I’m rarely receptive to a man I’ve never met introducing himself with a hug, but Dr. Cornel West is a warm man.

Warm, but terrifyingly smart, with a professor’s gaze. He teaches (now at Union Theological Seminary, but has taught at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton), he writes (Race Matters, Democracy Matters, Truth Matters), and goes on TV to talk politics, philosophy, theology, and the general state of things in America, as “public intellectuals” are often asked to do.

In 2024, West ran as a third-party Presidential candidate (more like third parties candidate, he switched a bit). To catch you up on current events, he didn’t win. But his run pissed off people who treated the race as a precious faberge egg, that even the slightest leftist agitation would put in the crushing hand of Donald Tr

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