Summers and West that was reportedly sparked in part by Summers’ criticism of West’s role in the campaign...