Trump has already betrayed working people in terms of making sure, in his view, that Wall Street is in the driver’s seat
Cornel West
Dr. Cornel West, affectionately known to many as Brother West, is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary. Dr. West teaches on the works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, as well as courses in Philosophy of Religion, African American Critical Thought, and a wide range of subjects -- including but by no means limited to, the classics, philosophy, politics, cultural theory, literature, and music. He has a passion to communicate to a vast variety of publics in order to keep alive the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. – a legacy of telling the truth and bearing witness to love and justice.
He has written 20 books and has edited 13. He is best known for his classics, Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and for his memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. His most recent book, Black Prophetic Fire, offers an unflinching look at nineteenth and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies.
Interview on the killing of the three police officers in Baton Rouge and the recent nationwide protests against police brutality
Interview on Bernie Sanders’ neopopulism and Donald Trump’s neofascism
Interview on the state of politics in America
This is the 15th in a series of interviews on race that I am conducting for The Stone. This week’s discussion is…
Shoot us down. We keep coming. Lie on us. We keep coming. Subordinate us. We keep coming. That’s the fightback
On Israel in Palestine — and why Gaza is “the hood on steroids”
In part two of our interview, Dr. Cornel West compares the legacy of President Obama to another Nobel Prize winner, the Rev.…
“We ended up with a Wall Street presidency, a drone presidency”
The United States is now involved in a global terror campaign, largely against the tribal people of the world
