Speaking of hard to take, C-SPAN Radio has been running an ad for the upcoming Cornel West appearance, constantly, over the past week or so. That means constantly having to hear a 10- or 15-second clip from his rap CD. Boy, is it ridiculous!
Andrew Sullivan has the right take on Cornel West, calling him "pompous."
I don't think Harvard had a Latino Studies department when I was doing my doctoral studies there in the 1970's. I wonder why it would need it, since it has always taught Spanish and Portuguese language and literature in its Romance Languages Department.
Oh, I forgot to mention, that C-SPAN ad calls West a "Harvard intellectual." I guess the pompous character glories in that title. I wonder what they would have done if he had left Harvard.
Overintellectualization to the point of imbecility.