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May 9, 2011

The Fool Speaks: Paul Gilroy, professor and Public Idiot, London School of Economics

Even in their last shaking moments of senility, the Brits are always good for a laugh: "There are public intellectuals in America. I think my friends Cornel West and Skip Gates are those kinds of people." -- Paul Gilroy in Britain's intellectuals: leading thinkers have their say | Culture | The Observer

Posted by Vanderleun at May 9, 2011 8:33 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Henry Adams, in his fifty years living in Great Britian, finally learned that it was often impossible to distinguish within that class between what is ambiguous, convoluted, or impenetrable, and genuine madness or senility.

Posted by: james wilson at May 10, 2011 7:52 AM

I always considered Cornel West more of a pubic intellectual, in that he knows dick.

Posted by: Blastineau at May 10, 2011 1:24 PM

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