Cornel West – The Black Intellectual in a Declining Empire

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Video Links

0:00 Glenn and Cornel’s early correspondence

2:20 Cornel: “Brother Glenn ain’t never been just a black conservative”

9:34 Ground News ad

11:10 One-eyed and two-eyed reason

19:33 The Loury family legacy

25:01 Does race still matter?

34:32 The black intellectual in a declining empire

45:56 Keeping nihilism at bay in the black community

51:42 Keep the funk, and die with a smile on your face

55:40 The Democratic Party plantation

Recorded July 18, 2025

Links and Readings

Glenn’s memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative

Toni Morrison’s book, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

Ralph Ellison’s book, Shadow and Act

Thomas Sowell’s book, The Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggle

Cornel’s book, Race Matters

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