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• Cornel West Interview

  
  Perverse Egalitarianism — Authority: 130
  Here is an excerpt from an interview with Cornel West I came across on Alternet.  I was most interested to read about West’s criticism of Obama and his comments about Michael Moore’s faith in Obama: McNally: My fiancee said the saddest moment for her was watching how excited people were the night Barack ...
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• Obama’s Nobel Speech: What If?

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 655
  What if? What if Obama’s speech had not simply referenced Gandhi and King but followed them in following the way of Jesus? I have a number of friends, like Nobel Prize nominee John Dear and Ken Butigan, who have articulately raised concerns about…
  3 days ago

• The Clarke-West Debate

  
  The Liberator: Blog — Authority: 131
  This discussion between Dr. John Henrik Clarke and Dr. Cornel West -- moderated by Dr. Gregory Carr -- deserves its own post. It was referenced during this Jazz and Justice Radio interview on the Politics of Cultural Memory. Much thanks to quince3800 for following up and providing the link. The... [[read the full ...
  5 days ago

• Tearing Down the Walls of Medium: District Calling Builds with the Mortar of Creativity

  
  All Our Noise — Authority: 109
  We live in the compartmental. Be it work or play, friends or family, profession or passion, we tend to regulate the neighborhoods in the communities of our lives.In fact, this model extends well beyond the individual, stretching out to the communal and the civic as well. And while in many ways this may help [...]
  6 days ago

• Positively Princeton: Professors, Pickers and Provocateurs

  
  RightWingBob.com — Authority: 424
  RWB was thrilled to be able to attend a lunch seminar held at Princeton University yesterday, titled “Pickers, Pop Fronters, and Them ‘Talkin John Birch Paranoid Blues’: A Meditation on Music and Politics.” (Say that five times fast.) It was held under the auspices of the James Madison Program at that ...
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• The Enemy of My Enemy

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  WorldNetDaily draws the latest over-heated attack on a member of the Obama administration from an unlikely source — the autobiography of Princeton University professor Cornel West. In his new book, West claims that then-Harvard University President Larry Summers encouraged him to help “f**k up” Prof. Harvey ...
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• White House economist: ‘F— up’ conservative prof

  
  The Betrayal — Authority: 154
  ‘I was astounded that the president of Harvard would stoop to such tactics’ By Aaron Klein According to a university colleague, former president of Harvard and current White House economist Larry Summers once asked for help to “f— up” one of the school’s conservative professors. Summers’ ...
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• Scott McLemee: A Wildly Weak and Untrained Mind

  
  Edward Champion's Reluctant Habits — Authority: 548
  In 1998, a Salon byline revealed that Scott McLemee was “at work on a book, Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye: Conspiracy Theory in American Culture .” Eleven years later, that book has not materialized. Indeed, not a single book has emerged from the McLemee Easy-Bake Oven, save for two books he edited: ...
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• Klein: White House economist: ‘F— up’ conservative prof. ‘I was astounded that the president of Harvard would stoop to such tactics’

  
  RBO — Authority: 529
  Aaron Klein, Jerusalem bureau chief for World Net Daily, reports:White House economist Larry Summers (right), former president of Harvard, once asked Cornel West, a radical race relations instructor, to help him “f— up” a conservative professor, West claims in his new memoirs.West is now a professor at Princeton ...
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• Cuban govt blasts US black leaders for racism charge

  
  C U B A P O L I D A T A — Authority: 129
  Cuba hit back at 60 prominent U.S. black leaders who challenged its race record, with island writers, artists and official journalists calling the criticism an attack on their country’s national identity.The five-page signed statement, distributed by Cuban government press officials in an e-mail, defended Cuba’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Clip Job: Five Off-the-Wall Collaborative Performances

  
  Arts Desk — Authority: 143
  There’s more to life than gigs. A handful of area musicians are keeping that notion in mind this weekend, stepping outside their comfort zones for collaborative, one-night-only performances. There’s Zomes , the drone-y project of Lungfish ’s Asa Osborne , which performs tonight at the Writer’s Center ...
  2 weeks ago

• Friday finds

  
  STEVENHARTSITE — Authority: 133
  A fascinating and rather spooky exploration of Chairman Mao’s underground city : a network of tunnels built beneath Beijing in 1969 to protect the city’s inhabitants from the ravages of nuclear war. The tunnels, which were never used and are unknown to most Beijing residents, are now essentially rat-infested ...
  2 weeks ago

• Judith Butler and Cornel West in conversation

  
  The Immanent Frame — Authority: 116
  In a recent symposium held by the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, the Social Science Research Council and the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University, Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, and Cornel West came together to discuss the project of “rethinking secularism.” Today we are ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cornel Wests Biography

  
  King Politics — Authority: 134
  The Loops Kam Williams has an informative interview with author, professor and philosopher Dr. Cornel West . West has a new autobiography out, and despite a tepid review , I look forward to his memoir.
  2 weeks ago

• Can Someone Please Turn Up The Mic?

  
  Blackinformant.com - African-American culture, news commentary, politics — Authority: 434
  (miamiherald.com) A group of prominent African Americans, traditionally sympathetic to the Cuban revolution, have for the first time condemned Cuba, demanding Havana stop its “callous disregard” for black Cubans and declaring that “racism in Cuba . . . must be confronted.” “We know first-hand the ...
  2 weeks ago

• “In essence it is a fawning celebrity profile — one in which reporter and superstar have somehow fused into a single first-person voice.”

  
  The Awl — Authority: 779
  Scott McLemee is unimpressed with Cornel West’s new memoir: “If sketchy in other regards, Brother West is never anything but expansive on how Cornel West feels about Cornel West. He is deeply committed to his committed-ness, and passionately passionate about being full of passion. Various works of art, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Eviscerating Cornel West

  
  Athens & Jerusalem — Authority: 431
  This is an entertaining skewering. Hat-tip Cliopatria.
  2 weeks ago

• Flashback: The MoKelly Report/Political Season Debate of the 2008 Campaign

  
  A Political Season — Authority: 114
  This was just a lot of fun arguing about. Remember back during the campaign when Cornel West got cheesed off at Obama for not going to the King celebrations in Memphis? Well, MoKelly posted on the subject, as did I and I stopped through his blog to comment on it, as that whole incident really frosted my cake. ...
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• World March for Peace: Monday and Tuesday events

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 437
  Monday: March over Brooklyn BridgeMonday afternoon: Delegation meets with Ban Ki Moon at the UNTuesday: Gather with “September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows” at Ground Zero___________________________For Long Island info (ie: taking a train or bus, meeting others) see: here.Bernard Lafayette to lead the ...
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• The Immanent Frame - The power of religion in the public sphere

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 142
  Very interesting lectures. Audio: The power of religion in the public sphere posted by Charles Gelman Four of the world’s leading public intellectuals came together on Thursday, October 22 in the historic Great Hall at Cooper Union to discuss “ Rethinking Secularism .” In an ...
  3 weeks ago

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