I met Cornel West in San Francisco at the November 11 American Academy of Religion. I find that I am appreciating his style even more now as I move beyond conventional politics and conventional academia.
Preach it, Brother West!
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Nice, Chris. I do think this kind of provocative style has an important role to play in public discourse, and as a check on more conventional academic discourse if nothing else….
In many ways, it is a role once played mostly by clergy.