The independent presidential candidate’s petition was denied. Here is Kim Lyons at the Pennsylvania Capital-Star: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling that rejected independent candidate Cornel West’s petition to appear on the November ballot. The one-page, unsigned […]
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Ishmael Reed to Cornel West: “Are you sure you want to help install a dictatorship?”
The work of Ishmael Reed got on my radar screen after he started criticizing Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical Hamilton. In fact, Reed was so critical of Hamilton that he wrote an entire play titled The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda (2019). […]
Why is Cornel West broke?
Edward Carson, a history teacher and Dean of Multicultural Education at The Governor’s Academy in Byfield, Mass., recently wrote this on his Facebook page: Cornel West and I are no longer on speaking terms. I am still a fan and […]
Cornel West announces his running mate. It’s Melina Abdullah
In case you forgot, the Black intellectual Cornel West is running for president as an independent. Today he chose his running mate. She is Melina Abdullah, a professor of Pan-African Studies at the University of California-Los Angeles. Here is her […]
Trump vs. Biden (and don’t forget RFK, Stein, and West)
It’s official. Donald Trump and Joe Biden secured their party’s nomination for president last night. But there are still so many questions that need to be answered between now and November. Here are a few: Will Trump be a convicted […]
Jill Stein is running for president again
Stein just announced her bid for the Green Party nomination. You may recall that earlier this year Cornel West was running to be the Green Party nominee. He is now running as an independent, clearing the way for Stein. Here […]
Quinnipiac: RFK Jr. gets 22% as an independent in a 3-way presidential race
In the 1992 presidential race Ross Perot, who ran as an independent, got 18.9% of the vote. Perot’s candidacy cost George H.W. Bush a second term as president and got Bill Clinton elected. Today’s national Quinnipiac poll (this polling service […]
Cornel West drops the Green Party. He will run for president as an independent
We’ve been keeping an eye on the democratic socialist presidential candidacy of Cornel West. First, he was the candidate of the People’s Party. Then he was the candidate of the Green Party. Now he is running as an independent. Get […]
Cornel West is at 2% in a new Wall Street Journal poll
According to a new poll released today by The Wall Street Journal, Joe Biden (46%) and Donald Trump (46%) are running neck and neck in a potential 2024 presidential matchup. But when support for Green Party candidate Cornel West is […]
Cornel West vs. Bernie Sanders
Democratic socialists disagree over Joe Biden in 2024: I am a West fan, but I lean toward Sanders here. There are certain times in one’s life–hopefully only a few times–when doctrinal purity must be set aside for the greater good […]
Is Cornel West a Marxist?
Conservative political philosopher Robert George defends his friend and presidential candidate:
Michael Tomasky on the “quixotic” and “corrosive” Cornel West and RFK Jr. campaigns for president
The editor of The New Republic thinks Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West, and No Labels “are effectively surrogates for Donald Trump’s 2024 bid.” Here is a taste of his piece: You might think, in a two-party democracy where the […]
James Carville: “The only thing that Dr. West’s candidacy can do is help elect Donald Trump”
No one expects Cornel West to become the next president of the United States, but Anderson Cooper’s recent interview with West reveals why it is hard for a candidate of moral purity and prophetic sensibility to govern. Politics almost always […]
Cornel West explains his “jazz man” presidential candidacy
Here is West’s conversation with writer and Presbyterian minister Christopher Hedges: Some key West quotes from the Hedges interview: “I’ve always viewed myself as a jazz man in the world of ideas as well as a jazz man in politics, […]
Cornel West is now seeking the nomination of the Green Party
Last week West was running as the nominee of the People’s Party. Now he is seeking the Green Party nomination, a party on the ballot in more states than the People’s Party. So far he is the only declared Green […]
Cornel West is running for president
Here is Maggie Astor at The New York Times: Cornel West, the progressive activist and professor, announced a presidential campaign on Monday with the People’s Party, a third party led by a former campaign staff member for Senator Bernie Sanders. […]
Highlights from Harper’s forum on liberalism
I finally finished the Harper’s forum, “Is Liberalism Worth Saving?” The forum featured Patrick Deneen, Francis Fukuyama, Deirdre McCloskey, and Cornel West. Here are a few things I highlighted: Deneen on populism: The other form of populism that liberalism fears […]
Episode 103: Spiritual Socialists
Does the American Left have religion problem? What can progressives learn from people like Dorothy Day, Ignazio Silone, Henry Wallace, Staughton Lynd, and Cornel West? Many of these thinkers and activists offered a powerful vision for a moral and just […]
Cornel West on identity politics
West’s thoughts here come from the transcript of a conversation on identity politics between West, philosopher Judith Butler, journalist Glenn Greenwald, and Simon Critchley. The entire transcript is at Public Seminar. Here is West: I want to begin, really, with […]
Cornel West talks with The New Yorker
The noted moral philosopher talked with Vinson Cunningham of The New Yorker. It’s a wide-ranging conversation that covers seminary students, Harvard, public philosophy, his forthcoming Gifford Lectures, Barack Obama, Democratic Socialists of America, free speech, American imperialism, Ukraine, and grief. […]