John McWhorter, Cornel West & Robert George – Truth, Faith, and Reason in an Age of Division
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0:00 Intro
1:12 Attacks on the university from within and without
9:50 Ground News ad
11:43 Reshaping institutions by force and by argument
20:56 Critiquing the Gaza War without antisemitism
22:30 Reforming para-academic institutions
32:07 Is there a potential conflict between commitments to truth and commitments to diversity of thought?
39:19 Caught between “casual relativism” and “fierce absolutism”
52:18 Cornel: There is no “mic drop” argument on Gaza or anything else
55:19 The straight-jacket of emotional over-investment
1:00:36 The role of faith in the search for truth
1:10:19 Finding faith beyond reason in Stephen Sondheim
Recorded April 12, 2025
Links and Readings
Robbie and Cornel’s new book, Truth Matters: A Dialogue on Fruitful Disagreement in an Age of Division
Thomas Kuhn’s book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Eugene Genovese’s book, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
Antonio Gramsci’s book, The Prison Notebooks
William Blake’s poem, “London”
Pope John Paul II’s encyclical, Fides et Ratio
Genesis 22, King James Version
Glenn’s memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative
Mandy Patinkin sings “Finishing the Hat” from Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George
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