Cornel West

Cornel West on Howard University’s dropping Classics

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Well said by Cornel West and Jeremy Tate, in response to yet another university’s shrinking its vision: “We must be vigilant and draw the distinction between Western civilization and philosophy on the one hand, and Western crimes on the other. The crimes spring from certain philosophies and certain aspects of the civilization, not all of […]

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Carlin Romano’s America the Philosophical

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Over the years I’ve enjoyed and learned from many of Carlin Romano’s articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education. He can do good philosophical reporting. So I picked up America the Philosophical, and I was disappointed. Romano’s thesis is that the United States is a nation of vigorous philosophical activity and — contrary to the

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