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Article: Jews, blacks, TNR.(The New Republic magazine)(Editorial)
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- March 27, 1995
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The New Republic recently devoted a cover story to an attack on Cornel West, one of America's leading black thinkers and an advocate of black-Jewish reconciliation. In the piece, literary editor and self-described "cultural policeman" Leon Wieseltier scorns the activist and writer: West's writing is "noisy, tedious, slippery . . . humorless, pedantic and self-endeared" and "almost completely worthless." What has West done to deserve this contempt?
West--now a professor of Afro-American studies at Harvard--has been working tirelessly to revive the progressive alliance of blacks and Jews that animated the civil rights movement and, before that, the liberal and left ...
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