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...written in English, and that reading such a canon will inform the way concentrators approach other literature. While a thorough study of a particular country or region’s literature no doubt broadly prepares concentrators to study that of other countries, there is no reason that only the West??s English-language literature should be able to provide that larger context...
...most striking example of this pathological perspective is the supposed “great crisis” of our age: environmental destruction. With cultish zeal, many greens bemoan the West??s—especially the U.S.’s—resource-guzzling prosperity, and even relatively moderate environmentalists like Al Gore think that we need to undergo “sacrifice, struggle, and a wrenching transformation of society.” The alleged need for this self-flagellation stems from the fact that the U.S. makes up less than five percent of the world?...
...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...
...case, where is Brother West??s money coming from anyway? After his stints at Harvard and now Princeton, personally, I’d put my money on the “big white...
...divide America into black and white, castigate Obama for “acting white,” and hope that we can still move towards a respectful racial pluralism in this country. That Obama has been embraced many millions of every color does not seem to have changed Professor West??s mind. In West??s world, whites and blacks in America are still, even today, fundamentally determined to war. The tragedy, then, of West??s racial determinism is that it contributes to the racial tensions he ostensible wishes to alleviate...