Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
Shaking hands with Cornel West, it's difficult to imagine that this is a man filled with rage. As the prominent “bluesman” put it in his Big Think interview , the key to a more just society lies in a form of widespread and unconditional love of others—a worldview that comes across forcibly within moments of meeting him. Yet, as a schoolboy, the Princeton Professor’s incipient...
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
William D. Cohan profiles Larry Summers in the December issue of Vanity Fair and confirms what we've long known: the star economic counselor has been his own worst enemy. The whole thing is worth a read, but here are some highlights: Iris Mack , a former derivatives specialist at the Harvard Management Company (responsible for investing Harvard’s endowment) claims that a betrayal by Summers...
FROM A TONGAN DAUGHTER (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
“I am in no way optimistic but I remain a prisoner of hope” ~ Cornel West Today I received an email from one of our Pacific Islander youth, the email is simple only a couple of lines, but piercing to the heart. She writes “I know you don’t know me and I understand if you don’t reply, but I have heard you speak a couple of times here in California and I have always wanted...
Mirror On America (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Another interview with Dr. Cornel West.
Habermasian Reflections (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Audio with Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, Judith Butler & Cornel West from the conference on " Rethinking Secularism: The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere " (New York University, October 22, 2009): Here The link courtesy of Thomas
Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Filed under: Interviews Princeton Professor Cornel West (' Race Matters ,' ' Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud ') has been known to criticize black leaders for the gulf that can open up between their rhetoric and their actions on behalf of the most vulnerable members of our community. So of course, when Black Voices got Dr. West in our studio, we had to ask him his thoughts about Rev. Jesse...
New English Review/The Iconoclast (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Read here. And while you are at it, watch and listen to Cornel West, University Professor at Princeton, right here. And here. And here. And here. And here....
The Nation Blogs (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
I've got a new Think Again column called "Obama's Commie Past Exposed Yet Again," and it's here . I took a seminar at Yale in 1985 when I was getting my master's with Edward Said on the role of the intellectual. Everyone in the class wore black and quoted Derrida (with whom I also took a seminar, in French, of which I understood very little). Anyway, there was a rather imposing African-American...
Note From The Book (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Just a Rundown facebook activity .. or shall i say the facebook activity on my page.. Along with some other stuff.. Random Status Update Zion Archive Computer : In the beginning, there was man. And for a time, it was good. But humanity's so-called civil societies soon fell victim to vanity and corruption. Then man made the machine in his own likeness. Thus did man become the architect of his own demise....
Open Source (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Click to listen to the “Matters of Faith” conversation with Harvey Cox, Mary Gordon, Cornel West and Chris Lydon. (43 minutes, 20 mb mp3) This is a book-fair exchange that caught fire around a current version of the old graffiti duel: “God is dead,” signed Nietzsche. Then, “Nietzsche is dead,” signed God. How’s [...]
Berto: Philosophy Monkey (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Cornel West, one of America's most popular leading intellectuals, just paid a visit to Stephen Colbert to talk about his autobiography. The man has a lot of good ideas, a compassionate heart, enviable erudition, personality to spare, and a clear vision of his philosophy. Despite the chaotic nature of the mental associations he often decides to employ (just see the non-sequitur lessons he derives from...
No Fact Zone.Net (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
EPISODE NUMBER: 5135 (October 26, 2009) GUESTS:Cornel West SEGMENTS: The WØRD: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Stephen’s Sound Advice – Hand Jobs For Cash VIDEOS: Monday, October 26, 2009 Who’s with me in saying that Stephen really needs to find more excuses to rock the bowtie? It was amazing how much his look changed from the dangling red tie [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Princeton University Professor Cornell West - the American philosopher, author, critic, pastor, actor and civil rights activist - compares his lifestyle to the blues in...
The Star-Ledger (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
“Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir” is the latest book from the best-selling writer
No Fact Zone.Net (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
It feels good to be back. While break weeks are nice for catching up on sleep, other work, and the like, you can always feel a little void. This weeks seems to have a fun line-up – so without further ado… Monday, October 26: Cornel West Cornel is becoming a “friend of the show” with his second [...]
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