And for once, to say something good about The New Republic and Leon Wieseltier, his review of West, was devastating, as was Adolph Reed's piece in the Viilage Voice. After the TNR piece an outraged Upper West Side or Georgetown (can't remember exactly which wired, connected upper class zip code) society woman similiar to the Dean Acheson widow Clinton appointed to Ambassador of France, in influence, wrote TNR letter to the editor to protest at the tone and substance. And from the website of another egoswollen politico, from the neo-con swamp, David Horowitz, frontpagemag.com , reported once that Harvard pays Cornel in the multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars. Star power.
Michael Pugliese
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