Cornel West Releases Resignation Letter from Harvard
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Re: Cornel West Releases Resignation Letter from Harvard
#2I think Harvard has wrapped itself in an echo chamber and views itself as, well, invincible. Nothing can hurt Harvard. Nothing can tarnish its reputation. It doesn’t need anyone, with the money it has in the bank, and I think all of those billions has fulfilled the adage that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Re: Cornel West Releases Resignation Letter from Harvard
#3I think Harvard has wrapped itself in an echo chamber and views itself as, well, invincible. Nothing can hurt Harvard. Nothing can tarnish its reputation. It doesn’t need anyone, with the money it has in the bank, and I think all of those billions has fulfilled the adage that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Did you read the resignation letter? It had pretty much nothing to do with "corruption" or absolute power.
Re: Cornel West Releases Resignation Letter from Harvard
#4Does anyone have a direct link to the text of the letter?
Re: Cornel West Releases Resignation Letter from Harvard
#5Does anyone have a direct link to the text of the letter?
Re: Cornel West Releases Resignation Letter from Harvard
#6His resignation letter chastises the school for not giving enough attention to his mother's death-- he only got two condolences. Does this strike anyone else as a really strange thing to bring up a tally of condolences in a resignation letter?
Re: Cornel West Releases Resignation Letter from Harvard
#7His resignation letter chastises the school for not giving enough attention to his mother's death-- he only got two condolences. Does this strike anyone else as a really strange thing to bring up a tally of condolences in a resignation letter?
Yes. I was wondering if I was misunderstanding what he meant by "public replies."
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#8Harvard still has a divinity school? That's retro.
Re: Cornel West Releases Resignation Letter from Harvard
#9Does anyone have a direct link to the text of the letter?
is an image OK? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6JB3QqWQAMCsyC?format=jpg&name=...
OCR of your image
https://pastebin.com/raw/66mAzqyL
Re: Cornel West Releases Resignation Letter from Harvard
#10He's a celebrity public intellectual. He hasn't pioneered any ideas or theories. He builds departments and plays a ton of politics (both internally at academic institutions and publicly in the American media ecosystem.)
He's a PR intellectual. He gets way too much air time for his contributions to humanity. A boring figure.