The Sad But Self-Inflicted Fall of Cornel West

Goodbye to the Brother

Michael Eric Dyson is on the money: There’s a new model now of black intellectual leadership, and West is yesterday’s news.

Published Apr. 22 2015 5:25AM EDT

Michael Eric Dyson’s blistering takedown of Cornel West in The Ghost of Cornel West for The New Republic not only closed the door on a decades-long friendship that arguably led the way in black American thought at the end of the 20th century, but also displayed how the roles of...

Barrett Holmes Pitner

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The Sad But Self-Inflicted Fall of Cornel West

Michael Eric Dyson is on the money: There’s a new model now of black intellectual leadership, and West is yesterday’s news.

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Barrett Holmes Pitner